First off, thanks for the valuable information. I currently have unlimited phone data and a 10g hotspot add on I pay extra for. I want to use this to so I can connect my PC to my phone for faster and unlimited data to play games online. I have installed it to my PC and phone and made the connection. The problem is that it will only make the connection when my ethernet cord is connected, which make my PC use the ethernet and not the mobile connection. I am confused by something and have watched the video many times. Do I need to turn on my mobile hotspot on my phone, Bluetooth, tether my phone to my PC with a cord or connect my phone to the PC with the WIFI connection on my phone? I was thinking that the WIFI was the way to go but when I did it there was no speed. I was thinking about turning on the hotspot, but thought that would still use my 10G data. Please help simplify it to a simple person. Thanks in advance for all of your assistance.

@@googie4854 you won't need to pay for the add on anymore after this. You need to turn on the wifi hotspot on your phone then connect your pc to that hotspot, and make sure you can get internet. Once connected to the hotspot, open pairvpn on the pc an on the phone, then connect them together like in the video, when pairvpn shows connected, you are good to go, no need to pay for an add on, you can use your hotspot without paying for additional data

@@HicSvntDracones Thank you for the quick response. I will give it a try later today.

Hey, i just started my Workin another City and had to move. at my Home, they provide Wlan-6 Wifi but it will simply not Connect to my PC. My Iphone and my Laptop are connected but even with Ethernet my Pc will not conecct to the wifi. Any help will be much appreciated

​@@Badguldan3013 I wonder if you might have a prior IP address set. Do this, plug in the Ethernet and connect the wifi, then open file explorer, on the left side, go down to "network", right-click on it and chose "properties" and on the left side select "change adapter settings". You will see a list of connections, what do the Ethernet connections and the Wifi connections say? So one might say Ethernet, then under it, it might say connected, not connected, or say unknown network. Also do any have a red X? As far as WiFi, does that icon show any bars, and what does it say right under wifi? Does it list the wifi network or unknown network? While there, you should see an ethernet that doesn't have a red X, sine the cable should be plugged in, right click and chose "diagnose" do the same for the wi-fi connection, and let me know what the responses are after following the troubleshooter.

Glad to hear! 😃

Awesome! Quick question, is Verizon '5G Home Internet' available in your area? www.verizon.com/home/ It is incredibly fast and rapidly expanding, causing a lot of companies to not even bother trying to continue with DSL services anymore. You can also get a month for free www.verizon.com/about/news/verizon-free-trial-5G-unlimited Next would be to see if Tmobile has services, they also have 5G home internet, but ONLY 5G, where Verizon has LTE, 5G, Ultra Wideband, and they offer a 3 month free trial www.t-mobile.com/offers/free-trial

@@HicSvntDracones i don’t have any 5G from any carrier where I live. Verizon HI says it isn’t available here. Neither does Straight Talk, but I was finally able to trick it with a fake address. I don’t know if Verizon would work in that way also, but I’d be tempted to try ST to at least have something consistent

@@Mango.Bandicoot You can try Visible for $30 a month, they have good data speeds.

It's a 3400% speed increase for me using USB tethering and PairVPN. 7mbps to 240! Crazy it's a whole new woooorld

Awesome!

​@@HicSvntDraconescan i do it on phone

Yeah, Pair-VPN still lets the provider see what type of data is going over your connection, just not where it is coming from, letting the provider throttle video. A lot of providers are starting to stop throttling, or offer non-throttling plans, such as Verizon, can always try moving providers also.

Awesome! If you need help with anything else, just ask.

Have your carrier Detected it? Are your still good

yes im fine@@ihackapple2525

The only possible way I can think of, is if you use another phone or tablet, the 2nd one with only wifi on, so connect the two together via pairvpn, a cheap android should be able to do it, then turn on the hotspot on the 2nd phone and connect your pS5 to that phone, you should in theory be sharing the pairvpn connection on the 2nd phone. I've never tried it though.

