VPN in CPH lounge
 

Anybody noticed you can no longer connect to an external VPN when using SAS wifi in the lounge? Airport wifi or 3G/LTE is fine, so it looks like SAS went to the trouble of deliberately blocking it. Which always seems a little suspect to me.

It should be a fairly recent change then. My next CPH departure is with BA, so I can't test again soon.

Was working fine 1,5 week ago.

I had the same issue in the ARN T5 lounge yesterday.
Using the free airport wifi, VPN worked, but the SAS lounge wifi was a no-go.

Worked fine for me. Maybe you should talk to your IT department first ...

We all should remember that there are different kinds of VPN, some may be blocked and some not. The most common ones I think would be PPTP, IPSec and OpenVPN.
It would be interesting to read what kinds of VPN that members here experience are blocked.

I suppose they just block all ports besides the usual ones... not really blocking VPN in itself. Tunneling through an SSL/TLS (OpenVPN style) tunnel still works

Quite possible (though it still seems of dubious value to them.). For me it was openvpn (1194/udp).

I was mostly curious if others had noticed or they were just experimenting when I was there.

Thx

Blocking all but http(s) traffic is the naive way to try to rule out peer to peer sharing abuse...

This way the lounge operator can claim they do reasonable steps to protect the content providers rights... And avoid those silly lawsuits

I don't think that the SAS lounge WiFi is any more secure than public WiFi networks. I didn't notice any WEP or WPA2 encryption, just a login portal.
Having a choice between an open SAS lounge WiFi network that blocks my VPN (ExpressVPN) and an open airport WiFi network that allows VPN, the choice is pretty simple.
UA lounge networks also block some VPN connections. I guess SAS has copied their approach.

I did not know that SAS is operating lounges in Mainland China.

Joke aside!

I have heard that SAS IT has bought some kind of Chinese-made network devices.
They have built in VPN-detection algorithms which kill VPN connections.

I was just in the CPH lounge because of an involuntary change to my itinerary. The wifi which I praised here has gone from great to terrible. Apparently their improvement was recognised and got praise so they had to go back and made it worse, in typical SK fashion. I could VPN just fine but whatever equipment they installed made sure it wasn't usable.

I don't understand how a multi-billion dollar company has an IT department that is this clueless. It was a great experience being let down by the useless wifi, while confirming they still haven't fixed the deleted points problem, while being at an airport I shouldn't have been at in the first place.

On a side note - I was yesterday able to connect just fine to the CPH WiFi from remote stand 70. A stand which is beyond terminal F - and halfway to Malmö. ^

Could it be related to the lounge load? CPH lounges have quite predictable peak times. I think the internet is weak when there is many people in the lounge, and perfectly alright if there are few (which indicates that the link and/or equipment are not of sufficient power for the needs).

It's very poor tbh.
I was there today during 4pm and 6pm. Free seating spots but definitely not empty and it was quite slow at loading basic websites. :confused: