I have a galaxy note 8 and have had unlimited Hotspot for over 3 years now, my wife changed our plan & now I only have 30 gigs a month and then it slows to 128kbs! I have been using it to stream since I cut the cord with our cable company, needless to say I can't stream anything at 128kbs... My question, is there a workaround or solution to solve this issue? I have unlimited data through att and I'm using a unrooted note 8 & trying to stream or screen mirror to a Nvidia shield either through my Hotspot or USB tethering etc... I have tried a few apps from the playstore to no avail. Any ideas or suggestions greatly appreciated.
I disabled LTE and use 3G on T-Mobile network. Set phone to WCDMA preferred. I have only achieved upto 10-20MBs speed but way better than the throttled speed on their monitored LTE bands. I used 82GB on one of my phones in one month. I switched to Suddenlink finally a few months ago. Maybe this info will help you.
I can't figure out how to trick AT&T into letting me do hotspot on my rooted Pixel 4 XL with root. Worked no problem on Android 10, but lal my hacks have fallen to the wayside after the upgrade.
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ScrapMaker said:
I can't figure out how to trick AT&T into letting me do hotspot on my rooted Pixel 4 XL with root. Worked no problem on Android 10, but lal my hacks have fallen to the wayside after the upgrade.
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Same issue in my pixel 2xl. Build.prop mods used to work great until Android 11. The hotspot still connects but no internet is available you the connected device. I'll keep looking to see if I can get it working.
Look for an application called "VPN Hotspot." It allows you to send the hotspot over some sort of fake vpn, or use your real one as well. It's not entirely seamless but there is a monitor mode that you can enable after every boot that will do the vpn trick anytime you turn on native tethering. If works around the aforementioned no-internet problems.
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Can you explain to me the difference between tethering and hotspot?
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Tethering is sharing your internet connection (through WiFi, bluetooth or usb) from one device with another device. A hotspot is just a WiFi transmission that you can connect to for internet service.
The most common way to tether is to create a WiFi hotspot on your phone and connect another device to it.
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Tethering is sharing your internet connection (through WiFi, bluetooth or usb) from one device with another device. A hotspot is just a WiFi transmission that you can connect to for internet service.
The most common way to tether is to create a WiFi hotspot on your phone and connect another device to it.
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Most people use the terms interchangeably. I wouldn't get too hung up on it.
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Look for an application called "VPN Hotspot." It allows you to send the hotspot over some sort of fake vpn, or use your real one as well. It's not entirely seamless but there is a monitor mode that you can enable after every boot that will do the vpn trick anytime you turn on native tethering. If works around the aforementioned no-internet problems.
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Which monitors mode did you activate to get native tethering working? Netlink monitoring with root?
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Which monitors mode did you activate to get native tethering working? Netlink monitoring with root?
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Pixel 4 XL, AT&T(no hotspot plan,) and Google Fi(no need for this app on this SIM)
- Rooted with Magisk Canary.
- Disabled IPv6.
- Enabled Tethering hardware acceleration.
- Enabled Repeater safe mode.
- Network status monitor mode: Netlink monitor with root.
It's still a bit annoying that this cannot be started as a service when the phone boots up, but based on all the comments from the dev, that's not on the roadmap. I just use the quicksetting toggle. I also use Tasker to alert when my tether is not properly running. I could ghetto-rig Tasker to start it, but haven't decided whether or not it's worth the frustration. Any time you do things with clicks instead of API, it gets messy.
AT&T does not have any starter plan for hotspot. Verizon has unlimited hotspot plan.
When you have used your data. You have speed limit. And only new plan can change speed.
Best is search near by public network. Or try to find Wi-Fi password. There are many free internet public network available. But keep good anti virus and firewall on when using public network.
finally after buying unlocked phones from directly from samsung AT&T no longer allows native tethering.
After the last samsung update I can no longer use native tethering, it scans for something in the systems and comes back saying my plan doesn't support tethering,
this after tethering just before the update go figure
I just had this happen on my note 9 (unlocked), i think it was the latest patch update as well. It looks it applying at&t updates to my non-at&t phone... So annoying.
Edit: Used odin to flash back to FUB1, i think it was FUD2 where it start checking provision/tether. FU ATT
Recently, I sent up my laptop with VirtualBox, a Virtual Machine Manager. I had issues getting my VM clients to function through the Windows Defender Firewall. I solved this by creating an advanced custom outbound rule with address range SCOPE which allowed the VirtualBox clients through the firewall on the Private Network where the VirtualBox clients were configured to use a bridged adapter mapped to the wireless adapter for the laptop. This might provide some insight to how the mobile phones Private Network is setup and controlled by the telecom provider.
My Problem: The Microsoft Windows Defender Private Network is blocking VM applications like Android Studio from reaching the internet through a bridged adapter, and maybe a NAT adapter too.
Solution: The following outbound rule fixes the problem allowing Virtual Machine clients access to the internet.
Windows Defender - Firewall using New Custom Outbound Rule
ORACLE VirtualBox 6.1 and Virtual Machine IPs
Add two Private Network address ranges to SCOPE
Add Both Ranges to both Local and Remote Scope
192.168.43.1 to 192.168.43.254 => DHCP Implementation with Wi-Fi Tethering
192.168.42.1 to 192.168.42.254 => DHCP Implementation with USB Tethering
* You might be able to restrict the Remote Scope range to just those IP Addresses used by the clients, especially Virtual Machine clients.
NOTES:
1.) DHCP Implementation with a Bluetooth connection is not addressed here.
2.) As you can see, I excluded the following IP addresses in each Class C IP Address Range.
192.168.42.0, 192.168.42.255 <-- DO NOT USE for USB Tethering
192.168.43.0, 192.168.43.255 <-- DO NOT USE for Wireless Tethering
192.168.x.0 is a reserved Class C base address
192.168.x.255 is a reserved Class C broadcast address
3.) For those Android versions before Android 9 which also supported built-in tethering in the OS, the Default Gateway was fixed:
192.168.43.1 => DHCP Implementation with Wi-Fi Tethering
192.168.42.1 => DHCP Implementation with USB Tethering
I do not know how a DHCP Implementation works with Bluetooth
4.) For the Android 9, the Default Gateway changes dynamically every time tethering is disabled and re-enabled, a possible security feature, maybe anti-hacking feature. I found this documented, but I also have experienced this outcome with the Razer Phone 2 running with Android 9. So, I wondered why this change was made from a Static Fixed IP for the Default Gateway on a Private Network as mentioned in note item 3.