I ran into that problem also, and it would correct itself every so often. Try reinstalling the app maybe, but I never found a solution, just had to deal with it. I had reached out to PairVPN, but never got anything back

Awesome!

You should be able to use another VPN while using Pair-VPN... However, You don't have to use a VPN to torrent. It all depends on if your ISP is one to take action, most don't. It also depends on how active you are, if you are constantly seeding or even uploading torrents, then you face issues, if you just occasionally download, then you really don't have to worry.

If I have the PairVPN client turned on my mobile device, I cannot use another VPN. How were u able to get it to work?

It has been a few months, but I had used a VPB built into my torrent client. The issue is going to be in the VPN software you use, some will work, some may not. I'll look up which ones work and get back to you in a few hours.

I ran into the same problem on occasion, but I was also running the beta of Android 14, I think it is an incompatibility with some phones. Maybe try putting the pc software into server mode and have the phone be guest, that might do it. You might also have to wipe the cache, and reinstall.

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Technically you don't need any hotspot data, but it is good for when you forget to turn pairvpn on. Basically, while connected, your provider wont know your using the hotspot and you wont use up any hotspot data, it'll be just like you are doing everything from your phone. You've got the concept. :)

​​@@HicSvntDraconesBut my hotspot data is still being used though. What can I do to fix that?

@@YungGun Your hotspot data shouldn't be used, your mobile data will be used. Make sure you are seeing the right data.I have a feeling that maybe it isn;t properly connected. Make sure you definitely have the PairVPN app connected on both ends, and that the on toggle switch is definitely on . (You need it installed, and turned on/connected on both devices each time you connect to the hotpsot. I have ran into some people that think just installing it and connecting it once is good enough, it isn't) If for some reason, you are sure it is connected and the hotspot data is still being counted, then maybe your phone is using a custom hotspot app that charges you while it is on, or the app itself is counting data, this is jsut a guess and I have never heard of this, but it is possible in "theory". Go ahead and try a different hotspot App, such as PDANET+ or FoxFI, then connect PairVpn and stay away from the builtin hotspt.

You're welcome!

As long as you can use data on your phone, then it should work. It might be possible, though unlikely, that if you are using a proprietary hotspot server included by some providers, and have used up your hotpsot access for the month, the provider is blocking all hotspot connections through that app. Make sure you are using the app built into Android or iPhone. Try using a different hotspot app, such as pdanet+ and see if that works. ALso try to simplify things, start with just your phone turn on hotpsot and then turn on the pairvpn server, and be sure it says it is waiting for connections, and doesn't give an error such as "no internet" or something, then connect your device to the hotspot wifi, and see if you get any data, then turn on pairvpn and see if that makes a difference.

wireless range of your phone. it will work while you are on the road, as long as your phone is nearby and able to connect to your pc

Same now it's useless😢

From your computer, or do you mean to a game system? If you are referring to a console, give me a few days, it is actually something I get requested a lot, but I game on PC and don't have a console to use in a video, however I think I can put something together. Wifi is also going to be the harder method, just a FYI, on the PC, you would be using one wifi card to receive and then reshare a connection (unless you have 2 wifi cars or dongles). Going USB from the phone to the PC first is the best way to do it.

@@HicSvntDraconesim trying it from my computer. Can you do a demonstration of USB from phone to PC please?

Yeah no prob. I'll upload something later today

@@Charlie-yw5lk kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ia92f9KktZalnIE.html

How did you get it to work I have a PS4 and I'm struggling I don't have Ethernet either

Not sure about PairVPN specifically, but the error code 10013 is generally due to a firewall or antivirus blocking needed socket connections. Check to see if you have any 3rd party antivirus, firewall, or security software installed. Also be sure your PC is connected to your phone over hotspot first, before connecting PairVPN.

Yeah, as long as you can get PairVPN to run properly. Let me know how it goes!

Did you get it fixed?

@@HicSvntDraconesCan the provider detect it?

