So the wifi supplier wants to sell your data as well
Corkscrew always works.
Why would anyone trust why public hotel Wi-Fi or networking in the first place? I carry my own hotspot, and still run VPN over it…
Is this something recent? I was able to use ProtonVPN while in a Premier Inn hotel back in october.
No one seems to have mentioned “captive portals” yet.
Your vpn/device won’t connect to the captive portal for the wifi and the network wont route traffic until you have signed in via the portal so you can’t work.
Your it may provide ways around captive portals so you can connect, but it’s definitely “a thing”
Are they blocking VPNs or only allowing port 80/443? I ask this as I run a few reasonably large sites with byod and we do this just to try and keep a bit of a handle on all the stuff people try and get up too, it does however have the added bonus (in my case) of stopping most vpns from connecting (stuff like Nord etc) and it is specifically as they are edu sites and whilst we don’t do ssl decryption on byod we do apply a base level of content filtering which they would bypass using a vpn. Am I ‘the kill joy’? Yes, but, before me they didn’t have any byod so you know, could be worse. Perhaps they are doing the same at premier inn?
Ummm….I know this was a while ago, but I work at premier inn, and they don’t block VPNs… I’m using one right now while also on their free wifi to message this
I can see the reasoning behind blocking something like PIA or Nord. It’s silly, but I see it.
Blocking any VPN though is, like you said, shortsighted.
Is this your VPN back to the office?
I don’t know what premier inn is, but there are several ways around this.
As some already mentioned, you can use 443 available vpn providers.
If they are blocked, you can rent a tiny vps for 1-2$ per month and simply host a proxy for your vpn on it. Should defy all measurements they took to block out the vpn.
You guys use hotel wifi?
Would wireguard to my home network still work?
I bet it’s insurance. Some none tech people have said do you allow VPN? If yes no insurance because it’s what hackers use. So legal bans VPNs.
Have you tried seeing if it’s your brand of VPN? Get away from L2TP, it’s about as secure as an old, brown paper bag. Why not hide your traffic? IKEv2 I think is the current contender for most secure, but it still uses UDP 500 so I can spot and stop that pretty quick. Maybe SSL VPN? the downside is that you need a client app that runs on the remote endpoint to create the connection. There’s OpenVPN that has client connect binaries rolled into different flavors, but you’re still going to need client software of some sort because the protocol isn’t native to windows and I’m too lazy to Google it for Mac or Linux.
But the benefit of SSL VPN is that you can hide in a stream of 443, which nobody should be stupid and try to MITM attack or block your packets. I did have one hotel that shut down 443 to known VPN IPs, somehow my IP got on the list. Found out that I could send DNS requests without them being molested, moved my SSL VPN to 53, laughed, carried on with my work.
This isn’t true. I was at one last year, and used mullvad.net perfectly fine.
They realized people using VPNs can bypass bandwidth limiters and DPI stats, and they apparently care more about what you’re doing online than the convenience of your stay.
Really, was in a premiere inn few weeks back and used vpn no problem
I’m confused why companies are still using VPNs in 2024.
reddit bans vpns too
I have yet to have my personal VPN I use my restricted by any meaningful “ban”