5. I am using Wi-Fi tethering, so my Wireless Network Connection 2, Intel(R) Centrino(R) Ultimate-N 6300 AGN Wireless Adapter shows 192.168.43.XXX with ipconfig in Windows 10 which is a DHCP assigned Class C Private Network Address. You can see the Default Gateway address below as 192.168.43.YYY
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection 2:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2607:fb90:e00e:87a3:9186:bcf5:6347:21c
Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : 2607:fb90:e00e:87a3:ddb0:b5e4:2bba:34b
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::9186:bcf5:6347:21c%12
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.43.XXX
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : fe80::465e:cdff:feb2:d933%12
192.168.43.YYY
6. My vEthernet (Default Switch), Hyper-V Virtual Ethernet Adapter, is showing 172.18.XXX.XXX with ipconfig in Windows 10 which is a DHCP assigned Class B Private Network Address. Since I am not using a Fixed-Wire connection to a router with my laptop, I am not sure if this adapter does anything for me, likely nothing right now.
Ethernet adapter vEthernet (Default Switch):
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::c86d:734d:506c:b72b%30
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 172.18.82.XXX
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.240
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
Questions I began to ask myself:
1. Can I disable the DHCP server on my Android 9 smartphone? If you can disable DHCP by disabling a flag somewhere, then how do you manually establish a new static Gateway address to link to the external Public Network IP on the smartphone?
2. Can I set up and use static IP address ranges to connect my host and VM clients to the mobile hotspot? -- I do not think so because the telecom providers want to know when you are tethering which may be money driven on certain mobile smartphone plans.
3. Does Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 allow the ability to set static addresses on the device?
--Windows 10 - Yes.
--Ubuntu VM - Yes, both using the UI or in Terminal mode. Go to Settings | Network in the UI. In Terminal mode, there are different approaches to configuring static IP addresses.
--Supposedly, using Static IP Addresses improves the start up performance of your Host and VM operating systems.
4. Can I set a Private Network Static IP address on Windows 10 as host and Ubuntu 20.04 as VM and leave the Gateway address blank? Will a blank Gateway address then use the Default Gateway established by the DHCP server?
I watched a video which described how to set up Static IP Addresses on Host and VM client devices, but that might have applied only to Android versions before Android 9 before the Default Gateway address was set or made fixed by the Android OS for Android OS versions before Android 9. If the VM client gateway addresses are now part of a closed IP stack or fixed address range, I think you can set a fixed client IP address in Ubuntu v20.04 running as a virtual machine with VirtualBox v6.1.
5. If your smartphone is Android 9 and earlier, it may be possible to change the Private Network IP Address Range dynamically assigned by the smartphones DHCP server. Does this block the telecom provider from detecting whether tethering is being used? -- I think the answer may be yes. Does it block the telecom provider from detecting the amount of data transmitted using the built-in tethering? -- I think the answer may be yes.
6. Can other VPN apps be loaded on Android devices and not use the build-in tethering function for VPN Wireless connectivity?
--I have a Zte Grand X Max Plus running Android 4.4 (KitKat). I used a third-party application for a VPN wireless connection which turned my mobile phone into a mobile hotspot. This mobile phone did not have any build-in tethering function. The telecom provider may be able to detect these third-party VPN Wireless applications, maybe block them, possibly even remove those apps from your mobile phone.
7. Does the Android 9 smartphone using the DHCP server cache the last used client IP addresses for the client devices and attempt to reissue them again?
--I read some documentation that seemed to indicate this. I also see that happening when I shutdown and restart my Virtual Machines. I do not know if there is some session control or expiration of these dynamically assigned IP Addresses.
8. Can I change the default hotspot DHCP IP address range on Android? -- See Reference #2 item below.
--It appears that this may be possible with Android smartphones versions 9 and earlier. Android 10 and Android 11 may have moved to using a separate ROM Private Network adapter that will not allow the ability to change the default IP Address Range. And it is also unclear whether you can assign static addresses to client devices on Android version 10 and 11 within the DHCP authorized address range. If the client address has already been assigned dynamically at least once, you might be able to change that client device to using that address as a Static IP Address. What you do not want is the DHCP server attempting to assign an IP address to a client device when that IP address is already being used by another device; I would hope that the system is smart enough to avoid this IP collision.
9. Can changing default hotspot DHCP IP address range on Android by-pass any throttling by the telecom provider and allow greater access to unlimited data? This is possible, maybe even likely the case with older Android smartphones. Why else are people trying to figure this VPN stuff out? Why are the telecom companies moving to using ROM chips as network adapters, more specifically tethering network adapters?
-- It is all about the money for tethering services, I think. Telecom companies or the government wants to control how you use your data or more easily monitor or filter your IP traffic. They want to segment the type of data used to standard smartphone data and track premium tethering data. Will someone discover a hack around these ROM network chips for Android 10 and Android 11? Who knows.
10. If the default hotspot DHCP IP address range on Android could be changed/altered by the consumer and the DHCP server disabled, how do we get connect the dynamically public assigned IPv4 Address from the from the Android smartphone to our custom Private Network (VPN) and link to the established Gateway address?
--You can accomplish this behavior with a router at home, establishing a bridge between the Android smartphone and the home router. And how do we do this without a router? You can establish an alternate (sub)network configuration in Windows 10, and then have Windows 10 share their connection with other devices. But these paths likely do not bypass the throttling limitations set by the telecom provider. But, these options might allow you to connect more devices with NAT to the internet than the telecom might normally permit directly to the phone. Not sure, but I am just making an educated guess here.
I hope that some of my research and related experience helps. I think reference #2 below might be the best shot at trying to bypass throttling limitations with the telecom provider. The other option is to activate and older phone with a telecom provider that gives you more options as a mobile hotspot using an older mobile OS on the phone.
I found the following references useful:
References:
1.) How configure the DHCP settings of WIFI Tethering (Hotspot) on Android?
How configure the DHCP settings of WIFI Tethering (Hotspot) on Android?
When connecting my PC to Android Wi-Fi hotspot, it assigned a 192.168.42.x address to my PC. I really need to change this as it conflicts with one of our work subnets - is this possible?
android.stackexchange.com
2.) How to change the default hotspot DHCP IP address range on Android? *** HACK ***
How to change the default hotspot DHCP IP address range on Android?
