can I use my home WiFi as "VPN" remotely with Phone Hotspot/PC?

[Big Chudungus]

4Chan IP blocks my Mint Mobile phone but home PCs are A-OK for 4Chan, and I've got unlimited data and 12 hours a day free at work to post from remote location but my only WWW is through Mint Mobile.

So how can I use a laptop with MM Hotspot USB/Bluetooth to connect to my desktop so to 4Chan it looks like I'm connecting from my home ISP?

Something about finding out my home ISP number and some number of my home PC and "calling" them, then how to make them call WWW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8llWpN4800

Yeah, but will it then be bouncing back stuff from WWW so my remote laptop is basically talking through my home PC, so to rest of WWW it looks like I'm posting from my home address?

[ldsnet]

No your wifi router can't act as a VPN server for your phones. Android can be configured and locked by providers... could be forcing to use their routing and dns tables even though connected to your home wifi.
Run a VPN on your phone and that should bypass Mint routing tables.
I have the same issue but backwards; my att phones go anywhere, spectrum cable blocks all kinds of stuff. Now i run VPN Everywhere, all the time.

[Big Chudungus]

No your wifi router can't act as a VPN server for your phones. Android can be configured and locked by providers... could be forcing to use their routing and dns tables even though connected to your home wifi.
Run a VPN on your phone and that should bypass Mint routing tables.
I have the same issue but backwards; my att phones go anywhere, spectrum cable blocks all kinds of stuff. Now i run VPN Everywhere, all the time.

I don't get it but understand I kinda want the opposite of a VPN.

I'm guessing for their own reasons 4Chan has blocked ALL Mint Mobile users, and would 4Chan even know WHICH Mint phone was connecting or does that pretty much look like a diff user each connection???, but not my very specific home Comcast only from my home WiFi.

Can I "take full control" of my home PC using a mobile hotspot phone and as far as anyone knows its me at home on my home WiFi?

[Robotron2k84]

No your wifi router can't act as a VPN server for your phones. Android can be configured and locked by providers... could be forcing to use their routing and dns tables even though connected to your home wifi.
Run a VPN on your phone and that should bypass Mint routing tables.
I have the same issue but backwards; my att phones go anywhere, spectrum cable blocks all kinds of stuff. Now i run VPN Everywhere, all the time.

That’s exactly how I have my routers and iPhone set up. OpenVPN on the router and client on the phone.

The real question is what OP does for work that they have 12-hours each workday to fart around posting on the chans.

4Chan IP blocks my Mint Mobile phone but home PCs are A-OK for 4Chan, and I've got unlimited data and 12 hours a day free at work to post from remote location but my only WWW is through Mint Mobile.

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[Big Chudungus]

That’s exactly how I have my routers and iPhone set up. OpenVPN on the router and client on the phone.

The real question is what OP does for work that they have 12-hours each workday to fart around posting on the chans.

*3;

[Ivan275]

What router do you have at home? As Robotron2k84 stated you can install a "program" on your router that will be your VPN server. On your phone you set up a VPN client, it connects to the VPN server at home and all your traffic looks like its coming from your house. I run https://dd-wrt.com/ on the router and https://openvpn.net/ on the phone.

Alternatively you can use a service from this list https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/the-b...s-for-android/ I personaly used TunnelBear and signed up a 2nd fake user to get more free data a month when I traveled out of country and wanted a local faster server.

    ExpressVPN — Lightning-fast speeds, secure server connections, and no data caps. You can try it risk-free with its 30-day money-back guarantee.
    CyberGhost: No data limit and you get 3 days to use the full service for free.
    Hotspot Shield: 500MB of free data per day. Reliable, high-speed connections and premium security features.
    Windscribe: 10GB of free data per month. User-friendly Android apps with a built-in ad and malware blocker.
    hide.me: 2GB of free data per month. High-speed connections and military-grade security.
    PrivateVPN: Dependable, secure, and able to bypass geoblocks. You can use free with a 7-day trial.
    TunnelBear: 500MB of free data per month. Its GhostBear mode bypasses geo-restrictions, VPN blocks, and censorship.
    ProtonVPN: Unlimited data, speed, and bandwidth. Easy-to-use, lightweight Android app.
    OperaVPN: Secure Opera browser plugin with unlimited data. You don’t even need to create an account.
    Speedify: 5GB of free data per month and unique channel bonding feature to maximize your connection speed.
    Betternet: Intuitive Android app with 500 MB of free data per day. Supports P2P connections.

