Hi. I’m quite new and don’t know a whole lot about VPNs but I’m curious if there is any way to use a VPN with a mobile hotspot device so my carrier does not know what I am doing on the hotspot. I want to specifically use a mobile hotspot device. Thank you for any help.
Yes it’s possible to use a vpn over a mobile hotspot connection!
Use moxie to a router and a vpn on Roku
I have been trying to work out that puzzle, in my head, got close to a year, and I can’t come up with the solution. Not to say there isn’t a solution. I even grilled a IT with my carrier service, and even with his knowledge, the answer was no VPN will not cover my mobile hotspot.
Keep in mind that this is only a transfer of trust, and that now the VPN provider knows what you’re doing instead.
I have only ever used apps on Android that require root access. I use VPN Hotspot. Others here say it is possible without root, I haven’t found apps that work without root for this. iOS I have no idea about though as I don’t own, nor will ever own an Apple product.
Hi! I work on hotspots as well. To deal with this, I just use a VPN app on whatever devices are connected to the hotspot. You can also enable VPN on the hotspot if its configurable or a mobile phone. Each VPN provider might have some information pertaining to this on their blog or website somewhere.
I’m not sure about your desired configuration.
First, the carrier may not know what you are doing on the hotspot/VPN combo, but they will know that you are using a VPN. This may be significant.
As mentioned, you have to trust the VPN provider as well as the manufacturers and distribution chain for additional hardware and software. I do not know and do not want to know nor should I know the reasons for your precautions. However, once you say that you are trying to conceal information from your service providers, you are raising some flags.
By a mobile hotspot device, are you talking about a unit that has a wifi router that then passes communications with the public internet through the carrier. Are you using multiple devices to access the hotspot via WiFi. You could place a VPN client on each device talking to the hotspot.
If you want to send everything on your local WiFi LAN through the VPN as one data stream, you might have to use a second router that is specifically designed for passing communication to the outside through a VPN. In this case, the VPN client would be on the additional router.
Another possibility for a mobile hotspot device is a smartphone such as Android or iPhone/iOS. The VPN software built into the iPhone appears to connect the smartphone itself to the VPN but signals from the built in hotspot are passed through without being processed by the VPN client. https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/8rn35c/how\_to\_share\_vpn\_via\_personal\_hotspot/
The carrier will always know how much data is being used over the cell connection no matter that you do. So unless you have an “unlimited” data plan or understand your data limits if you don’t then you probably won’t want to use a hotspot. And even with “unlimited” data some carrier will throttle after so much data is used.
But yeah sometimes a phone’s hotspot creates a split connection, despite using a vpn app on the phone. In which case you’d use the vpn on the devices behind the hotspot you are using the hotspot for in order to keep their own connections going through the vpn.
If you mean use a vpn to make your phone act like a hotspot by supplying internet vi usb/wifi tether then a vpn won’t do that anyways even if you use a vpn on devices behind it.
How would i do that?
No, but the devices you connect to it can use a VPN client…
Did you ever find a solution?
I am currently partaking in a project where we are developing an H.Browser application for a Tizen Hospitality TV, meaning I have to go to the office if I want to connect the TV to our internal test server.
I was thinking about setting up a hotspot on my phone with a VPN but any device that is connected to the hotspot is unable to access our internal websites. Only the device itself with the VPN client on it is able to access those.
And ofc there is no way to set up a VPN on the Samsung TV itself lol
I want to use a vpn because i have an unlimited att hotspot for business use only and if they see im using it for anything besides business use that will be an issue. Id like to use the hotspot with a VPN so they dont know.
You just do it. Nothing special at all. The hotspot is your internet - so what? You have internet. Now connect to a VPN.
What if it cant use the client…for example xbox. I want to watch hulu on my xbox which is connected to my phone duh
On your phone you can use ookla speedtest vpn which allows you to use your phone as a tether while using the vpn…and on your Samsung TV you can sideload Samsung max vpn
How are they classifying “business use” lmao? I watch YouTube videos for work. There are people who play video games for work.
So with Visible when I connect my work computer with always on VPN to my hotspot my Google speed test goes from 285Mbps to 0.80Mbps. I called today about it, I guess they dont allow people to use their mobile hotspot thru a VPN to prevent malicious or illegal activity…thanked me for being a valuable customer and then called me a criminal.
do you put it on the device hosting the hotspot or the device connecting to the hotspot
Yes but the provider says they will cut off signal when trying to use anything along the lines of Netflix, music, games, etc