Egypt VPNs restrictions and how I got around them

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Hello everyone,

Remote employer and wanted to write this out for however it might help in the future,

I current use Open or Wireguard as my personal virtual private network and I also need to log in to my company’s virtual private network as well to get into my work stuff. I knew Egypt had strict limitations on using those so I took a week off from work and try my luck if I was able to get it running, which I did. I found that both VPNs platforms (OpenVPN or Wireguard) are blocked, so to get around it, I would share my Google Fi hotspot (which already has a proxy built into the connection) to my GL iNet and would run OpenVPN on top of that connection to access my company’s internal network, a bit slow but overrall solid connection and I would recommend.

Also I read online that there were limitations in Jordan on VPNs but I saw no restrictions and could run all of my private networks without any issues, if there’s any questions about working from either country I’m glad to help.

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You do know their 56k dialup is unfiltered

Take one those up addresses.

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Do you know if saudi has these restrictions ? I plan to travel there and want to set up a vpn from home I will also visit egypt. Also what kind of device do you use back at home ? I hear brume 2 is good?

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I used Mullvad obfuscation and that works, although very slow (since Egypt’s internet is painfully slow as-is).

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It seemed to me like they had some restrictions on Wireguard but no restrictions on OpenVPN, so I would stick to that. And any GL iNet works, the model doesn’t matter that much so the Brume 2 is a good option, but I do carry 2 routers as a backup.

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That would have been useful but I need to connect to my home’s IP so that wouldn’t have been an option, great to know for anyone else looking to do this.