[Big Chudungus]

What router do you have at home? As Robotron2k84 stated you can install a "program" on your router that will be your VPN server. On your phone you set up a VPN client, it connects to the VPN server at home and all your traffic looks like its coming from your house. I run https://dd-wrt.com/ on the router and https://openvpn.net/ on the phone.

Alternatively you can use a service from this list https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/the-b...s-for-android/ I personaly used TunnelBear and signed up a 2nd fake user to get more free data a month when I traveled out of country and wanted a local faster server.

    ExpressVPN — Lightning-fast speeds, secure server connections, and no data caps. You can try it risk-free with its 30-day money-back guarantee.
    CyberGhost: No data limit and you get 3 days to use the full service for free.
    Hotspot Shield: 500MB of free data per day. Reliable, high-speed connections and premium security features.
    Windscribe: 10GB of free data per month. User-friendly Android apps with a built-in ad and malware blocker.
    hide.me: 2GB of free data per month. High-speed connections and military-grade security.
    PrivateVPN: Dependable, secure, and able to bypass geoblocks. You can use free with a 7-day trial.
    TunnelBear: 500MB of free data per month. Its GhostBear mode bypasses geo-restrictions, VPN blocks, and censorship.
    ProtonVPN: Unlimited data, speed, and bandwidth. Easy-to-use, lightweight Android app.
    OperaVPN: Secure Opera browser plugin with unlimited data. You don’t even need to create an account.
    Speedify: 5GB of free data per month and unique channel bonding feature to maximize your connection speed.
    Betternet: Intuitive Android app with 500 MB of free data per day. Supports P2P connections.

forget I every said "VPN".

I just want to use my mobile phone's WWW data plan to connect to my non-VPN regular home ISP so when I'm using my phone to connect to home PC it looks like I'm just my home PC's ISP.

Imagine I'm WFH but I want my boss to think I'm in my Home Office he set me up with bouncing him that ISP address but I'm actually in some dive bar with laptop tethered to phone.

[WoodTurner]

It would still be a VPN connection. You just aren't paying for a VPN service. As mentioned above, OpenVPN is the ideal way to do this.

[Robotron2k84]

If you’re going to tether, the VPN client needs to be on the tethered device. No phone will VPN-Proxy for hotspot clients without rooting the device and installing a proxy or socks server in addition to the VPN client.

You can run the VPN on the phone, concurrently, for its own connections but the internet sharing only NATs in one direction, so will always use the phone’s public IP for clients behind the hotspot.

[Big Chudungus]

forget I said VPN. IIRC 4Chan blocks all VPN's as it discovers they are VPNs.

I just want to make my laptop use my 4Chan blocked Mint data plan to connect to my home PC, then make my home PC connect to 4Chan via my non-blocked home ISP.

[Fizz]

OP - there are different kinds of VPNs. The kinda of VPNs you see advertised online are generally best considered proxies with encryption. These are the types of VPNS that some websites block.

Other types of VPNs allow you to join devices to remote networks like they're plugged in with an Ethernet cables across the internet, join two physically separate networks into a single broadcast domain, etc. It is almost impossible for websites to detect that these kinds of VPNs are in use!


Easy:

- Install Splashtop, LogMeIn, TeamViewer, etc. on your home PC. Use their respective mobile apps to remote in to your home PC. All of your browsing activity will appear to be from your home PC. You can also install the software on your laptop and use tethering on your mobile, or other wifi, etc. to get access to the home PC. *This is the easiest method and among the most secure since it won't involve punching holes in your firewall*

Just be sure to set your home PC to not go to sleep automatically.

Medium:

- You can setup your home router, or a server behind your home router, as a VPN endpoint. You can have your mobile device connect to this endpoint if it's configured to 'route all' all traffic will be relayed by your home internet connection. This will allow either your mobile device, or your laptop connected to their endpoint (regardless of if it's your mint mobile or coffee shop wifi) to fake as if your mobile/laptop are on your home network.

Advanced:

- You could setup a virtual machine in AWS (EC2), Google Cloud, Azure, etc. and access the internet from there. This access will use the respective cloud providers IP space. Doing this securely will involve either proper Firewall rules, VPNs to the cloud service provider, and/or remote access software.

- You can also setup a VPN endpoint in the cloud. However, because you're not using a network known to belong specifically to a VPN provider - MOST services will not detect these networks as VPN traffic. This also provides an option where if you get banned or otherwise lose access to a resource, you can hot swap your public IP for another from the pool very quickly.

[Robotron2k84]