Comment by brewdad

I did the same thing recently while visiting family in SE Asia. I wanted to watch my team's bowl game but American college football is unknown in that part of the world. A Wireguard connection back to my home router gave me the ESPN access I pay for in the US.

A few services didn't work because they required my mobile device's location services (which still showed my in Asia). I'm sure I could have found a workaround for that but wasn't properly motivated to put in the effort for a short visit.

In a similar vein, I was able to troubleshoot a problem with our NAS from a cellular connection on a boat near Bali a couple years ago. My son needed access to some files for his college homework but couldn't access it remotely. I was able to access it and reconfigure a setting that had changed during an update and restore his access.

The internet feels like magic sometimes.