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Is worth it to purchase a tor vpn to run the node on my laptop since I only have a hotspot mobile device? [REDACTED] #133

Open 4ever18 opened 3 years ago

4ever18 commented 3 years ago

I try many different things to change the ports on my hotspot, alas am afraid am at the end of the rope on this one. It would seem that I cannot get a connection to get the node to ping my computer. I actually got two out of the three checkmarks, but still short of running fully complete. If anyone knows how to bypass this or has any info on this, even if advised to get a Tor VPN, I would greatly appreciate it. I live in an area where a Wi-Fi router connection isn't possible at this time and only can use my hot spot device thru att.

brokenisuseless commented 3 years ago

vpn will have no open ports in most cases

4ever18 commented 3 years ago

@brokenisuseless you mean if I purchase a tor vpn plan it will still won't have a dedicated ip for me to port the codes? i read on the trouble shoot forum that there has been success with vpn tor.

brokenisuseless commented 3 years ago

@brokenisuseless you mean if I purchase a tor vpn plan it will still won't have a dedicated ip for me to port the codes? i read on the trouble shoot forum that there has been success with vpn tor.

I have never seen a vpn anywhere ,where they allowed open ports, the idea of vpn is to hide your traffic, open ports can expose you, so they dont let you do it

brokenisuseless commented 3 years ago

ps I had a hotspot and the only way to pass trafic was with IP6, it went right through

ihatejam commented 3 years ago

@brokenisuseless you mean if I purchase a tor vpn plan it will still won't have a dedicated ip for me to port the codes? i read on the trouble shoot forum that there has been success with vpn tor.

I have never seen a vpn anywhere ,where they allowed open ports, the idea of vpn is to hide your traffic, open ports can expose you, so they dont let you do it

On the contrary, I've personally used surfshark VPN successfully to resolve port forward issues, while traveling, in order to access various resources back at base. This included the ability to run my Pi node on my laptop during this time while using wifi at different locations (hotels). Surfshark's basic plan seems to work just fine with tunneling and forwarding traffic to ports 31400-31409.

@4ever18 if you need remote assistance with setting this up - just let me know -- feel free to confirm who I am with the moderators in the Pi app chat before responding.

Regards, ihatejam

brokenisuseless commented 3 years ago

@brokenisuseless you mean if I purchase a tor vpn plan it will still won't have a dedicated ip for me to port the codes? i read on the trouble shoot forum that there has been success with vpn tor.

I have never seen a vpn anywhere ,where they allowed open ports, the idea of vpn is to hide your traffic, open ports can expose you, so they dont let you do it

On the contrary, I've personally used surfshark VPN successfully to resolve port forward issues, while traveling, in order to access various resources back at base. This included the ability to run my Pi node on my laptop during this time while using wifi at different locations (hotels). Surfshark's basic plan seems to work just fine with tunneling and forwarding traffic to ports 31400-31409.

@4ever18 if you need remote assistance with setting this up - just let me know -- feel free to confirm who I am with the moderators in the Pi app chat before responding.

Regards, ihatejam

Surfshark VPN does not support port forwarding. This decision was made with your security in mind. Opening a port means potentially creating a hole in your cybersecurity that would allow access to the user’s devices. right in there own info ,it says they dont support it, just like I said and most dont, it says right on the pi gui open ports are not required to run a node, they are required to run a super node. If you read down this page you will see where it says they dont support it https://surfshark.com/blog/vpn-port-forwarding

brokenisuseless commented 3 years ago

https://surfshark.com/blog/vpn-port-forwarding read down the page its right there, Im not trying to be a jerk but I probably no more about this than you. I have 2 nodes running one in a windows 10 guest on a linux box, and another running on this pc which is also running linux on a windows8 guest. I also have a bitcoin lightning node running.I was mining bitcoin in 2009 on an ati video card, and in 2000 I was a network admin. the windows 10 machine is using VMware player and the windows8 machine is using virtualbox