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My clients use DHCP for everything and are always connected to my home VPN. If I'm away from home and need to connect to a captive network, I'll turn off the VPN, connect, then re-enable the VPN. I run unbound at home for DNS.




While I run a home VPN, I think using it exclusively runs into issues:

- frequently capture portals only permit access for 1-2hr. Your internet get cut off, then you have to realize its not a temporary issue, but portal issue, then you close the vpn, try to find the captive portal, and re-auth.

- latency is too high for my home vpn when I travel in asia




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