What’s blocked, and why

These limits apply only to digital nomads’ traffic through a host’s connection. A host’s own devices aren’t affected. There are no speed or data limits.

Everything a remote worker normally does works: websites, video calls, streaming, email apps, file sync, and work VPNs and remote-desktop tools. A few things are blocked to protect hosts, their home networks and their internet connection.

Blocked to stop spam

What	Why	What still works
Sending email straight to mail servers (outgoing TCP port `25`)	It’s how spam is sent. Spam from a host’s connection gets their home address put on blocklists, which can break their own email and get their internet suspended. Ordinary users never need it, and many home internet providers already block it.	All email apps and webmail: Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail and others send with your login on ports `587` or `465`, which stay open.

Blocked to protect the host’s home

What	Why	What still works
Any device on the host’s home network: computers, cameras, printers, smart-home gear, their home router	Nomads get the internet, nothing else in the host’s home.	The whole public internet.
The host’s AirNomadNetwork router itself (its settings page and services)	So a nomad can never change how the host’s router works.	Your connection through it.
Other nomads on the same host	Nomads can’t see or reach each other.
IPv6	So nothing can slip around the protections above.	Every site and app, over IPv4, which your device uses automatically.
Incoming connections to a nomad	Nobody on the internet or in the host’s home can start a connection to your device.	Everything you start yourself. You can’t run a server, or play games that need open incoming ports.

If the router can’t put these protections in place, it disconnects every nomad until it can.

What isn’t blocked or recorded

No speed or data limits: nomads are remote workers who need full speed.
No site is blocked by name, and AirNomadNetwork never records which sites anyone visits.
Rules on how the connection may be used are in the Acceptable Use Policy (nomads) and the Host Agreement (hosts).

Something you need is blocked?

Check the list above first: most often it’s an email app set to port 25 (switch it to 587) or a game needing incoming connections. If it’s something else, reply to your invite email and tell us what you were trying to do.