As the title says I look for a way to permanently change the default IP address range form 192.168.43.xxx to 192.168.1.xxx. Reason: On my router some of my devices get a static IP trough DHCP, in ...
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3.) How can I permanently assign a static IP address to Wi-Fi or USB tether clients?
How can I permanently assign a static IP address to Wi-Fi or USB tether clients?
I use my phone as an extended display with x11vnc, which works as intended. The only issue is, that I have to change the IP address on the VNC client on my phone, very often. Because of dynamic DH...
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4.) How can I permanently change my hotspot tethering IP address?
How can I permanently change my hotspot tethering IP address?
IP address is 192.168.43.1 by default and there is no option to change it permanently. Is it possible to change it without root access? My phone is Huawei Android 5.1.
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5. How do I find my public IPv4 Address on my Razer Phone 2, Android 9 phone?
You can obtain it from a browser. See https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-find-ip-address-on-windows
6. How do I find my public IPv6 Address on my Razer Phone 2, Android 9 phone?
Go to Settings | System | About phone | IP address
7. Private Address Ranges
Private Address Ranges
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has assigned several address ranges to be used by private networks.
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My system setup:
Hardware Platform
Laptop: DELL Latitude
Model: E6420
Installed Physical Memory (RAM): 16.0 GB
Host Operating System
MSINFO32.exe
Host OS Name: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Version: 10.0.18362 Build 18362
Host IP: 192.168.43.XXX
Virtual Box - VM Manager
/usr/sbin/VBoxService --version
6.1.26r145957
Guest OS Name: Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 (Linux) => https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop
Version: ubuntu-20.04.2.0-desktop-amd64.iso, VBoxGuestAdditions_6.1.26.iso
Remote IP, Guest: 192.168.43.xxx with Wi-Fi Hotspot
Local IP, Default Route/Gateway: 192.168.43.xxx changes dynamically with the Razer Phone 2 and Android 9 every time tethering is disabled and re-enabled.
Guest OS Name: Android-x86 9.0 ("Pie") => see http://www.Android-x86.org
Version: android-x86_64-9.0-r2.iso
Remote IP, Guest: 192.168.43.xxx with Wi-Fi Hotspot
Local IP, Default Route/Gateway: 192.168.43.xxx changes dynamically every time tethering is disabled and re-enabled.
Mobile Hardware Smartphone: Razer Phone 2
Operating System: Android 9.0
Thursday, April 28th, 2022
Handling Outbound Connections
I ran across a related or similar link today; my same solution works for this issue. For me this was simply a Microsoft Windows Firewall issue for VirtualBox and Ubuntu as a VM.
Virtual box is not working on windows 10
I have installed virtual box But when I tried to run it. It shows me an error as: I have been trying everything for whole day. Like there are answers related to this question as: VT-x is not avai...
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1. Go to Microsoft Windows Defender
2. Create an Outbound Custom Rule
3. Create the following Scope and Address Range
192.168.43.1-192.168.43.254 - Set the following address range.
192.168.43.X - Address of Ubuntu VM on VirtualBox
4. Provide a name for the new custom rule such as VirtualBox (or "VirtualBox Outbound Rule").
Alternatively, the Custom Outbound Rule allows you to pick programs that you want to allow through the firewall.
1. Go to Microsoft Windows Defender
2. Select "This program path:"
3. Go to the following folder: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox
4. This is where I am stuck on which process to pick to allow through the firewall. I see applications such as "VirtualBox.exe", "VirtualBoxVM.exe", "VBoxManage.exe", "VBoxSVC.exe", "VBoxNetNAT.exe", "VBoxNetDHCP.exe" and others. For this reason, I took the IP path which appeared easier to solve. If I just allow the IP Address for a client or IP Addresses for all clients through the firewall, I do not have to worry about what VirtualBox executables or applications I have to give firewall permissions to. I someone knows the answer, I would love to know that answer.
Handling Inbound Connections (Optional)
I am thinking here about use of inbound connection rules, when they could be used, and how an Inbound Rule would be setup for smartphone which are tethering to the internet.
1. You might need an Inbound Rule if a connection is going to initiate or come inbound via the host computer IP to the VirtualBox virtual machine. Does the firewall have to be configured with an inbound rule for the host operating system to make an inbound connection to the Virtual Machine and maybe to a specific application with a port number?
2. You might also need an inbound rule if other computers exist the same private network.
a.) INBOUND CONNECTION from GUEST-REMOTE-CLIENT OS to VIRTUAL MACHINE OS, USING ONE SMARTPHONE as WI-FI HUB: One way this can happen is if a tethered smartphone itself acts as a Wi-Fi hub to more than one computer on the same private network. I have done this with work associates at a coffee shop on a rare occasions. I think that smartphone manufacturers and/or telecom providers allow a tethered smartphone device to possibly have up to five inbound client network connections to a smartphone serving as a Wi-Fi hub.
b.) INBOUND CONNECTION from ONE CLIENT LAPTOP to VIRTUAL MACHINE on ANOTHER CLIENT LAPTOP, USING A PHYSICAL HUB (WIRED | WIRELESS): I have also exposed my laptop to a traveling mini-hub configured with a shared private network subnet so that my friends could connect to the internet using fixed wire ethernet cables I also had with me. With a physical mini-hub supporting Network Address Translation (NAT), the five-connection limitation does not exist; the number of ports on your hub is your limitation. The physical hub using NAT makes all hub connections appear as one with my laptop, all sharing my laptop connection which is tethering to my smartphone and the internet. I did this once or twice when I did not have tethering technology built into my smartphone which my Razer Phone 2 does have. If five devices can access the internet and the same private network through a tethered smartphone acting as a Wi-Fi hub, they could be networked optionally to be able to see other computers on the same private network. And, If that is true, then another laptop could connect to a VM running on another friend's laptop. Software developers working together might want to share a VM, for example, that has an OS with a database server running on the virtual machine.
c.) INBOUND CONNECTION from ONE LAPTOP with PUBLIC LAPTOP IP routed to a VIRTUAL MACHINE on ANOTHER LAPTOP with PUBLIC LAPTOP IP: I am not sure if two people can share a VM running a server operating system where two people would each use their own smartphones and one of the parties would access a friends VM through a public IP address. The user with the VM would have to share their PUBLIC IP address information and tethering password maybe for access as a GUEST USER. The external remote user 's laptop connection would have to be routed to the local user's Guest VM OS Ubuntu on a VM manager like VirtualBox, possibly then also to an application like an ORACLE database having the appropriate port number allowing for an inbound connection to an application. Can tethered remote smartphones route a friend's laptop with an external IP address, forwarding an inbound connection to a VM Guest OS? Can you also then route to a port restricting use to a certain application running on a server like a SQL Server database.
