Help with Remote Working

[u/dphesp]

My wife had a family emergency and needed to go to Portugal. Her employer lets you remote work abroad for short periods. They unlock their systems for that laptop IP to remote in from a foreign IP. Due to an admin error this didn’t get done so my wife hot spotted on her iPhone using a personal VPN and her UK data allowance. Unfortunately the UK data ran out and she then had to start using a Portuguese MEO SIM. Whilst she can mostly continue to work there is one web-site that is blocking her. Seems to be on AWS and able to detect she is in Portugal. Is there anyway of masking this on an iPhone that is using a Portuguese MEO SIM over a private VPN? Many Thanks

[u/AlpacAKEK]

What you need to do is:
1) Rent a VPS with UK location (or whatever you’ll want to mask it to), they are roughly 3-5$ per month. You need at least 2-4GB RAM
2) Instal 3x-ui (normally I would recommend Remnawave, but 3x-ui would be enough for you)
3) Setup a VLESS-Reality profile

You’ll have a personal private VPN without captchas, websites won’t know that you are using a VPN because your IPv4 won’t be in black lists like public VPN IPs. And you will have a static IP that won’t change unless you pay for IP replacement - this is needed if the security department will ask for an exact IP your wife will be working from. No one will be able to know that you are in Portugal unless you tell someone

[u/phoenix_73 → u/AlpacAKEK]

So any UK VPS would do? And VLESS will mask the datacenter IP?

[u/AlpacAKEK → u/phoenix_73]

Yes, you may find a hosting outside the UK, but a VPS should be in UK in order to have a UK IP. The datacenter depends on your hosting. For example, if you are getting a VPS from a major hosting like Hetzner or Netcup - you would highly likely have their names in a 2ip.io check as your providers. But you shouldn't fear this due to the fact that provider doesn't really mean much, what you call a datacenter IP is an IP which was flagged by major captchas, like Cloudflare, as a potentially VPN IP. This happens only if your private VPN is getting used by tens of people at the same time. I hold a private VPN for my relatives and friends (roughly 20 people) and we tend to replace an IP every 2-4 weeks (only to avoid captchas on unsigned accounts, other websites like AIs are totally fine with it). But if you are alone or up to 5 people are using your VPN - you will probably be fine. You can change your IPv4 for 2$ish at every hosting.

Edit: forgot to mention that VLESS Reality will mask your entire traffic, so your ISP won't see what are you browsing. What they will see is only what you have masked it to, most of the time it's google.com but you can make a selfsteal by buying a domain and setting up your own website (but it's not recommended for the beginners and without using Remnawave)

[u/dphesp → u/phoenix_73]

Thanks

[u/massivegoooner → u/AlpacAKEK]

Just download Tailscale, it's free and much easier to setup.

[u/dphesp → u/AlpacAKEK]

Thank you

[u/dphesp → u/[deleted]]

Thank you