I am from India and I have been working from home since covid. My office doesn’t resume until September and I am planning to spend a couple of months in London. My company has a policy of not allowing its employees to work from outside India.
I use BIG-IP Edge on my work laptop to connect to my company’s network. I don’t want my office to know that I am not in the country.
Do I need to buy a VPN router and set up a VPN connection on the router or is it okay if I don’t use a VPN service to hide my location since I will be logging in through BIG-IP on my work laptop.
Will they find out that I am in the UK even though I am logging in through BIG IP on my work laptop.
Not exactly related to VPN and torrents, but in your case I’d probably get a raspberry pi and set up a VPN at home which you can connect from abroad. This way you’ll have same residential IP as before and you can bypass any security checks they might have.
Then yes, getting a portable Wi-Fi router connected to said home VPN.
That said, can’t really advise going through with this. You may lose your job if you’re found out and I’ve seen this happen before. Even with VPN plenty can go wrong. Good luck
Yes, a vpn router is an excellent choice. Solid choice. Inexpensive and easy too.
You have many options for routers and vpn services. If you don’t have high throughput requirements (high speed), then a travel router (google it) would suffice, and use any major vpn service (like mullvad) that has servers everywhere.
If you need a higher performance router, you’ll spend hundreds of dollars, but there are choices there too. Pre-built ones cost more, but custom (do it yourself) with linux are faster.
If you don’t want to use a known vpn provider, you can use a VPS provider (like vultr or linode) and rent a remote vps server (usually $5/month) then install linux and openvpn or wireguard on it, plenty of how-to’s out there for this. The VPS providers usually have a pre-built vpn server you can install. This way, you’ll have your own private vpn server.
I’ve done all of the above. They all work. Any will do what you need easily.
Can you rent virtual PCs in India? That’s similar to those workplaces, where you just log into over a browser, in order to work, while the OS is running from some server farm and your PC is just a client, no matter how slow/fast it is. Similar to NVidia’s Shield for gaming.
So, beside using a private-VPN through your home address, I would consider having a plan B, in case you have no one, who can look after your devices, while you are absent.
Thank you that was helpful. I have connected my work computer from UK before and it worked fine but it was only for a very short time. There were no problems. Does this mean it’s okay not to use VPN or should I still use one just to be safe?
Also is it possible to get a static IP from a VPN provider and install it on my personal laptop. Then use that laptop to tether to my work computer. Does the VPN settings get shared?
Well then before he leaves the country, he can always install a vpn server at home, and connect to it remotely. More work, and more technical, but will definitely work.
I don’t think they are extremely anal about it. I did connect my work computer from the UK before but for a very short time. It was working as normal. I am also unable to install anything on my work computer. Can I still use VPS and connect to one?