Hi all, I’m about to visit Mexico for 3 weeks. Currently in my country, I can download torrents and other stuff without VPN. Is it the same over there as well? I’d be using Wi-Fi over there.
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Just get a vpn to be safe. They are so cheap. I live in a country where no one cares about it, but I still use a vpn to be safe.
Also consider that people might not care now, but in the future, the rules might change and there might be a record that you torrented.
Two decades torrenting in Mexico (also periods of eMule and Soulseek), never a problem. No VPN, no seedbox, no Tailscale.
(ISP: Telmex Prodigy Infinitum.)
That’s great to hear.
I wouldn’t worry about it too much in Mexico—I go there all the time and find them to be reasonable about law enforcement. They have bigger fish to fry than pirates. Enjoy the great food and cool street performers—it is an amazing country that is massively misrepresented in a lot of the world.
That said—get a VPN. It’s a good idea in general.
Yeah my VPN (Mullvad) is super affordable and I just leave it on all the time so I never have to worry.
Also maybe a seedbox could work for this sort of situation? I’m not overly familiar with them but I assume that would also just be running no matter where OP is.
Yep, a seedbox is also a great solution. VPN’s and seedboxes are like airbags—you probably don’t need them most of the time, but you will be very glad you had them when you do.
Here’s a travel tip: don’t do dumb shit while you’re in a foreign country and don’t take advice from the internet.
Can you really not go without torrenting for 3 weeks?Those 3 weeks might get extended. Also, some shows’ episodes and movies are going to release as torrents in April.
Mexican here, pirate whatever you want. No one cares. Even the government uses pirate software.
Mexican here, I second this. I don’t even bother with VPNs. My ISP’s never done anything about it. Nobody in Mexico cares about that shit.
Do tread carefully, just in case idk
I think I would go with a paid VPN subscription for a month for a sense of security.
Sure thing, I’m obviously no expert in the matter. Please disregard any technical or technological advise I might appear to give.
Also! Enjoy Mexico!
Be careful with the food, as a foreigner trying spicy mexican food might give you “Moctezuma’s revenge” (the runs) keep a peptobismol bottle at arms lenght. Also, if you’re american stay away from tap water, we don’t drink that, we drink water from “garrafón” (big water bottle).
Micheladas are pretty good if you’re into beer and interesting flavours. Also try rusas with sprite (or any lime-flavoured soda). If you’re going to Guadalajara please try “carnes en su jugo” and “tortas ahogadas”, if you’re going near the coast, “ceviche” is incredibly delicious. Lime (“limón”) is the key to most mexican food and it’s sour but incredibly good and you’ll find it everywhere. The limes from “taquerías” however, are dry af. My safe food is “enchiladas Suizas”, and you might find them in any and most restaurants (they’re not actually from Switzerland)
Have fun!
That’s some wonderful advices! Thanks.
Why don’t you access your home computer over VPN from Mexico, manage your transfers on that machine per usual, and just pull whatever you need in Mexico directly from your home machine via your VPN? That way you can continue to torrent and seed without burdening someone else’s connection.
Tailscale is trivial for this.
Free.Just install a VPN server on your computer or router. That’s all you need unless you’re stuck on CGNAT.
Tailscale is a US product. I would avoid
You can also “simply” raw-dog Wireguard. It’s built into the Linux kernel, so you barely have to install anything besides the userspace tools.
Basically, I objected to being reliant on the generosity of a for-profit company. “We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.”
This is a rough sketch:
- Create a Linux server. It can even be a VM/container if you get the networking right.
- Create a Wireguard interface and pick a private IP address subnet that won’t conflict with your home subnet: https://www.wireguard.com/quickstart/
- Define PostUp and PostDown rules in your Wireguard config that modify iptables to masquerade traffic from the Wireguard subnet
- Also set net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 with sysctl. (There is probably an IPv6 equivalent but I live in the past.)
- Generate keypairs and configs for each device you want to use
- Set up dynamic DNS, e.g. https://freedns.afraid.org/
- Forward UDP port 51820 to your server
- Install the Wireguard app on your client devices. If Linux, you can just write a client config containing the necessary magic words and start it up with
wg-quick.
Boom. Tailscale’d.
I’m sure I’ve forgotten some steps. I have some janky automation that’s broken in a new way every time I try to use it.
Tailscale is Canadian
Ah the US state Canada? /s
Nah, my bad… you are right
Alternative is: Headscale.
Alternative is: Netbird
Also a bit annoying to set up in Russia, it works just fine, but the windows installer crashes trying to get an up to date version because of error 451. On iOS if you downloaded it before then it works (you redownload from the purchases page), have not tried on Linux yet
I’m going to take my laptop over there. Anyway, I’d go with a paid VPN for an additional peace of mind.
AFAIK South America (at least on Chile) doesn’t even care about how people use the internet, so you can pirate anything you want. I suppose is almost the same for Mexico, they have more important things to care about.
Seems true enough. I’d go with a paid VPN subscription as an extra precaution.
Same thing in Colombia. Something I really like about living here.
You guys too?? I love Latinamerica.
Kisses from Mexico
Well you probably won’t instantly get your door kicked in, but I wouldn’t torrent on someone else’s connection.
What would you even need to download in that time anyway?
Some shows’ episodes and movies are going to release as torrents in April.
Seedbox
This is also the case in US and Canada, no?
Is that real, or a misinterpretation of the law?
