Stop Hotspot Throttling: How to get around your carriers hotspot limitations

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EXAMPLE

You have 15GB of fast hotspot data, after that, it slows to a crawl.

THE GOAL

Make it appear as if you are not using hotspot, when you are, to avoid throttling.

WHAT YOU NEED

1. Rooted Android phone

2. VPN Hotspot apk

3. VPN connection (a free option, if you always leave your home PC on, or router is compatible, is Tailscale with an exit node)

INSTRUCTIONS

Download the app, grant root access.

Turn on your VPN.

In VPN Hotspot toggle the items in my screenshot below:

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That’s it!

Your connection speeds will vary based on the quality of your VPN, but will most definitely be faster than your throttled data.

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epic!

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Yep! I’ve been doing this for a long time. It’s great.

Another benefit is all devices connected are on the VPN, and if you use tailscale or wireguard, all devices have access to anything on your home network.

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I don’t know which method works better, but this works without root.

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Dunno. First time seeing this

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Interesting.
I never had any problems with it.

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I’m not understanding what you are talking about

I tried getting this working but it says on browser, site can’t be reached. Any ideas?

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What site?

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Tailscale is your own private VPN, built on top of wireguard

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Any, I typed a few random letters into Google.

in short am I doing anything wrong? I have a laptop plus a phone and did all the steps besides 3 I don’t understand.
Thank you so much

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I’m very confused

What exactly is the issue? I need context

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I followed everything and I successfully connected my laptop. However when I tried using the Internet and tried a bunch of sites and I got the same error stating “site can not be reached”.
There are two possibilities why

  1. Gentech maybe is messing up stuff
  2. Maybe I had not followed correctly because I don’t understand this.
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I still don’t understand exactly what you are asking.

What exactly did you do?

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All this

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And what VPN are you using?

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Oh just realized I skiped how do I turn?

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I’m sorry I truly don’t understand what are you are saying :slight_smile:

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I mistakenly skiped turning on vpn. How do I turn on? I see an option in the phone settings. What do I put in when I edit the vpn profile?

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Could you provide the info how to do this?