I’m travelling for the moment, and usually I just access my home network with tailscale and it has always worked flawlessly. But the hotel I’m staying at apparently blocks VPN connections, I can’t use my regular VPN for work on their network either and I’ve tried obfuscation,different ports etc. nothing seems to work and it never connects.
How can I circumvent this, if at all? I’m staying for several weeks, so this is a pretty bug issue.
It would be absolutely bizarre if you couldn’t connect with WireGuard port
and Wireguard obfuscation
set to Automatic
. Things to try first:
- Connect without your VPN and try to access a single website like the theguardian.com
- Once that’s working, enable your VPN and that should do it.
- If you still can’t get connected, try switching out different countries. Each country listed corresponds to an IP to which your machine will try to connect over a benign port like 443 – so blocking that sort of traffic would be mad unless the IP is explicitly blocked. Therefore, driving to different country targets offers a different IP every time. They’d have to know Mulvad’s whole list and block them all.
If the above somehow doesn’t work, Mulvad offers support through which you can get a temporary Server IP override
. You can enter that in the bottom portion of your app’s settings.