@@ihackapple2525 Not ass long as the PairVPN app is open and connected, as far as the provider is concerned, you are merely using mobile data from your phone only, they can't detect any of the hotspot use

Either,. Though you are limited to your wireless connection speed, and in an area with a lot of interference, that could be a lot of speed loss along with possibly causing a lot of lag. Just all depends on your hardware.. Then, if trying to share to a gaming system, just less hassle if you try to use the windows hotspot to share to a game system while being connected over wireless. Some wireless adapters won't let you do it, but most will, however, a lot of the wireless cards will only let you get half the normal transfer speed if you are trying to use them to connect to a mobile hotspot while also sharing your own mobile hotspot, basically it is 2 connections using the same card. I forget the actual mechanism that allows it to work, but I know it at least used to have quite a few downsides. Now, if you have 2 wireless adapters, then no issue. The same goes for sharing your connection to the gaming system via ethernet.

Yeah, you can run PairVPN on the laptop and on another device, like another computer or android device to make the tunnel. You just can't run it right on the laptop only, you HAVE to create a vpn tunnel. between 2 devices, I mean, you could potentially do it on a laptop using VMs

You need it connected to your pc, then you need to share your PC internet connection (the pair PC connection) to the PS5 using internet connection sharing. Try this connectify.me/ app and read this www.reddit.com/r/Rural_Internet/comments/114yok4/share_pairvpn_connection/

You should be able to, it is an android App and Firestik is Android. You need to download it straight from the website then sideload it though, so you will have to google how to sideload, it is fairly easy, they even have an android app that can do it automatically, but too much to explain here. I see no reason that it shouldn't work.

Make sure you are sharing the right connection from the PC into the router instead of sharing wifi, I think you need to be sharing the vpn connection

@@HicSvntDracones Just double checked, and it says that I was sharing my connection from PairVPN

Nope, this won't decrease ping times at all, and mobile data, even 5G fixed wireless is not the way you want to go for low-latency play, you need to look for FIber optic service, most commonly sold as FFTN (Fiber to the node) which is fiber to the Central Office, then DSL to your building, or FTTH (Fiber to the home) which is direct fiber home. A cable modem, and then standard DSL would be the next fastest latency. Ping times are all about how long the signal physically takes to get from point A to point B, and wireless is some of the slowest, which is why you want to avoid using Wifi for gaming, and instead, use Ethernet, and use USB Mouse/Keyboard instead of Bluetooth/2.4 Ghz wireless. All this will do is give you full speed, which is generally going to be about 75% of your actual speed you see on your phone, which can be anywhere from 20 mb/s to 140 mb/s depending on service, signal strength and etc. The reason to use the app, is because if you aren't paying for hotspot data, then you get limited to about 5 mb/s, which is DSL speeds. This lets you bypass those speeds without paying a crazy amount to the provider for data you already paid for....

PairVPN bypasses the actual throttling imposed by a data provider, pdanet is simply a 3rd party hotspot app, and lets you use hotspot when the provider has the built-in app locked, and isn't really relevant anymore. Even using PDAnet, most connections are still throttled to 5 mbs by the provider, pairVPN bypasses this

You are making a connection from the PC to the PS5, and if you have internet on the PC, then you have a connection from the phone to the PC. So you need to focus on the part in between the 2, usually it is due to sharing the wrong connection, make sure you are sharing the right connection. You might have to experiment with the connection you are sharing. You want to share the PairVPN connection, not the hotspot connection wifi, but different software can have it laid out that looks different. Also, try connecting PairVPN and the PC using USB rather than Wifi, or go Ethernet from PC to PS5, you can run into issues by doing too many connections over one wifi adapter, such as PC to phone, PC to PS5.Try these threads, and try asking on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Rural_Internet/comments/114yok4/share_pairvpn_connection/

Not all phones have access to all files on Play Store, if the phone doesn't match the processor/OS requirements, then you won't get access via the Play Store. That is why you can download the APK direct from PairVPN, so that you can manually install it. (you can google how to install an apk on Android) You can download the APK at pairvpn.com/bin/

