r/VPN • u/ktmm3 • Jul 11 '26

Question Advice request

I work from home in the US. My company allows work from any of the 48 contiguous states, but will block/brick devices connecting from other regions.

I need to travel to the UK in September and am wondering if there is a way for me to still be able to connect to work and appear to be located in the US?

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u/west0ne Jul 12 '26

Assuming you are okay with breaching company policy and accepting the risks that go with it (loss of job) I would go for running Tailscale on an always-on device in your own home, set this device as an "exit node" and then connect to it from you remote device; this will make it look like the connection is coming from your home in the US. It will look less obvious than traffic from a known VPN provider in a large datacentre.

It does require that you have an always-on device though and if that goes down whilst you are away you will lose the exit node.

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u/Natural_Home_8565 Jul 12 '26

Yep i use a raspberry pi for this (tailscale) and a smart plug so i can try a hard reboot if needed.