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.
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
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.
What country are you in? China?
Go to mullvad settings and choose random ports
Try 53, 80, 443 etc
Just Czech republic, I’ve already tried this in mullvad, it never connects.
When you use someone else’s internet, there’s nothing you can really do. Maybe rent a VPS and set it up as relay.
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
This was years ago, but I had a similar issue of not being able to SSH in a hotel. I talked to the front desk and they were able to grant me access to a different network that didn’t have that blocked. I can’t remember whether I had to pay for it or not…
Have you passed their captive portal before turning on the VPN?
I haven’t encountered a captive portal at all. I can use the internet just fine without VPN.