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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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

I had the same situation, my hotel used fortinet and they blocked almost everything

Even VPNs that used to work in China were blocked

I used my phone 4g hotspot to initialize the tailscale connection, which was blocked, I chose my server as an exit point, then I switched back to the WiFi. Amazingly, once logged in to tailscale, it kept connected to my server.

Then for added safety I used my kasm install to stream a Firefox browser running on my server

I don't really understand this, why would a hotel pay thousands and thousands of euro for a "Chinese internet experience" that is going to piss off every single customer