I am aware of the guide to VPNs and it is awesome. Thank you for this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/wiki/vpn/
After reading the above guide I was thinking of going with “Option three” and set up a server at my relative’s house to be most secure.
However, lately I’ve been getting promotion offers in my email for NordVPN dedicated IP service. From what I have researched it is good for adding your IP to a database whitelist so you can work from abroad.
However, how competent would an IT team have to be to detect a NordVPN dedicated IP? The company I work for is not some Fortune 500 giant.
It is a dedicated IP afterall so wouldn’t it be more difficult to detect than an IP you share with 1000 other people? If not NordVPN, is there a place that will sell me a residential IP that is not compromised and safe?
I will do option 3 from the guide on VPNs if I have to, but I would rather not trouble my relative if I can help it.
Thanks in advance.
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The benefit of setting up a server at your relatives house is you appear as a residential IP address, a nordvpn dedicated IP would still appear as a datacenter IP address and therefore any IT department that cares to look would know immediately.
In general Nord is also not a great company security wise, if you go that route use something like Mullvad or Airvpn.
Best to run your own VPN on a raspberry pi with PiVPN or similar for this purpose.
Most of the IPs from VPN companies are flagged. Do not buy from them. Put the server in a relative’s house.
You might get away with it, but a competent IT department will likely know the IPs of major VPN providers. A dedicated IP doesn’t change, but it still comes from a datacenter. There are a few providers that will rent out “static residential” IPs. Next to option 3, these are your best bet. However, they tend not to be that cheap on a monthly basis. Also, whether or not you can easily get one depends on the country you are in. There are more providers in the USA than anywhere else.
I did this for a while because I happened to be familiar with how my team checked IPs and knew it was lax, but then my job responsibilities required use of a company VPN for certain tasks which necessitated option 3 and I had to urgently fly back to the US to set up the equipment which suuuucked. Would recommend just doing it right from the start.
Torguard.net sells a dedicated residential IP as an addon and while it’s not cheap coupons for half off are available. You don’t need to figure out how to set up a server at your relatives house that is unnecessary as there are many options for residential IPs out there which will resolve to century or Verizon in the US
I use a dedicated residential IP service from VPNArea
I ran the blacklist test on it from whatismyipaddress.com and every single one is clear
However the website does list it as being from a data center
It hasn’t raised any flags at my company of a couple thousand people, but I don’t think we have extensive IT security measures in place really
You want this: Digital Nomad VPN Tutorial using Wireguard or Tailscale
Do NOT use a commercial VPN. With the exception of StarVPN as a last resort.
Do you know of any dedicated IP services that would not appear as a datacenter? Maybe selling residential IPs?
What are some good providers that will rent out “static residential” IPs? Thank you.
I’m able to use my static IP service IP with the company vpn no problem
Will look into Torguard. Thanks.
There are hundreds, (google residential proxy, ISP proxy, etc) but they’re sold as proxies. I’ve never heard of a VPN provider doing this. Residential proxy providers are also hit or miss and most charge by the gigabyte, even if you find a good provider, proxies are harder to configure correctly.
Ideally you want to VPN the traffic from your router to avoid having VPN/proxy software on your PC and some traffic possibly not going through the VPN. I don’t think this is possible with a proxy but I could be wrong.
Set up your own VPN at a friend or relative’s house and do it properly, or if you want to risk it, just use mullvad.
what vpn provider did you use?
I’m not due to the nature of my company VPN, but good for you I guess?
What did you end up doing? hows it working so far?
Is there much benefit of using mullvad over tor browser? I did check the site, looks like it’s just a more comprehensive browser?
This is not correct maybe your info is outdated see my comment below. While my setup is not perfect it mostly works and cost 50 a year
Tor browser is great but only routes your browser traffic anonymously; not the whole machine’s traffic. Tor also is a lot slower than a VPN due to how it works, and you’ll be blocked on general websites far more aggressively than a VPN.
You might have found Mullvad browser, you don’t need that, look for Mullvad VPN.