Does it do this when doing a speed test, and what speed test are you using? Try this: speed.cloudflare.com/ or try an actual download through a browser. Some speedtests don't work well with high-speed conenctions

@@HicSvntDracones I'm going off of steam's download speed as well as the MS Store downloads. I'll check with cloudfare when I get home in about 30 min

It will work without more vpn codes. You just have to be sure you share the VPN connection via the Ethernet in Windows Internet Connection Sharing, then you should be sharing the full vpn tunnel, in theory at least, sometimes it can get a bit complicated depending on your current setup, but as long as you get Internet sharing setup properly to use the VPN connection, it does work.

@@HicSvntDracones awesome imma try it soon when i get time thanks for the info im a new sub to your channel great video keep up the good work 1 other question i have a galaxy s21 i dont have to root it do i ill figure out the computer part as in sharing and all that no problem just not really android savy imma windows guy lol if i gotta root phone ill figure it out with research but just wondered

To bypass the speed cap on a mobile hotspot, when sharing internet over wifi from a mobile phone, which is usually capped at 5 mb/s

Hotspots are usually limited for network performance, mobile networks were built for low data use,such as what mobile devices generally use, and people using them for streaming 4k videos, or other bandwidth-intensive apps can cause the whole system to slow down. Newer systems don't have that issue, so I figure hotspot limits will go away eventually as many are being geared towards fixed wireless service also. If your console cant run pairvpn, then you need something that can. One option is to get a 30-day free tmobile hotspot test drive, that gets you a month of decent service, and includes a free hotspot router, which MIGHT work, you can put your sim card into it for data use, and sometimes those dont get hotspot limited, sometimes they do. www.t-mobile.com/support/coverage/test-drive-hotspot Perhaps look into getting Verizon 5g Home internet. It is $60, or $35 if you get a verizon voice line. Also, if you are low income at all, such as receiving EBT or medicaid, then you can get it for free www.verizon.com/home/acp/free-internet/ the federal ACP program works for any provider also, so might be helpful for other services also, IF you are in the US.

I used visible for long time without issues and I don;t think they really can't patch it, no way for them to tell, and when they do sense something, they send a nasty email warning you: Are you SURE PairVPN is connected? like the connect switch is flipped and staying on? When it is connected, what speed is your phone getting? I wonder if you are getting a lower LTE signal where it is at and your phone is getting a slow speed. Are you using a speed tester to check the speed, or are you looking at file download speed? File download speeds over Visible do show about 5 megaybtes/sec, which is about 40 megabits/sec , max that most servers and torrents top out at, to prevent someone from sucking up all the bandwidth. Files are in megabytes, but download speed is in megabits, just an FYI. Try rebooting the PC and phone also. Oh, you don't have any other VPNs do you? No Nord vpn or anything? that could cause issues also

​@@HicSvntDracones I found the issue. Thanks for writing! I run on the hotspotted PC so much that I get "used" to 5Mb/sec. Last time I looked at techniques nothing worked to cloak. Every so often Visible craps and leaves me throttled due to congestion. I've had PairVPN running for an hour and none the wiser because the stick was at 5Mb/sec. I use Ookla Speedtest. Visible sells Verizon's excess bandwidth. It can go quite low ( .5Mb/sec) but the slowdown is usually transient. When it gets stuck, it can often be cleared by rebooting the phone. FWIW: I have a directional antenna that gives me a minimum signal strength of -80, on good days (right now) I'm at -63. (Yes, it's an inverse dB scale.) Don't get me started on Visible. They are rolling out 5G in the next couple of months. They are dropping half of their freqs on their 4G LTE network, leaving me in the lurch on all my phones. After conflicting public announcements, I've verified via their support staff that it means that either I switch (Verizon, the antenna may as well be proprietary) or buying another phone. Should be interesting to see how long it takes for the carriers to deal with VPNs. This version already checks for licensing permissions on hotspotting. Oddly, this phone lets me connect multiple clients. My other Motos leave it at one.

