I have AIS Fiber 1 gigabit. The router is garbage but overall the service has been decent. I pay post a promo period ~600 a month, promo period ~450 a month.

@Brandon ***********

there’s just no excuse. Really.

@Brandon ***********

that from an infrastructure administrative point of view is pathetic.

They can replace the cert in minutes, certificate authorities send expiration notices well in advance. Gawd! Sorry for the rant. 🤮

@Chris *******

Yes, certainly this is one way! But the end run to all the above can be ignored by using routing traces. Most often using flat tables of preidentified device origins. Though VPNs can impersonate a regions IP address it cannot mask the routing coming from outside of a designated area.

I used to restrict access to infrastructure, sites and services to only the US 48 contagious states for an entire organization, VPN or not. Tools used would not only allow for restriction based on IP and subnets, they would identify the geographic origin of the request. Frankly pretty slick stuff!

@Brian ********

an encrypted tunnel is an encrypted tunnel, the security level is more dependent on the vendor, not the technology (in this case VPN).

@Robert ****

Did you try without the VPN? Many simply will not allow a VPN these days as it's used for hack attempts a lot!

I have 4 US based banks and 3 will not work with a VPN but work fine from Thailand without the VPN.

@Jayla *******

what I did to get around this is retained my home phone number, ported it over to Google Voice which is VOIP and it works fine! 😉

@Chris *******

It's called Geofencing! Though VPN masks or assigns different IP Addresses, it cannot mask the routing table (where the request originated) and a company (many do this) can restrict that access attempt based on its geographic origin. My experience has been in Thailand this renders VPN pretty much pointless most of the time.

Exact same requirements I followed over a year ago and just did a border run for year two.

Nothing different from what I can see. 👍

I use my Schwab exclusively for atm cash withdraws as they refund all the fees. Not exactly your question but the amount of money on atm use fees isn’t trivial. 👍