Vpn router for remote work

VPN
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Hi there…just have a question in regards to using a VPN and actual location.

Here is a little background. I work remotely for a big tech company and my home work area is Seatlle. I travel to Canada very frequently and stay in there for months at a time. Recently I was warned by my company that Im exceeding the limit of foreign logins and I can be subject to termination. My computer has a VPN that was set on “auto” so everytime Im in Canada it connects to a server in there. Im guessing this is why they found out. I spoke to HR and was able to find out that both the VPN and router can be tracked by our IT. The VPN part I was able to set to always connect to the US servers but Im wondering about my router. I know I can get routers that has VPN capabilities. If Im to get that router and have it connect to US servers, will they still be able to find out if Im working out of my home area or abroad(CANADA)?

I need to help on this and thank you in advance.

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You really want to push your luck even after being caught?

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Are you paying Canadian federal and provincial income taxes?

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probably the easiest thing you can do, since it sounds like you have a good job, get a nice home PC desktop that you remote into for work when abroad and work from that PC. barring that you can looking into getting a router that can setup and forward all traffic through your VPN, you would still want a server you control hosted by your home’s router or PC.

relying on a public VPN service you run the risk of the VPN service’s subnet being blacklisted or if relying on free servers suddenly going offline.

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setup a Wireguard or OpenVPN server in your home country using a Raspberry Pi → BOOM, access to a REAL RESIDENTIAL local IP.

Buy a travel router like a GL.iNet, I suggest GL-AXT1800, setup the VPN client in this router, enable the killswitch. As a bonus, implement a firewall rule to block all the non-wireguard or non-OpenVPN connection from your network card.

Disable WiFi, bluetooth, turn on airplane mode in your working laptop and connect ONLY with an ethernet cable, using a USB to ethernet adaptor if needed. If possible, disable all the location services.

You’re done. Pay attention that a raspberry failure or internet failure at your home will cause disruption of the system, so better to have some backup at a relative house. DM me for more info

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This is r/informationtechnology not r/taxevasion we don’t ask questions like that here.

/s

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Companies usually prohibit using personal devices for work anyway, so their IT department won’t allow the machine to connect to any of their tools.

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Leave the work computer home and use a personal computer to remote into the work computer.

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Unlikely to be allowed either.

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how would they know? And why would it matter? the entire point is to prevent intercepting sensitive data going to the company, if he securely remotes to a home PC then connects to the company then he avoids that entirely. And if thats not adequate then how can they trust his home network is secure anyway?

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I mean, remoting into a work computer is probably prohibited.