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.

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Usually it can be solved by talking to hotel stuff. you are paying for that service and can expect it be suitable for any legal use.

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Talking to hotel staff. About networking. Yeah… uh… Good luck!

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This will never be “solved” by hotel staff.

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When you use someone else’s internet, there’s nothing you can really do. Maybe rent a VPS and set it up as relay.

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Try mullvad use different ports, use their circumvention approaches.

Use your cell phone mobile data

Talk to the hotel, tell them you cannot connect to your corporate vpn, ask if they have a workaround

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I’ve used mullvad but that can’t punch through either no matter what. Unfortunately I don’t have enough mobile data abroad to fuel my streaming needs for the entire duration of my trip.

I’ll talk to the reception when I get back to the hotel I guess…it’s really frustrating and I hate using hotel WiFi without a VPN.

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What country are you in? China?

Go to mullvad settings and choose random ports

Try 53, 80, 443 etc

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Not OP, but my ISP blocks those :)

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They probably are likely using DPI

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Just Czech republic, I’ve already tried this in mullvad, it never connects.

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I’ve had this issue many times as well. I’ve found changing the MTU would help since it seems some filter specific ranges. Doesn’t always work but I’ve had more success than failure doing so

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I’ll give that a go

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MTU 1280 fixes all MTU problems, at a cost to performance.

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It’s a headache most of the time so you might consider purchasing a local SIM card for 4/5G connection instead (and share connection via mobile phone) in the future.

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