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.
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Mexican here, pirate whatever you want. No one cares. Even the government uses pirate software.
Mexican here, I second this. I don’t even bother with VPNs. My ISP’s never done anything about it. Nobody in Mexico cares about that shit.
Do tread carefully, just in case idk
I think I would go with a paid VPN subscription for a month for a sense of security.
Consider mullvad :D
AFAIK South America (at least on Chile) doesn’t even care about how people use the internet, so you can pirate anything you want. I suppose is almost the same for Mexico, they have more important things to care about.
Same thing in Colombia. Something I really like about living here.
You guys too?? I love Latinamerica.
Kisses from Mexico
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.
Tailscale is trivial for this.
Free.Tailscale is a US product. I would avoid
Tailscale is Canadian
Ah the US state Canada? /s
Nah, my bad… you are right
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.
Here’s a travel tip: don’t do dumb shit while you’re in a foreign country and don’t take advice from the internet.
Can you really not go without torrenting for 3 weeks?Those 3 weeks might get extended. Also, some shows’ episodes and movies are going to release as torrents in April.
Just get a vpn to be safe. They are so cheap. I live in a country where no one cares about it, but I still use a vpn to be safe.
Also consider that people might not care now, but in the future, the rules might change and there might be a record that you torrented.
