Hi all, I’m about to visit Mexico for 3 weeks. Currently in my country, I can download torrents and other stuff without VPN. Is it the same over there as well? I’d be using Wi-Fi over there.

  • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Why don’t you access your home computer over VPN from Mexico, manage your transfers on that machine per usual, and just pull whatever you need in Mexico directly from your home machine via your VPN? That way you can continue to torrent and seed without burdening someone else’s connection.

        • 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          4 days ago

          You can also “simply” raw-dog Wireguard. It’s built into the Linux kernel, so you barely have to install anything besides the userspace tools.

          Basically, I objected to being reliant on the generosity of a for-profit company. “We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.”

          This is a rough sketch:

          • Create a Linux server. It can even be a VM/container if you get the networking right.
          • Create a Wireguard interface and pick a private IP address subnet that won’t conflict with your home subnet: https://www.wireguard.com/quickstart/
          • Define PostUp and PostDown rules in your Wireguard config that modify iptables to masquerade traffic from the Wireguard subnet
          • Also set net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 with sysctl. (There is probably an IPv6 equivalent but I live in the past.)
          • Generate keypairs and configs for each device you want to use
          • Set up dynamic DNS, e.g. https://freedns.afraid.org/
          • Forward UDP port 51820 to your server
          • Install the Wireguard app on your client devices. If Linux, you can just write a client config containing the necessary magic words and start it up with wg-quick.

          Boom. Tailscale’d.

          I’m sure I’ve forgotten some steps. I have some janky automation that’s broken in a new way every time I try to use it.