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!
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I have successfully configured vpn on my phone to connect to my home network. Unfortunately I have no idea what this is useful for. Can anyone give any suggestions?
gillepy said:
I have successfully configured vpn on my phone to connect to my home network. Unfortunately I have no idea what this is useful for. Can anyone give any suggestions?
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VPN or Virtual Private Network gives you the ability to connect from a hotspot to your home network. Once connected you can use the services of your own network while being somewhere else. For example if you have set up a DLNA server at home, you can watch your movies while sitting in the park for example. This is of course if both your home internet connection and the hotspot's connection can spare the bandwith required for the service you are using and the service doesn't mind the extra lag.
VPN is more useful if you connect to your business network, because companies usualy limit the services and data that can be accessed from the internet.
That's the theory anyway, because I can't test that feature - my router doesn't support incoming VPN connections.
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?
Hi all, first post so sorry if it's in the wrong place! I seem to have an issue connecting to my Fire Stick via adbfire. Adbfire won't connect to my Stick (Followed all steps required) and I have a feeling that it could be because I'm connected to my university Halls of Residence WiFi which is a shared network; is it possible that because of this the IP Address on my laptop won't match the one with the Stick? If so, is there any possible workaround to be able to get Kodi on the device?
Many thanks!
John
Hi,
Most universities employ Layer 2 client isolation, so that one wireless client is not able to communicate with another client. You will likely need to bring in your own router and use your own wireless SSID (against most university network AUP) in order to connect and push things via ADB.
Easiest workaround I can think of is to create your own wifi network, either by using your own router (even without an active internet connection, there are cheap ones available) or you could try a laptop/desktop or a smartphone.
If you have a wired ethernet connection or get a router which can connect to another wifi network, you may be able to get away with your own router all the time, but it's a gamble depending on your uni (mine apparently claimed that they would ban people, but I've been using a cable router without any problems so far (touch wood)).
If you go the path of your own router, be sure you hide the SSID.
The Cisco APs we used, at the university I used to work at, had a dubious "feature" that would actively search out "rogue" SSIDs and would continuously associate/deassociate with them in order to overload the AP and cause them to lock up. They didn't want students using other public available SSIDs for fear of privacy concerns.
Is there any way for the fire TV to connect to it? My university uses it, and I was wondering if I could connect, but the access point is not showing up
Can´t look now because I´m not at home but wasn´t there a setting for a manual AP setup where you could enter the SSID by yourself?
Some organizations may keep a second network available for legacy devices like printers, XBoxes, and older machines. You can check with your university's tech support to see how you can add your device to the list of allowed access for that network.
This isn't a guarantee that this network exists for you, but most enterprise and even some residential-grade equipment have this capability.
Otherwise, you might be able to find a router or range extender that can understand and connect to WPA2-Enterprise to work around this. In a pinch, an old laptop with two wifi cards or a wifi Ethernet port should suffice.
Or you may want to scrap wifi and run an Ethernet cable to your dorm's jack or personal switch.
Related topics found through Googling, but no further help:
https://www.reddit.com/r/cordcutters/comments/2sv1ov/best_option_for_college_wifi/
https://www.reddit.com/r/fireTV/comments/2mydhh/fire_tv_stick_can_you_use_a_wireless_network_that/
Thanks the responses, but neither of them works well for me. there is a secondary unsecured wifi network, but it is just too slow to use, especially for streaming videos. I sideloaded a wifi APK onto it, and the networks DO show up, but there is no way to enter the login information (you need both a username and password.) Anyone know of an app that can do that?