I now had a mobile hotspot that practically served as portable unlimited home WiFi! Now, it turns out that simply having your VPN and mobile hotspot enabled won’t route the internet traffic of the devices connected through the hotspot, through the VPNs connection, so we need an app that will do that for us.Ĭue VPN Thether, a free app that advertises itself as being an easy solution to sharing your VPN connection with other devices through your mobile hotspot! And although it’s interface is slightly confusing (having the word Stop show up at the beginning meaning it’s actually off, and not that you should press it to Stop the app from doing anything, and Start when the app is actually doing it’s work) it worked perfectly, even giving me NAT A and B, letting me play online games with my Nintendo Switch even though my carrier and hotspot wouldn’t allow this type of usage! VPNs work by encrypting and tunneling your internet connectivity to a server, essentially making your internet traffic invisible to your carrier, perfect for what we want to do. So another solution was needed, and I found the perfect one. Now, it turns out that carriers, knowing about these “bypasses”, have started to add other checks, such as checking how many connections are going through your network, therefore moving to server side switches to limit your connection. I tried the adding =true to the build.prop file under system, which tells the device not to do these provisioning checks (great write up on how it works here: )and using the settings put global tether_dun_required 0 command in terminal, which should have actually worked, since it would tell the phone not to switch to an tethering APN and instead use the usual unrestricted APN. While Android does have system files you can add simple lines to that will prevent it from doing so, they didn’t work on their own. So the solution was simple, right? Just make your device not contact the carrier when enabling the hotspot! Well, not so much. This included “questions” like: Am I allowed to tether? What APN should I be using to tether? How much am I allowed to tether? It turned out that when you attempted to enable your mobile hotspot, the device would actually send a prompt to the carrier asking it what it should do, basically making a provisioning check. If you want to get straight to the steps, skip the following and go to the bold Instructions section.įirst thing I did was look up how carriers know that you are tethering, because there had to be some communication between the carrier and the device if they were going to limit what websites you were going to visit, limit the amount of data you can share with your other devices or even outright disable your ability to tether, and I found out something interesting. This should also work if you want to be able to game off of your mobile hotspots though this might be VPN dependant. OBLIGATORY please check your terms and conditions for your carriers before doing this so as to not be in violation of them. So thus began my quest to find a way to bypass the limitations my carrier had on using my device as a mobile hotspot, and on the way, I found a solution that even got rid of the NAT limitations of my mobile hotspot, allowing me to play online games with consoles, regardless of the NAT limitations of the carrier. I was quickly disappointed to find out that many websites were simply unaccessible, didn’t work for certain devices and that I could only share about 2GB of data before getting locked out. I got it because I’m out and about a lot and on many occasions I’ve found myself needing to do something on my laptop requiring an internet connection. Recently I got a “no frills, no limits” unlimited data plan for 33$ a month.
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