Notes: McAfee Security for T-Mobile has an option called "Sharing your device? Try Guest Mode". This app has two options called "Accessibility" and "Draw Over Apps". "Guest mode" it reads lets you control what others see on your device. I have not explored these yet. This is one side or part of Security. The other part would be the necessary routing of a Remote User to the a Guest VM OS on another laptop using an internet connection from another smartphone, this also possibly requiring inbound connection routing with Microsoft Windows Defender, routing the Guest user to the VM. I did find some router Android apps on Google Play. So, maybe somebody has tried this out.
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I have tried for a while to share my internet connect ion from my vista laptop with my wm device over wifi and could never get it to work.. last night I got it working by giving my device a static ip and maually configurin g dns servers. I think the problem is that with dhcp enabled vista wants to give me an ipv6 address, and perhaps wm does not know how to properly ignore ipv6 requests. With dhcp enabled if i look under the network adaptor settings the server assigned ip looks like a v6 address. I tried disabling v6 on all my network adaptors in vista but still no go. Is there a fix for this?
Go to the Vista machine. Open up Help and Support and Type in:
Set up a computer-to-computer (ad hoc) network
Should be the first link.
Just remember, once you disconect either the PC or Phone you will not be able to re connect correctly and the entire process has to be reset up.
So keep in mind dont tell either device to remember the network otherwise you will end up with hundreds.
Hi everyone,
I would like to connect to my laptop next room from local network. I can connect perfectly when I type in my IP address into the first textbox (Computer), but I can't connect when I type in my Computer Name (full computer name) instead. I tried MyPCName as Computer, \\MyPCName as Computer, forwarding port 3389 to my IP, leaving domain name empty, putting in my workgroup name as a domain, putting in my computer name as a domain, putting in myPCName\MyUserName as Username, \\MyPCName as Computer, still the same. It won't connect unless I put in the IP address. I would like to do this since my workplace assigns a different IP to my laptop then I assign at home, but naturally I have the same computer name at both places, so I would like to have a permanent setting for both places.
I'm running Windows 7 64 bit on my laptop and 1.66.405.2 ROM on my HTC HD2.
Many thanks in advance.
can you connect to it ok using another computer? might be a dns issue at a guess...
I can connect from other computers fine. Also on my HD2 I can see the host names of PC's under Resco Explorer and map them. However, remote desktop mobile refuses to work with the Computer Name. I can ping my Laptop's IP and also Computer name from pingbox2. Only in Remote Desktop Mobile there is a problem.
windows 7 by default blocks remote desktop connections from different versions of remote desktop. if you right click computer and select properties, then choose remote settings on the right hand side and select the middle option (accept connections from all verions of remote desktop). havent tried this my self but it solves most issues when using different versions of windows
OK, I sort of figured it but would still appreciate some help. Here is how I got it to work:
I had OpenDNS IP under DNS settings for wireless adapter. I deleted them. If I don't do this, pinging my computer name from HD2 always brings 67.215.65.132, which is opendns and not my true local IP, i.e. 192.168.x.x. I also had to disable the data connection (3G) and only have wireless. If I don't disable 3G, I can only connect with IP and not computer name. Only after doing these 2, when I pinged my computer name, I got the true local IP and I was able to connect with Remote Desktop Mobile using computer name. Now my question is:
1- I don't want to quit using opendns, is it possible?
2- I don't want to disable 3G connection every time, is it possible?
thanks in advance.
For me it works with MyPCName in computer and empty domain, both for XP and 7.
Something seems strange with your phone's networking configuration. At a guess (and this is a long shot), I would check your VPN settings on your phone to make sure you're not connecting to a different domain over 3G as this might explain why it works when you turn off the data connection on the phone and why it works by IP address.
As I said though, it's a long shot and is the only thing I could think of that fits your particular symptoms...
ozkaya said:
OK, I sort of figured it but would still appreciate some help. Here is how I got it to work:
I had OpenDNS IP under DNS settings for wireless adapter. I deleted them. If I don't do this, pinging my computer name from HD2 always brings 67.215.65.132, which is opendns and not my true local IP, i.e. 192.168.x.x. I also had to disable the data connection (3G) and only have wireless. Only after doing these 2, when I pinged my computer name, I got the true local IP and I was able to connect with Remote Desktop Mobile using computer name. Now my question is:
1- I don't want to quit using opendns, is it possible?
2- I don't want to disable 3G connection every time, is it possible?
thanks in advance.
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about the open dns issues, I suspect that can be solved by making sure your router lets the incoming connection into your home network (you say it resolves to 66.whatever when open dns is used, shouldn't be a problem do long as you don't forget that will be your home ip address so that connection will neef to be allowed through the router and then forwarded by your routers virtual server (our whatever your router software calls out) to your laptops internal ip address.
as for the 3g it should use wifi over 3g by default..... mine certainly does, no need for me to disable it.
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Something seems strange with your phone's networking configuration. At a guess (and this is a long shot), I would check your VPN settings on your phone to make sure you're not connecting to a different domain over 3G as this might explain why it works when you turn off the data connection on the phone and why it works by IP address.
As I said though, it's a long shot and is the only thing I could think of that fits your particular symptoms...
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I think you're right, when the 3G is on (and also Wifi on), Resco shows computers from all around the country when I click computers near me and not my local network. When only wifi is on I can see my local computers. 3G probably has precedence over Wifi? How can I correct this?
samsamuel said:
about the open dns issues, I suspect that can be solved by making sure your router lets the incoming connection into your home network (you say it resolves to 66.whatever when open dns is used, shouldn't be a problem do long as you don't forget that will be your home ip address so that connection will neef to be allowed through the router and then forwarded by your routers virtual server (our whatever your router software calls out) to your laptops internal ip address.
as for the 3g it should use wifi over 3g by default..... mine certainly does, no need for me to disable it.
