I have a VPN internet plan on my T-Mobile plan. I use GPRS (internet3.voicestream.com), I'm wondering if VPN is more faster or anything?...
A VPN plan usually means you can connect to your corperate VPN over GPRS. With this plan, you can also still use GPRS as is.
There is not usually a speed difference, the difference is you are not behind a nat firewall. However different ISP's have different policies.
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If I select "internet sharing" when connecting to my PC, does that mean my PC uses my mobile data, or does it mean my desire can use my PC's internet ?
Ideally I want my desire to use my computers connection when I am in my office (i'm on telstra in australia with a limited 3G plan)
Thanks, Dean
It means your PC is using your mobile data (with your limited 3G plan) and NOT the other way around.
If you need internet connection in office, I suggest that you make use of any Wifi in office instead of your limited 3G plan.
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shawshanks said:
It means your PC is using your mobile data (with your limited 3G plan) and NOT the other way around.
If you need internet connection in office, I suggest that you make use of any Wifi in office instead of your limited 3G plan.
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Thanks for that, I thought that was the case but wasnt sure.
Now I need to work out how to set up a local wifi network at work.
Cheers, Dean
shawshanks said:
It means your PC is using your mobile data (with your limited 3G plan) and NOT the other way around.
If you need internet connection in office, I suggest that you make use of any Wifi in office instead of your limited 3G plan.
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Is there anyway to force the phone to use the desktop internet when connected via usb ?
Hi Everyone,
Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm fairly good with Android/computer-y stuff in general, but I have absolutely no experience with VPNs so my knowledge of them is very limited.
I know that if I set up a VPN with my home network, I'll be able to access things like private network shares over the internet. This is great, but I'm curious if I can use the VPN to route my phone's network traffic through my home internet connection? I know it'll add latency, but I'm mainly interested in giving my phone the same external IP as my home network, even while out and about. I feel it'd probably help from when I'm on IRC and the phone disconnects and reconnects every time I connect to Wireless, but if it was all done over VPN, it shouldn't matter. Is this possible with a VPN, or do I still have to go about setting up a proxy server?
When you connect to your home VPN - it's IP range will be the same as if you were at home, connected normally to the wifi network.
Now that's what I wanted to know! Thanks, Tander!
First of all I apologize if there is any similar forum related to this topic because I couldn't find any. If you do, please forgive me.
This recent 2 months, I noticed that T-Mobile has been throttling VPN connection speed. When first time I used VPN, I used hotspot shield, viatun and nvpn.net. All of these VPN gave me very good speed on T-Mobile network. Now, I only barely get 2 Mbps on hotspot shield and viatun even though I am in LTE network.
For nvpn.net, it uses openvpn client so I can connect from PC or from my GN II. If I am connect my GN II through wifi and use nvpn.net, I will get the speed about 13 Mbps which my home internet wifi is 15 Mbps. However, if I am in T-Mobile network although in LTE network (Normal speed 18 Mbps), the speed is only limited to 7 Mbps.
I am just wondering if T-Mobile is throttling vpn connection and also happening on you guys.
Thank you very much
VPN config.
Hopefully I am not threadjacking here ... But,
I am interested in how you configured your VPN since I am researching how to set up my GN II as a VPN server so I can use it as a hotspot for my laptop. Questions I have:
I am assuming that my IP address is going to be my VPN servers address? either that or do I need to register a domain server to set up a VPN?
Any feedback you have would help and again sorry I couldn't answer your question as to T-Mobiles Throttling. Hopefully this isn't a trend and the only thing I could think of of would be to switch VPN software?
Again I am new to VPN but from what I understand you can use different SW to encrypt your tunnel. Thanks again and sorry if this seems off topic.
Anyone know how I can attach a Galaxy S4 mini to a Draytek 2820n router?
I'll give a bit of background that might explain why I'm trying to do what I'm doing.
I'm a heavy internet user. I need to download medical image files that are 300MB at a time on a frequent basis, as well as wanting to do usual downloading from iPlayer, Sky etc, plus app updates and all the usual keeping computers up to date. I live somewhere that I cannot get a decent ADSL connection (download speed is about 256Kb/s) never mind fibre. However, do have a good 3G (HSDPA) connection with three.co.uk. Have a Draytek 2820n router so I can use a 3G dongle via the router's USB so in essence the whole house has a fairly rapid internet connection. Only problem is that three's mobile broadband plans limit you to 15GB cap per month.
I've got a Galaxy S4 mini on monthly contract which gives unlimited (All You Can Eat) data and allows tethering.
I've been able to successfully connect wifi devices to the S4 via wifi tethering and use the internet but it's a pain having to switch wifi connections if say I want to control an XBMC server on my LAN, for instance. What would be ideal is to have the router distribute the S4's internet around. I can't just put the SIM in a mobile dongle as three have a way of blocking that (something to do with IMEI recognition) and I don't want to risk trying it.
Anyone got any ideas how I might be able to go about this. The Draytek router has various settings you can put into the 3G setup - I've attached a screenshot. I've tried various things but nothing works and I'm not sure how to access the router's debugging output. I set the S4 with USB debugging on in the developer settings. Wondering if there is something I can do that is fairly straightforward on the S4 so that I can try some generic dial string settings on the router to see if that works. I'd read something about putting the S4 into USB Kies mode but I don't seem to have that option.
My other thought was I might be able to leave the S4 in wifi tethering mode and somehow bridge this with my router but that would probably screw up my LAN DHCP assignments as I'd have to switch the router DHCP off and then I would be limited to 10 connections.
Sorry it's a bit long and complex. Any thoughts anyone?
Can I have it access the VPNs DNS servers, etc.? Is it worth it get VPN if hotspot is your sole source of internet?