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That’s a shame. I didn’t realize it was that locked down. Ive had a lot of terrible routers but all the ones I remember allowed me at least a port forward.

I think OP can accomplish some of the same result if he can get a cheap VPS to connect through (have the laptop Wireguard to the VPS, then have a proxy on the VPS forward to the laptop over the VPN, but that’s probably not worth the hassle for a starter project unfortunately.

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logir@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
In my case, I don’t technically own the router but it’s provided by my service provider. They don’t give you the password for the admin access

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qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I did that — free VPS w/public IP, WG to my router. Works great!

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- logir@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Which Vps provider are you using?
  
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  - qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oracle. Philosophical issues aside I’ve been happy, and can’t beat the price. Bandwidth is pretty limited, but that’s not a huge problem for me right now.
    
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