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But the 66.whatever address is generic openDNS lookup IP and same for everyone. Are you suggesting me to route this IP to my local IP, i.e. 192.168.x.x? Oh, one more thing, I can also connect when 3g and wifi are both on, but only through computer's IP and not computer name. Can you connect with computer name while both are on and connected?
when your phone does a dns lookup on the name it resolves to the open dns assigned address (not the same for everyone, otherwise the open fns system wouldn't work) so to connect to your computer the phone sends its request to open dns who forward that request to your current actual address.at home that address is your home ip address BUT it isn't your laptops address it is your routers address.(stop reading here if you don't have a router).
so the router needs to be told "if you get a connection request in port (whatever the remote desktop port is) please forward it to (laptop ip address)
its called port forwarding in some routers, virtual server in others.
samsamuel said:
so the router needs to be told "if you get a connection request in port (whatever the remote desktop port is) please forward it to (laptop ip address)
its called port forwarding in some routers, virtual server in others.
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You're mixing up things a bit - he's not using dns but the computer netbios name. The point is that he has wifi on and connected as well as 3G, thus with an "intranet" ip address on Wifi... so the program/phone should be looking up the name on that connection, where it would find it, instead of looking up over the 3G connection. As the netbios protocol is not routable, it has no chance of finding the computer name over 3G/internet and back home, even with port mappings.
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You're mixing up things a bit - he's not using dns but the computer netbios name. The point is that he has wifi on and connected as well as 3G, thus with an "intranet" ip address on Wifi... so the program/phone should be looking up the name on that connection, where it would find it, instead of looking up over the 3G connection. As the netbios protocol is not routable, it has no chance of finding the computer name over 3G/internet and back home, even with port mappings.
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you're totally right, I have a router and its port is forwarded to my laptop IP, but this is only good (and works well too) when I want to connect from Internet to my local network. I tried OpenDNS exceptions for VPN and defined an exception named as MyComputerName but it didn't work. Then I tried a dyndns solution, but it only works for external connections and not local network, i.e. it can't map local IP's. What I need is a dynamic client which can update my local IP.
I also tried to edit hosts entry in the registry with MyComputerName. It works for a single IP, but I'm not sure if I can write multiple IP adresses (my work and home local IP) into that. If I could maybe everything would be OK.
I've just tried a couple of things and it really works fine for me. If I connect Wifi only, I can remote desktop with the computer name. If I then connect data connection, it still works. Disabling wifi and obviously it doesn't work anymore. Re enabling wifi, it doesn't work at first, but does again after ~30 seconds once the netbios protocol has done its host lookup procedures.
There simply shouldn't be anything special to do.
kilrah said:
I've just tried a couple of things and it really works fine for me. If I connect Wifi only, I can remote desktop with the computer name. If I then connect data connection, it still works. Disabling wifi and obviously it doesn't work anymore. Re enabling wifi, it doesn't work at first, but does again after ~30 seconds once the netbios protocol has done its host lookup procedures.
There simply shouldn't be anything special to do.
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thank you very much for your time, I appreciate it. You're right in that waiting a bit resolves the issue (it's a bit more than 30 secs for me that's why I thought it wasn't working when 3G is enabled) but only when OpenDNS is not used. I assume you don't use OpenDNS, right? Once I put that one into equation, it takes over NetBIOS protocol and returns its IP instead of the local IP(192.168.x.x). As far as I understand, DNS lookup has precedence over NETBIOS and if the name is not found in DNS it consults NETBIOS protocol. However OpenDNS has this nice "feature" where it finds the name with its own IP. There are several posts about this on its webpage and they say to either disable the typo correction or put exceptions for Netbios names, but sadly none of them works for me right now.
Nope, no OpenDNS, never actually heard of it.
How does it work? Do you enter their DNS server address in the network settings of your pc/phone, or is it an app you run?
you click Start/Settings/All Settings/Connections/Wifi/First Button/Switch to Network Adapters tab/Select Broadcom 802.11 DHD Network Adapter/Switch to Name Servers Tab/Type in 208.67.222.222 for primary DNS and 208.67.220.220 for secondary DNS, click OK. that's all. Could you try if it's not so much trouble? Thanks.
OK, remote desktop doesn't work either with the OpenDNS servers in.
I'm pretty sure it must be a limitation of the remote desktop app itself, as resco explorer can still navigate and/or discover the network shares of my other PCs with no problem. NBTStatCE also finds everybody.
Wouldn't even surprise me, as that Remote desktop mobile has always been troublesome. I don't remember exactly, but in the WM5 days it was pretty much impossible to use on a local network due to a weird handling of names... if I remember well all "local" (NetBIOS) addresses without a '.' entered in the remote desktop app would be redirected to the "Work" connection, while "remote" ones with a period would be directed on the "Internet" connection. As a network card can only be defined as one of them, if you wanted it to work in both cases through Wifi you had to switch the card from Work to Internet and back all the time. And of course when it's on Work it breaks some other things that use the default system handling like mail.
Here is basically a run-down of what I did. I hope this helps everyone out.
Device specs:
Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0 Rooted
Network Specs:
DSL Modem
Router (DHCP with WPA security and does not have MAC Filtering)
4 Access Points (all on same channel broadcasting same SSID with same WPA security DHCP)
2 Servers - Static IPs
-Server 1 - DNS (not sure if it is actually a DNS server or just forwards the requests). Also storage/application server.
-Server 2 - Storage/Application/SQL server
Many clients on network (unsure of total amount but somewhere around 30 would be my guess)
Problem (note this is only on this network, every other network wifi
works just fine):
Wifi Connected but no internet.
My Windows 7 laptop (same network) gets internet access with no problems
No reports of any other clients on the network having this issue
Device has assigned a good DHCP IP address
Subnet, Gateway, and DNS IPs are all correct (they match the ones on my laptop)
Connection strength is great (speed is 52mbps)
Device has full local access (intranet). It can access all files and other devices on the network.
On occasion the device will get "internet" access for a brief period of time but will go back to "intranet" access only after a few minutes.
