VPN for PC email

[Deleted User]

Can he access the emails on a mobile phone - if so just use that with mobile data as most networks will route via a UK IP address.

Or just use the wifi hotspot on the mobile phone to connect the laptop.

Failing that, Mullvad - £5 per month pay as you go VPN, full instructions on the website.

J_B

Deleted_User said:

Can he access the emails on a mobile phone - if so just use that with mobile data as most networks will route via a UK IP address.

He can but prefers laptop

Or just use the wifi hotspot on the mobile phone to connect the laptop.

Do many networks allow that? His contract certainly doesn't

Failing that, Mullvad - £5 per month pay as you go VPN, full instructions on the website.

But for a 2 week holiday for 'only' emails, he would prefer free

Answers in bold above

onomatopoeia99

I have an EE contract and a Vodafone contract and can use either SIM as a hotspot, including overseas. 

If your son doesn't want to pay, he can set up his own vpn into his home broadband connection.  There is a wealth of information on running openvpn (free software for both server and client end) to be found with a cursory google search and the important benefit is that he will control the endpoint.  I wouldn't trust any VPN where I wasn't in control of the endpoint which rules out all the services recommended here.

I run a VPN at home which I connect to from outside, so I can appear to be at home wherever I am if I have broadband. 

debitcardmayhem

J_B said:

[Deleted User] said:

Can he access the emails on a mobile phone - if so just use that with mobile data as most networks will route via a UK IP address.

He can but prefers laptop

Or just use the wifi hotspot on the mobile phone to connect the laptop.

Do many networks allow that? His contract certainly doesn't

Failing that, Mullvad - £5 per month pay as you go VPN, full instructions on the website.

But for a 2 week holiday for 'only' emails, he would prefer free

Answers in bold above

can he not use webmail ? or can he forward his mails say hotmail(outlook/live mail or whatever ms call it now) or a free account elsewhere that  has webmail e.g. gmx.

It's a holiday no work mails are needed

J_B

onomatopoeia99 said:

I have an EE contract and a Vodafone contract and can use either SIM as a hotspot, including overseas.

His Three contract doesn't allow this
If your son brother doesn't want to pay, he can set up his own vpn into his home broadband connection. 

But, he will be at a hotel in Switzerland

Bold above again.

debitcardmayhem said:

can he not use webmail ? yes, but prefers not to or can he forward his mails say hotmail(outlook/live mail or whatever ms call it now) or a free account elsewhere that  has webmail e.g. gmx.

It's a holiday no work mails are needed

He's retired, but likes to keep in touch

Thanks all

J_B

dogmaryxx said:

Never used any of these ,download and try   https://www.cloudwards.net/free-uk-vpn/  

In conclusion ...

The top one on that link was windscribe

oldernonethewiser said:

Windscribe VPN used to have a free option

so we tried that one - it seems to work and has a big on/off switch so should be simple to use

Proof of the pudding will be when he reaches his Swiss hotel