You have to be connected to the hotspot first. PairVPN makes a vpn tunnel to the phone, which requires a connection to the phone. If you aren't using USB tethering, then you need the Hotspot on the phone turned on and the PC connected to it.

@@HicSvntDracones thank you I thought that’s what I had to do

@@NightHawk4321 Glad to hear!

@@HicSvntDracones I'm tethered via usbc and it still says internet connection failed 12007. if i have my isp service plugged in via ethernet it seems to work. as soon as i unplug my isp ethernet cable and just have the phone tethered to the pc via usb c, it says internet connection failed 12007. im using google pixel 7 with walmart family mobile throught verizon. pleas help. my isp is trash.

Not that I can find, but you might be able to find some code for something like Openwrt if you really search, but it will require a lot of work

Yeah, it uses your data that's for your phone instead of thinking it's a hotspot, so my plan is unlimited with 50 gbs of high speed and 15gbs of hotspot. When I use this it thinks I'm using the 50 high-speed and then it'll stay on that instead of hotspot

as long as it is connected by PairVPN, it will appear to be only phone data.

Smart TV's are sort of dumb, as you can't really upgrade them, though you really cant get dumb TVs anymore, but just get a cheap one, then get an actual FireStick or use a PC for content, that way you always have the latest hardware and software. Anyways, you should be able to use this with a Smart TV as long as it has an Android based OS, like the FIreTV. However, 5MB/s should be enough for streaming

That is an issue with your windows system not getting an automatically assigned IP address

or is that on the PS5?

@@HicSvntDracones It's on my PC. Do you know how I'd go about setting up my PC to get an automatically assigned IP address?

@@shielfoxftw8279 make sure you can get on the internet when connected to your phones hotspot without pairvpn running, and make sure dhcp is enabled on your pc kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sJd1aNl20ajVknk.html also reboot both

Get a better internet connection. Ping times are how long it takes a packet to reach the server. Different things affect it, the distance, the type of connection, and the amount of hops, or equipment (Routers, switches, firewalls, etc) on the way. You can't do much about Ping times, beyond tweaking your internal network. Don't use wifi, and run your PC or game system directly into the modem/router, but once it hits the modem, you can't control it. Do a traceroute to see what the ping for each hop is, then you can determine where the issues are at, and if your router is somehow adding to it. You should run it from your PC. On windows, open command prompt and type "tracert webaddress or ipaddress" an Example is: tracert youtube.com which returns something like 1 1 ms 2 ms 4 ms 192.168.0.1 2 32 ms 32 ms 29 ms 68.sub-66-174-30.myvzw.com [66.174.30.68] 3 49 ms 35 ms 39 ms 56.sub-69-83-165.myvzw.com [69.83.165.56] 4 * * * Request timed out. 5 62 ms 39 ms 38 ms 147.sub-69-83-165.myvzw.com [69.83.165.147] 6 * * * Request timed out. 7 47 ms 34 ms 41 ms 168.sub-69-83-161.myvzw.com [69.83.161.168] 8 54 ms 24 ms 30 ms 176.sub-69-83-161.myvzw.com [69.83.161.176] 9 53 ms 40 ms 37 ms 183.sub-69-83-160.myvzw.com [69.83.160.183] 10 * * * Request timed out. 11 47 ms 34 ms 38 ms 204.148.55.170 12 58 ms 38 ms 39 ms 142.251.69.89 13 36 ms 36 ms 37 ms 142.251.66.109 14 40 ms 35 ms 39 ms sfo03s24-in-f14.1e100.net [142.250.189.174] Trace complete. You can see that 192.168.0.1 is my router, and has a max ping time of 4ms. All the slow hops are out of my control.