Tests Performed (My android device will be referred to as "device" my laptop will be reffered to as "laptop". All tests were performed with both laptop and device connected to the network in question, unless otherwise specified, and device was not able to access internet):
Ping from laptop to device - Successful
Ping from device to laptop - Successful
Ping from laptop to gateway - Successful
Ping from device to gateway - Failed
Resolve DNS IP on device - Successful
Resolve DNS IP on laptop - Successful
Ping from laptop to google - Successful
Ping from device to google - Failed
Small FTP file transfer from laptop to device - Successful
Small FTP file transfer from device to laptop - Successful
Device has no problems on other networks (tried un-secured, WEP, and WPA/WPA2)
Connect device using Google public DNS servers
-Intranet - Successful
-Internet - Failed
-Resolve DNS IP - Successful
Connect laptop using Google public DNS servers
-Intranet - Successful
-Internet - Successful
-Resolve DNS IP - Successful
More that I cannot remember right now. Will add as they come to me.
At this point I gave up for a few days. Every test and every bit of research returned nothing. I had spent many many hours trying to figure this out and testing theories and nothing ever pointed me in the right direction of where to go. Nothing made sense EVERY single setting is the same is on my laptop. Started thinking maybe there was something in the router that could be blocking Android devices (since it is a work network). Although I am not a aware of a router feature to do that I figure I would try some more tests.
Testing Round 2 (same conditions as initial tests):
Configured laptop to be a Wifi hotspot.
-From CMD command 1: netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=AP key=XXXXXXXXX
-From CMD command 2: netsh wlan start hostednetwork
-From network and sharing center: Shared the physical wireless network connection with the Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter.
-The above commands create a virtual wireless adapter and set it broadcast the specified SSID with the specified WPA security key. Then you can choose any available, connected, physical, internet connection and share it's internet connection with the virtual connection, thus theorectically turning my laptop into a 5th access point on the network.
Connected device to the SSID "AP"
-Intranet - Successful
-Internet - SUCCESSFUL
Horray!!!! Progress! So with the above information I went to our IT guy and we sat down and looked at some stuff (settings in the router, access points, and servers). After digging and digging around within the settings we came up with.... you guessed it NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I was in "Its on!" mode and decided I wasn't going to stop until I found out at least what was causing the problem. My IT guy was also very determined to figure this out as he doesn't like to get beat either. So we both went at it. We decided the first thing to do was make a very detailed network map containing every piece of information we could possibly find. We did this all from his machine (laptop with Windows 7) and wrote everything down on paper (we even used a piece of our 36" wide roll paper from our plotter to make sure everything would fit) and made an excel spredsheet with all the info. Now with the newly aquired network information I decided I was going to do more testing.
Testing Round 3 (same conditions as initial test):
Map the entire network again gathering every piece of information possible just like before but this time using MY DEVICE (not my laptop).
Compare
Finally! I have found the problem! As stated before my device was getting the correct gateway IP (XXX.XXX.XXX.1) which is the same as my laptop). However the assigned MAC address OF THE GATEWAY (router) to my device is XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:FB but the MAC address OF THE GATEWAY (router) to my laptop is XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:FA. Got back with our IT guy and we found (by looking the router config) that the XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:FA is the LAN MAC address for the router. The XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:FB is the WAN MAC address for the router.
Testing Round 4 (same conditions as intial test):
Connected laptop to network, confirmed XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:FA MAC address was assigned for the gateway by running "arp -a" in CMD.
-Pinged google - Passed
-Changed assigned MAC address of gateway by running "arp -s XXX.XXX.XXX.1 XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:FB" in CMD
-Verified new MAC address assignment by running "arp -a" in CMD
-Pinged google - Failed
-Changed the MAC back and pinged google again - Successful
Connected device to network, confirmed XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:FB MAC address was assigned for the gateway by running "arp -a" in Terminal.
-Pinged google - Failed
-Changed assigned MAC address of gateway by running "su" then "arp -s XXX.XXX.XXX.1 XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:FA" in Terminal
-Verified new MAC address assignment by running "arp -a" in Terminal
-Pinged google - Successful
-Changed the MAC back and pinged google again - Failed
Conclusion:
For some reason the device is getting assigned the correct gateway IP but the wrong gateway MAC. This is allowing the device to connect to the network but not communicate with the router. Since it can't communicate with the router any "Internet" requests time out because the packets have to go through the router to make it to the "Internet". Since it is not blocked from the network it can still connect and communicate with other clients on the "Intranet" but not the router.
Our IT guy thinks there is a client somewhere on the network in the same subnet that is configured in this matter and it just so happens that for some reason my device is picking that up when it connects. He is going to look into it more when time permits but since we are very busy and we have already spent way too much time on this, and I now know at least what the issue is, he is going to move on for now.
Why would my device be picking up the WAN MAC address of the router?
What would be responsible for assigning a WAN or LAN MAC address?
How can I prevent this?
Has anyone ever experienced anything like this?
Temporary Solution (must be rooted):
Open your favorite terminal app on your device.
-Enter "su" (without quotes)
-Enter "arp -s [Your gateway IP here] [Your gateway's LAN MAC address here]
Browse away!!!!!
Hello.
I had the same problem, that I could connect to router but had no connection to internet.
Read this post and started to do some research on my router. When I configurated my router, there was an option to clone MAC address. And of course to get it done fast I cloned MAC. And now I checked that it cloned my laptop MAC. Changed MAC from laptop to Routers MAC (must be on label under router) and got a really nice internet connection.
Hi, I think I have the same problem with the same device, Samsung Galaxy Player 4, but even if my device is rooted I still can't excecute the "arp" command from the Terminal application (there is no "arp" command). How can I check/modify the arp list on my device???
I really appreciate your help. Thanks in advance!!!
I use the terminal emulator app. It works just fine for me and I never had to download any other software to be able to run the ARP command.
bmx0964 said:
Here is basically a run-down of what I did. I hope this helps everyone out.
Temporary Solution (must be rooted):
Open your favorite terminal app on your device.
-Enter "su" (without quotes)
-Enter "arp -s [Your gateway IP here] [Your gateway's LAN MAC address here]
Browse away!!!!!
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anyone found a solution to this ?
just updated to ics4 and cannot connect to the internet.
You only have one device that assigns IP adresses, right?
How about changing the channel to see if that works? or maybe even the security protocol
greeky510 said:
You only have one device that assigns IP adresses, right?
How about changing the channel to see if that works? or maybe even the security protocol
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the only thing that worked for me is to turn on the dhcp option
in my router. previously, i was using static ips
may_east said:
the only thing that worked for me is to turn on the dhcp option
in my router. previously, i was using static ips
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I had the sams problem. I could connect with my wifi but had no internet acces. The solution here was the wifi encription.
