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I mostly just use iVPN for using dirty wifi connections in hotels and stuff.
Just use Mullvad
Oh, that was something else I was going to look at - setting up my PC to be remotely accessible from overseas - how best to do that securely?
Install Tailscale on everything... Tailscale is both a VPN client and VPN server, it uses Wireguard inside, and it has an external authentication which creates the encrypted distributed hash table that allows for auto-discovery of the other devices associated to that account.
Meaning a home machine with Tailscale running, and a remote machine with Tailscale running see each other and can tell you an IP address of the other machine.
In this default mode... so long as you have things exposed on the machines, i.e. remote desktop, ssh access, file sharing, etc... then this is all now available using the IPs they advertise.
Default mode = your LAN just went global.
But you can also do more things... like configure one to be an exit node (i.e. your home machine), which allows the other (the remote one) to route all traffic via it.
Exit node mode = one of your machines is now a traditional VPN for your other machines.
And you can still go further, you can configure an exit node to also grant access to things that machine can see like the local LAN... i.e. the exit node can be configured to also share 192.168.1.x
Exit node + allow local access = Traditional VPN + you have a jump box to a local network.
And it's all through one binary, and unbelievably simple to configure.
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Just use Mullvad
Urgh, change. My ivpn runs out in July so I guess I could look at swapping. Looks like it has its own client - I take it I can run it on Android and Windows? Does it have London exit node? Aussie?
Ok, Tailscale sounds quite useful. I don't have much of a local network that I'd need to access, I just wanted to be able to say, dump photos onto my PC from overseas or pull a file from the PC and maybe remote onto the PC to view a browser tab I'd left open and forgotten some info from.
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I've installed this on a few things recently and, as you say, it is very simple and just seems to work. Much easier than messing about with OpenVPN and generating users and stuff.
The only issue I have is that you can't use it without admin rights (Windows). I've had a look and can't spot any portable options or anything. I don't suppose you've come across the same thing and have a solution?
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Finally got around to testing Tailscale.
Neat. Can RDP onto my desktop from my laptop via its allocated IP.
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I mostly just use iVPN for using dirty wifi connections in hotels and stuff. So, less paranoid use case, just a bit of protection. I was thinking of just going to the iVPN app so I didn't have to refresh their profiles when they get updated (I noticed in Belgium most of my profiles no longer worked).
I do sometimes use it to get foreign content but not very often.
Oh, that was something else I was going to look at - setting up my PC to be remotely accessible from overseas - how best to do that securely?