So I’m staying in a hospital right now and my free Opera GX VPN is blocked, as if nothing loads when it’s on. And when I turn it off all the websites work just fine. I also can’t play Minecraft, but I guess they could have blocked it because of serevers with gambling. I’m not sure though.
Do you know what may be the reason for these issues?
Pretty normal for a hospital to block VPN connections on guest/public wifis. Maybe your MAC address has been blocked. Tons of factors.
their network their rules.
many businesses and establishments with free wifi block VPNs
Hospital IT here. Hope you get to feeling better soon!
Our guest WIFI is locked down so that all who want to use it can use it with reasonable speed and connectivity as well as to avoid security/compromise, liability and legal issues stemming from people doing things on the internet. So we block gaming, streaming services that aren’t the standard YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, etc… and VPN stuff as well as download/torrenting sites and stuff like that.
If VPN is that important to you, I would talk to your nurse and see if they can talk to their IT team and ask about the guest WIFI and if there are any types of blocks or anything. Otherwise, you may just have to work with what you got. It might be your computer’s way of telling you to get some rest instead… 
You will just have to use your data allowance that comes from your phone provider. I didn’t play games but the last time I was in hospital for a while I upgraded my data allowance
Wouldn’t try to get around it if the basic tricks some VPN apps use don’t work.
I read on here a while back about someone who ordered a 5g Internet modem to their hospital room.
I have 5g home Internet at the moment and specifically right now most carriers are starting to crack down on modems being used at locations that they’re not registered so be careful doing the same, it might be easier to just modify your computer’s settings to hide hotspot usage and stick your phone in the window.
Use mobile data instead. If your data is expensive switch to an MVNO that uses your network once you’re out of hospital. You will save a ton and may be able to use it just as much as WiFi.
I’d have my dad set up a vpn server on our home network and connect to that
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Been at a hospital for 4 hours for our baby and the staff haven’t even decided how they want to start the induction. While it’s nice to have a new project, setting up a vpn proxy for 443 over my mobile’s ssh seems like something I shouldn’t have to waste time doing just to get some work done while we continue our long wait. I understand DLP but if PHI has made it’s way to a guest network you have bigger concerns, and for bandwidth just limit it by client and be done with it.
Maybe, but I read it as “Doctor IT”
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