My smartphone could not encript the hard encription I think. With WEP encription it all works well.
Hey guys,
Here's a run down of the problem I'm currently having. A few months ago I purchased a Dapeng A75 currently running ICS 4.0. Although a beautiful and fast phone, just recently it started going out of wack.
- Youtube and Play Store hang on "Loading" screen
- My Gmail accounts won't sync
- I can no longer search on Google.com with ANY browser through WiFi. (I do not have data service on my phone)
I've tried several attempts at troubleshooting this, all which have failed.
- I restored my phone to factory default.
- Uninstalled and reinstalled these apps.
- Downgraded the apps to previous versions.
- Cleared my cache on just about everything.
- Release and renewed my IP in Terminal.
Just recently I noticed a CWM recovery image posted and I figure this is the only solution. Wiping out the phone and flashing a fresh ROM but unfortunately I can only get as far as installing the drivers to my Windows 7 machine. Some reason when I plug the phone in after installing the drivers, Windows will prompt me that the device is plugged in but before I get a chance to hit F9 for SP Flash Tool to do it's thing, the device quickly disconnects.
NOTE: I am able to browse Google via WiFi only by using HotSpot Shield VPN (Which is problematic in itself).
I'm currently losing the battle with this phone and at my wits end. Is there anyone out there who is experiencing the same situation or has some sort of solution which doesn't involve be shelling out more money for a new phone?
good work brother
i understood the above problem n i too experienced the same problems so now i will take ur research to next level n see my know of network .
i appreciate all the work done you , in research of this LITTLE but hetic problem.
i have learned a lot through u r research.
n will do more n keep u guys posted if i found somthing on this
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bmx0964 said:
Here is basically a run-down of what I did. I hope this helps everyone out.
Device specs:
Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0 Rooted
Network Specs:
DSL Modem
Router (DHCP with WPA security and does not have MAC Filtering)
4 Access Points (all on same channel broadcasting same SSID with same WPA security DHCP)
2 Servers - Static IPs
-Server 1 - DNS (not sure if it is actually a DNS server or just forwards the requests). Also storage/application server.
-Server 2 - Storage/Application/SQL server
Many clients on network (unsure of total amount but somewhere around 30 would be my guess)
Problem (note this is only on this network, every other network wifi
works just fine):
Wifi Connected but no internet.
My Windows 7 laptop (same network) gets internet access with no problems
No reports of any other clients on the network having this issue
Device has assigned a good DHCP IP address
Subnet, Gateway, and DNS IPs are all correct (they match the ones on my laptop)
Connection strength is great (speed is 52mbps)
Device has full local access (intranet). It can access all files and other devices on the network.
On occasion the device will get "internet" access for a brief period of time but will go back to "intranet" access only after a few minutes.
Tests Performed (My android device will be referred to as "device" my laptop will be reffered to as "laptop". All tests were performed with both laptop and device connected to the network in question, unless otherwise specified, and device was not able to access internet):
Ping from laptop to device - Successful
Ping from device to laptop - Successful
Ping from laptop to gateway - Successful
Ping from device to gateway - Failed
Resolve DNS IP on device - Successful
Resolve DNS IP on laptop - Successful
Ping from laptop to google - Successful
Ping from device to google - Failed
Small FTP file transfer from laptop to device - Successful
Small FTP file transfer from device to laptop - Successful
Device has no problems on other networks (tried un-secured, WEP, and WPA/WPA2)
Connect device using Google public DNS servers
-Intranet - Successful
-Internet - Failed
-Resolve DNS IP - Successful
Connect laptop using Google public DNS servers
-Intranet - Successful
-Internet - Successful
-Resolve DNS IP - Successful
More that I cannot remember right now. Will add as they come to me.
At this point I gave up for a few days. Every test and every bit of research returned nothing. I had spent many many hours trying to figure this out and testing theories and nothing ever pointed me in the right direction of where to go. Nothing made sense EVERY single setting is the same is on my laptop. Started thinking maybe there was something in the router that could be blocking Android devices (since it is a work network). Although I am not a aware of a router feature to do that I figure I would try some more tests.
Testing Round 2 (same conditions as initial tests):
Configured laptop to be a Wifi hotspot.
-From CMD command 1: netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=AP key=XXXXXXXXX
-From CMD command 2: netsh wlan start hostednetwork
-From network and sharing center: Shared the physical wireless network connection with the Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter.
-The above commands create a virtual wireless adapter and set it broadcast the specified SSID with the specified WPA security key. Then you can choose any available, connected, physical, internet connection and share it's internet connection with the virtual connection, thus theorectically turning my laptop into a 5th access point on the network.
Connected device to the SSID "AP"
-Intranet - Successful
-Internet - SUCCESSFUL
Horray!!!! Progress! So with the above information I went to our IT guy and we sat down and looked at some stuff (settings in the router, access points, and servers). After digging and digging around within the settings we came up with.... you guessed it NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I was in "Its on!" mode and decided I wasn't going to stop until I found out at least what was causing the problem. My IT guy was also very determined to figure this out as he doesn't like to get beat either. So we both went at it. We decided the first thing to do was make a very detailed network map containing every piece of information we could possibly find. We did this all from his machine (laptop with Windows 7) and wrote everything down on paper (we even used a piece of our 36" wide roll paper from our plotter to make sure everything would fit) and made an excel spredsheet with all the info. Now with the newly aquired network information I decided I was going to do more testing.
Testing Round 3 (same conditions as initial test):
Map the entire network again gathering every piece of information possible just like before but this time using MY DEVICE (not my laptop).
Compare
Finally! I have found the problem! As stated before my device was getting the correct gateway IP (XXX.XXX.XXX.1) which is the same as my laptop). However the assigned MAC address OF THE GATEWAY (router) to my device is XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:FB but the MAC address OF THE GATEWAY (router) to my laptop is XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:FA. Got back with our IT guy and we found (by looking the router config) that the XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:FA is the LAN MAC address for the router. The XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:FB is the WAN MAC address for the router.
Testing Round 4 (same conditions as intial test):
Connected laptop to network, confirmed XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:FA MAC address was assigned for the gateway by running "arp -a" in CMD.
-Pinged google - Passed
-Changed assigned MAC address of gateway by running "arp -s XXX.XXX.XXX.1 XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:FB" in CMD
-Verified new MAC address assignment by running "arp -a" in CMD
-Pinged google - Failed
-Changed the MAC back and pinged google again - Successful
Connected device to network, confirmed XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:FB MAC address was assigned for the gateway by running "arp -a" in Terminal.
