Work has provided me with a laptop that I now use for both work and leisure. I’ll be going away for two weeks during the World Cup and I want to be able to stream it abroad. But this laptop doesn’t let me download VPNs. Is there anything I can do?
This is the correct answer: Contact your work IT department and ask them directly.
You shouldn’t use a VPN in order to compromise your employer’s desire to keep their company secure, which includes customer records, etc. Don’t contribute to these constant data breaches that hurt everyday consumers.
Could do it on a network level. Plenty of vpn travel routers you could use. Gli-Net comes to mind.
Get a travel router and a solid provider that lets you connect to a VPN - dedicated VPN’s would be best…
You could also stream using the browser and you could use a browser PROXY as an alternative?
Try to download the setup of the VPN onto a different computer, move the file to USB, then transfer the setup to your business computer? Hopefully your business laptop will install the file from the USB.
Why not get a tablet to watch the games?
Thanks for that. You are entirely correct tbf. Do you not think the other commenter’s solution of a router VPN is acceptable? Wouldn’t be circumventing any prohibited laptop activity as far as I can ascertain.
Never heard of that concept, I’ll check that out, thanks.
That’s actually a pretty good idea. I almost wanted to say to OP “get your own machine”, but this is both elegant and effective.
Also, everything you can put OpenWRT on will do the job. Some of these are really budget devices.
Could do, it seems like a lot of money to drop though.
Should get my own machine aye. But I’m a cheapskate and don’t want to lug two laptops around either.