Blocking VPNs means they are stealing data
Are VPNs also blocked on T-Mobile hotspot?
I used to use this to test VPNs but I always get connection timeouts now.
Edit: this was my first time actually doing some research and it looks like this is a known issue with always-on-vpn and t-mobile. Looks like you need to enable support for IKEv2 Fragmentation.
might i suggest VPN Alternatives like Zerotier?
I’m not sure if it will work or not, but NordVPN has an obfuscated VPN connection option that just sends the traffic over HTTPS to avoid some VPN blocking systems. Would be interesting to see if there are enterprise VPNs that can do something similar.
I only ever use my hotspot anyways, VPN is secure but never say never.
We always have issues at hotels for staff. Most hotels block VPN for some reason and that causes a lot of issue. My staff have to go to Starbucks to VPN in
So glad we moved to OneDrive and don’t need them as much for files although some apps still require it.
Thanks for the heads up. They’ll replaced with others that do.
I’d love to know why. Smells like data selling is going on, cant sell captured traffic from a VPN.
When you aren’t at work, you are supposed to be in the pub drinking until sleepytime.
Just get the user to use their company provided mobile device with data plan and teather to that. Hotel WiFi sucks no matter how much you pay for it.
T-Mobile also blocks VPNs. And the sad thing is it took me a couple hours of troubleshooting before finding that out. 
What’s a Premeir Inn?
This. Let the company checkbook speak for you. It speaks louder and has better arguments anyways.
Not sure if they’re listed in fedrooms (government rates) but that’s a non-starter. Even personally, I have reasons to VPN back to my home network.
I used to work at a university that used Gapps before it was Google Workspace. The president really wanted a relationship with the Chinese government so they could bring in those lucrative exchange students. I had multiple people come to me about the presidents email, calendar, and everything else not working while in china. So I explained that China blocks Google. There’s nothing we can support that will solve the problem. I was honestly blown away how few people were aware of that fact since it was all over the news around that time.
So lucky for him we had some real dumbasses that worked elsewhere in IT. First someone had him start using the VPN until he ran into networks that blocked VPN. When I found out afterwards I told my boss the president was lucky because using a VPN to circumvent the Google ban could be an imprisonable offense. Next someone created a yahoo mail account and synced them with imap or something. I explained that it is definitely not something we can manage.
I eventually told my boss that this whole thing was a management problem and not an IT problem. If the leadership wanted a close relationship with China then they should reevaluate our relationship with Google. Of course that wasn’t on the table because we weren’t going to replace the Google services without spending substantially more money. So like so many conflicts between management and IT, the problem was that management wanted their cake and to eat it to.
Just check if Premier Inn has indirect Chinese entity ownership.
Would they be owned by a Chinese company, perchance?
This could be a way to force unsecure comms on their network.
Yep this. You tell me your chain blocks VPN? Ok, no one at my company will be staying there again.
Ageee. Everywhere I have worked mandate you don’t use captive portals or hotel WiFi due to security threats. All staff issued handsets with unlimited data anyways.
was only allowed to use Premier Inn
“I’m sorry, boss, I can’t connect to the VPN. I was instructed to only stay at Premier, who blocks all VPN connections, as I advised. You’ll have to wait for me to reach a client site and of course, I’ll be billing these hours.”