-Pinged google - Failed
-Changed assigned MAC address of gateway by running "su" then "arp -s XXX.XXX.XXX.1 XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:FA" in Terminal
-Verified new MAC address assignment by running "arp -a" in Terminal
-Pinged google - Successful
-Changed the MAC back and pinged google again - Failed
Conclusion:
For some reason the device is getting assigned the correct gateway IP but the wrong gateway MAC. This is allowing the device to connect to the network but not communicate with the router. Since it can't communicate with the router any "Internet" requests time out because the packets have to go through the router to make it to the "Internet". Since it is not blocked from the network it can still connect and communicate with other clients on the "Intranet" but not the router.
Our IT guy thinks there is a client somewhere on the network in the same subnet that is configured in this matter and it just so happens that for some reason my device is picking that up when it connects. He is going to look into it more when time permits but since we are very busy and we have already spent way too much time on this, and I now know at least what the issue is, he is going to move on for now.
Why would my device be picking up the WAN MAC address of the router?
What would be responsible for assigning a WAN or LAN MAC address?
How can I prevent this?
Has anyone ever experienced anything like this?
Temporary Solution (must be rooted):
Open your favorite terminal app on your device.
-Enter "su" (without quotes)
-Enter "arp -s [Your gateway IP here] [Your gateway's LAN MAC address here]
Browse away!!!!!
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i would like to add if u have seen the
cmd-ncpa.cpl-ipv4-propreties- in this section u see its Dhcp so all fields are inactive
but u can see gateway ip which is inactive such as in my case 192.168.1.1
u cannot remove that.
any body saw the reply....
thanks regards
bmx0964 said:
Temporary Solution (must be rooted):
Open your favorite terminal app on your device.
-Enter "su" (without quotes)
-Enter "arp -s [Your gateway IP here] [Your gateway's LAN MAC address here]
Browse away!!!!!
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Click to collapse
Thanks, This Solution Saved me Today
From my desktop i am using BeeVPN and would love to have my phone connection using the VPN protocol protecting my traffic on my phone as well.
So now i am hoping someone here are using either beevpn or a similar service and have setup a secure vpn on their note and would share their experience in doing so?
I've setup a VPN to my home using Windows 7's built in VPN server. I used Dyndns to sort out the physical IP address to my home (since I don't have a static IP) and then set up the port forwarding on my router to forward VPN connections to the PC I have running the VPN service.
Works like a charm (PPTP protocol being used.)
I have openvpn on my XP home machine and also on my (rooted) note. It is a bit fiddly to get the note's internet traffic routing via the home XP box - that does not happen by default on an openvpn connection, you have to set it up in the openvpn server config file. Should then be OK but unfortunately, pushing the default gateway doesn't seem to work on Android in practice. The openvpn client on the note has a workaround for this - a menu option to "fix DNS problems" which does the job after the VPN is established.
I use this method for any stuff I do on public wifi other than basic web surfing where I have no security concerns. So, banking, utilities etc. all goes over VPN. I also use it when I need to present my home IP address rather than thet of the connection I'm currently on: eg. for watching UK TV streams whilst outwith UK, and for remote access to 3rd party systems that sit behind firewalls which allow my static home IP through but nothing else).
Connecting to the VPN from public wifi/3G is very easy (once I've woken the XP box with Wake on LAN). The only real downside is that your download speed over the VPN in this configuration is limited to the UPLOAD speed of your home broadband. I get 800Kbps which is sufficient for decent video streaming (skygo/TVcatchup).
The other major benefit of VPN is that you can remotely access your home PC's and services on them via internal ip addreses without having to open up ports on your router on the WAN interface.
I've had a Vpn set up on my note for about 4 months now with no problems.
I use vpnaccounts.com as the server very easy and simple to setup.
I just wish the Vpn would work using my data connection and not just Wifi but we can't have everything!
georgios73 said:
I've had a Vpn set up on my note for about 4 months now with no problems.
I use vpnaccounts.com as the server very easy and simple to setup.
I just wish the Vpn would work using my data connection and not just Wifi but we can't have everything!
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I'm located in Brazil and also use vpnaccounts.com on my laptop, pc, Galaxy Note and Nexus S. The server I connect to is in Dallas Tx.
I also use the 1 VPN app which gives you 1 click logon.
Everything works great!
Yes but don't you have to enter your VPN password every time you want to turn on the VPN?
I can't find a way to keep the password remembered by the device.
I have a simple home net using mostly windows vista and 7 computers, some printers, external hd servers for backup storage and cameras in a workgroup static ip setup behind an off the shelf router. i set one of the computers as the vpn server since i dont want to buy a dedicated hardware vpn in a vista ultimate machine thats on 24/7 anyway with an incomming server... with the correct ports forwarded from the router to the vpn host.
my remote vpn laptop connects to the vpn fine and can see the network resources, however, has no internet connection once the vpn is connected. do i have to set the host vpn computer to do some sort of its own dns assignments to the incomming connection? its set for dhcp so i dont know why it would assign a valid IP to an incomming but not any other info.
in other words, on my remote laptop, i can connect to a random wireless internet hotspot and have full internet access. I can then enable vpn and log in to my home network and see all the network resources, however if i try to use an internet browser, there appears to be no internet. if i disconnect the vpn, the internet resumes to work fine and obviously the vpn resources are no longer accessable.
what am i missing? under incomming connection properties general tab, "allow others to make private..." is checked, under users the correct user is selected along with "require all users to secure...", and under networking ipv4 "allow callers to access..." is checked, and assign ip auto using dhcp is checked so I would think it should be working fine at this point, however it doesn list anywhere a gateway or dns to assine to incomming connections, only ip's.
host vpn computer is vista ultimate with static ip behind a retail router also assigned a static ip via my home isp.
the remote laptop is running ubuntu 12. just for kicks and to rule out ubuntu causing some problem, i set my android phone up for vpn use via 4g network, and the same thing happens. connects vpn fine, has local resources, but loses internet.
i also was curious as to having a vpn log in for the existing user account on the vpn host machine... in other words, should i just add the username on the host computer as a vpn client, and log in vpn using those credentials? and will that even work if that account is logged in, or will i have to remember to log out when im on the road to use the vpn connection.
thanks all!