I prefer to use public Wi-Fi usually because the cell data is often unreliable and bandwidth too low.

I’m using modern device (S23U) that supports Wi-Fi 6/E and on one of the public networks I use regularly, I’m being blocked from doing things that I troubleshooted and verified work on my cell data, but not on the Wi-Fi:

  • Cloudflare WARP will not activate to give my connection privacy.
  • I can’t seem to get any multiplayer mobile games that use Google Play services to work, possibly a P2P block? They won’t update or let me login.
  • Certain streaming sites and apps don’t work.

I haven’t bothered with other VPNs because I don’t like to risk my accounts on VPNs. Too many stories of people being banned from Google/Amazon whatever because they used a dirty IP address from a VPN. The only thing I trust is Cloudflare WARP to give some degree of privacy.

I’m basically fully exposed on public Wi-Fi. Please tell me what’s wrong here.

  • mantra2@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You should be using a VPN. If you’re afraid of a “dirty IP” then pay for Google One ($19/year).

    That’ll get you 100GB of storage and Google’s VPN that’ll work on all your devices. Most of the IPs you get with Google One VPN report as Google Fiber or Google One ISP and are so clean you’ll hardly get captchas.