Is it possible to hide your location from company VPN installed on the laptop? In the past this hasn’t been an issue because I didn’t need to connect to the company VPN in order to access email or chat so I simply connected to Nord VPN. But at this company, in order to access outlook email and teams, you have to be connected to the company VPN - Cisco ANyconnect. Has anyone gotten around this issue and can suggest any real and workable ways to do this? Or is this not possible?
Don’t listen to the haters, do it! Travel router with vpn client to vpn server back home, turn off wifi and always use wired connection to your travel router. GL.iNet has some fantastic options.
Be free!
Use a small, cheap, external travel router to connect your PC to Nord VPN. Then use your company VPN on your PC, and your company VPN will report your location as wherever the Nord VPN server is. Something like an AR300m16 from GL iNet would do.
This question keeps coming up. The simple answer is “Don’t”.
Nomad with the knowledge and cooperation of your employer or find another employer whose policies are more to your liking. There are so many reasons, the very least of which is getting fired when they find out. There’s also the fact that companies talk to each other (you didn’t know that?), cyber security laws, tax laws, international copyright and trade secrets laws, getting on watch lists that you don’t want to be on… just don’t.
Why would you want to?
Could you use a jump box? Remote into to a VM or physical machine in the right area and VPN from it?
Thanks, Im a total novice with this, so excuse the dumb questions. Are you saying you connect to Nord vpn through the travel router and then when your company laptop is connected to that router and on the company VPN it will go through Nord VPN’s location? Have you tried this and it has worked for you reliably?
For those of us traveling, its just not only our companies or customers that seem to have issues with someone using a foreign IP address. There are also issues when dealing with banks, online stores, service providers, financial institutions, state and federal government sites, … Many sites block or put up obstacles when they see a foreign IP address.
I don’t believe that everyone I connect to on the internet needs to know where I am today, so I use various tools that allows me to change my IP address to another location.
Homie tryna commit tax fraud lmaoooo
that’s none of your business. answer the question or buzz off, thanks!
sorry, can you explain that in layman terms/more details? im a novice with this type of stuff…
Yes, you first configure the travel router to send all traffic to Nord VPN. I checked and Nord VPN has a support page that shows you how to do this with GL iNet routers. Then connect to the company VPN as usual.
I use a GL iNet travel router while on travel that I connect to some VPN servers that I run for friends and family on cloud systems in the US, as I don’t trust any of the commercial VPN providers. I regularly use a VPN on my PC to access another site through this router, and its been very stable, sometimes connected for an entire day. So in my case, this is working fine, but I did spend a lot of time setting this up and testing it before I started traveling several years ago.
I’m not a networking expert, but, my thought is you create an AWS or Azure account and launch a Virtual Machine instance in whatever region you need to be in. Then you’d use something like Remote Desktop, if you are running Windows, to connect to this VM. You’d treat this VM as your work computer. You’d install all your software there including the company VPN software. When you connect to the VPN, if it reports your location, it should be reporting the location of the VM. Again, not a network engineer so I’m not 100% sure they wouldn’t be able to detect this.
Interesting. ill explore this. thanks for your idea!
Remote Desktop
RDP is a brilliant /s idea for people on the edge of the Internet.
RDP is a brilliant /s idea for people on the edge of the Internet.
Someone posted an ad hominum attack about my comment and then seems to have thought better of it. Clearly absolutely no understanding of RDP.
Microsoft claims 5 - 8 Mbps for RDP. The reality is more like 10-15 Mbps. Multiple monitors? It goes up. If you’re sitting somewhere remote, you’re WiFi connection may be 50 or 100 Mbps, but that’s just you to the router. Backhaul (the actual connection to the Internet) may be 1.5 Mbps shared with everyone connected. That simply isn’t tenable.
Consider of the recent thread about Internet to Bali and the dependence on a subsea cable that goes down sometimes. With RDP your computer with all your work on it is at the other end of that connection. When Internet drops all your resources go with it. You can’t even edit material you’ve already developed. It doesn’t matter if that’s code or a marketing campaign. It’s gone until you can connect.
All that assumes your remote node is running. If that computer hangs up you need someone to cycle the power and reboot (there are technical work arounds that allow remote power cycling but they aren’t happening in your old college roommates closet hanging off Comcast without knowledge that would obviate the original question and suggestion). Are you going to text your old buddy at work, or wake him up, for that?
RDP could work from San Fransisco or Charlottesville or Cheltenham or Brussels or anywhere hanging off gigabit fiber. It’s not tenable from Martinique or Bali or most of the places people here on r/digitalnomad talk about going. It absolutely increases the chances of getting caught.
If all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail. RDP is a hammer, and not a nice one with a titanium head and a maple handle. RDP is inefficient and wasteful of resources and not robust on the edge of the Internet.
The answer is simple. Don’t lie to your employer or your customers.
I wouldn’t suggest it if you can do your work locally, but RDP isn’t terrible for remote work. I often have to RDP into remote dev servers on the East Coast and have had no issues working in them from Hawaii and Western Europe so far. You do need to be more careful about internet speeds at your workspaces, but as long as it’s halfway decent it’s not a problem. Double VPNing can be a bitch with it sometimes.
You make my point. If you aren’t hanging off serious connections to the Internet RDP is a really bad idea.
Ah I think I misread you then. Yeah it definitely limits you to areas with good infrastructure.