Let's pretend I want to play online poker from NY on my NJ account - let's leave aside the legality - I'm having a theoretical discussion with a friend who works for one of the online NJ (legal) poker sites.
If I configure an old Linksys router to run a VPN to my home PC (in NJ) from NY and pass all traffic through the router, shouldn't the laptop connecting wirelessly to the router get an NJ IP address connected to my home account?
Since there isn't any VPN software running on the laptop, doesn't it completely think that it's in NJ?
My friend claimed that the software tries to connect to 3 other wireless points to verify, but that's not always available (certainly not from my house) and it's illegal for software to try to connect to a wireless account that isn't owned/permitted by the user.
So, I'm not about to go take a router to NY, but am I wrong about this being a simple, invisible way to beat the geolocation software the casinos use?
Andrew
If I configure an old Linksys router to run a VPN to my home PC (in NJ) from NY and pass all traffic through the router, shouldn't the laptop connecting wirelessly to the router get an NJ IP address connected to my home account?
Since there isn't any VPN software running on the laptop, doesn't it completely think that it's in NJ?
My friend claimed that the software tries to connect to 3 other wireless points to verify, but that's not always available (certainly not from my house) and it's illegal for software to try to connect to a wireless account that isn't owned/permitted by the user.
So, I'm not about to go take a router to NY, but am I wrong about this being a simple, invisible way to beat the geolocation software the casinos use?
Andrew