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I'm going to be away from home for a few weeks and would like to access my computer (LMDE) while I'm away. Remote desktop connection would be ideal, just file transfer would be acceptable.

Is a VPN necessary, or can port forwarding be good enough for a one time use?

What software/networking recommendations do you have?

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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They removed almost every basic networking feature with a firmware update. Even in "expert mode", all I can do is set up the wifi and pick a single /24 network from 192.168.0.0/16. I can't even pick a goddamn DNS server. Unfortunately the other ISPs that serve my area are at least twice as expensive.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Wow. An ISP going down the route of enshittification by taking away networking basics is not something that i would have expected years ago, but nowadays i am only sad about it.

My ISP wants me to swap out my modem, but as long as it works i won't do so - i fear they might take away my (officially dynamic, but only changing once in a blue moon when they make changes in their network topology) IPv4 address and stick me back behind the awful CGNAT they have as they did once without asking years ago.

[–] Guiorgy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Yep, my network was set up before the ISPs here merged by a smaller one that did things simpler, so I dont even have an ISP modem, just my OpenWRT router and no CGNAT, and I've only had my IP change once so far (since I started caring about it at least). Everything newer around uses ISP modems and are behind CGNAT, on my mates modem, they wouldn't even let him set up his Wi-Fi, he had to go with double NAT-ing and setting 2 APs next to each other (the ISP modem/router has some default trash Wi-Fi). I'm praying they never bother coming to me 🙏