Originally Posted by
Zarf4
I suspect that some services may be aware of some of the commercial VPN IPs and are blocking them. I run an OpenVPN Linux server at home so my traffic appears to originate there and haven't had any problems with e-mail or accessing Hulu overseas.
I set up the home server because outbound e-mails are blocked by my work VPN. My reply-to personal email addy is:
[email protected] and our work server only allows
[email protected] mails to go out.
It's also pretty easy these days to pick up a $30 dd-wrt wireless router and reflash the firmware to give you a very cheap home VPN server.
Do you have a link to a tutorial to set up a DD-WRT OpenVPN server?
I'm in a similar boat as you and don't want to get a commercial VPN service where my data would end up at someone else's server needlessly if I can route it through home.
What are the Pros/Cons to this approach?