Visible is really locking down the network quite a lot, as many people are using it for data, but other options, like "Total by Verizon" are available at the same price range and are a bit more flexible on limits. PDANet+ should work for that, and it is made by the same people that make PairVPN. You can also try other HotSpot apps also, as the limit is within the app itself. Another option is to connect the phone to a PC via USB Tether, then share that connection via WiFI like I showed in the video, but only do that if you have issues with pdanet or other apps for whatever reason. Finally, if you are in the US, 5G Fixed wireless internet is becoming widely available from Verizon and Tmobile, with speeds up to about 2Gb/s, and pricing is dropping a lot, and if you are in a lower income bracket or on any income support, such as EBT or Medicaid, you can get Verizon 5G internet for free. I have a video that goes over some of the options for free services. www.verizon.com/home/acp/free-internet/ Total by Verizon: www.totalbyverizon.com/ Circle Wireless: circledin.com/ Mint Mobile $30 unlimited Data www.mintmobile.com/ Tmobile 90 day FREE data: www.t-mobile.com/offers/free-trial

Buy a travel router, you can tether your phone to it then you can connect multiple devices

DHCP is an auto assigned IP address, netmask, and DNS. Does it say that on the phone or your computer? SO, when you connect to a network, you need an IP address. Instead of manually entering it, a DHCP server usually provides an address, along with netmask, and sometimes DNS, with one not in use. We can set it manually if we need the IP to stay the same, such as for a server. Most likely, either something is wrong with the network on windows, and it isn;t picking up the address, or the option got changed. First, connect to the hotspot, but don't turn on pairvpn, and see if everything works, make sure the wifi doesn't have a a x or anything over it. If you can get to the internet, then all should wotk, maybe reinstall pairvpn. If it doesn't work before pairvpn, My bet is on just an error, and a reboot should fix it hopefully. Reboot the PC and you can try the network troubleshooter. If that doesn;t work, be sure the network is set to automatically obtain an address. This site shows how to set a manual address,. just do the opposite and make sure it is set to 'automatically obtain' rather than set to manual. www.howtogeek.com/19249/how-to-assign-a-static-ip-address-in-windows/ I would reboot the phone and pc first, especially if this jsut started happening, as sometimes errors can happen and the network stops working right, so a reboot is your first option. The network troubleshooter in windows is also pretty good at doing this. Read this also: geekchamp.com/how-to-fix-dhcp-not-working-in-windows-11/

@@HicSvntDracones Holy Moly dude, even if this don't go through you've most definitely earned a like and sub. Why? I learned something today. Thank you bud.

@@HicSvntDracones Managed to get it all working.....sort of. The internet is slow unlike my actual phone data. One step at a time 😂

Yes & No, I covered this in the video, but any VPN service will bypass speed limits,. but when I tried them, I instantly got a notice on my phone that I was violating terms of service and could have my service terminated. The reason is because the tunnel goes across the internet, so they can tell a tunnel is in use, and more data than a normal phone uses th is flowing, and they can also see the TTL of the tunnel doesn't match the phone, which screams, using a vpn to bypass limits. PairVPN stops the tunnel at the phone, so the provider is none teh wiser.

You would have to connect pairvpn to a pc, then enable network sharing on the PC's ethernet port and plug that ethernet into the routers WAN port. Should work, though a pain. Might want to look into just Verizon 5G home internet for multiple devices, if your on a low income, you can get it for $10/month, else its under $80 for up to a gb/s if abailable.

I explained it in the video, but some providers are ending it. I have Verizon 5G unlimited home internet which is fully unlimited.

Make sure the Server and client is connected. Test the speed before using Pair VPN then after, you should be limited to 5 mb/s then get over 5 mb/s after running it, though it all depends on the signal and speed your phone is getting

@@HicSvntDraconesI've been using paired vpn for months to my pc, using a iphone11. Then today no matter what I do the speed is still throttled for some reason. Under 1mbps

@@Gunk715 have you tested the speed on your phone to be sure it isn't just a data issue from the provider?

I've got 25 years of experience in Internet/Network engineering, and I don't see any feasible or cost-effective way this could be stopped. Can't see into a VPN, and can't even detect a VPN that stays fully on the private side of the network. It should work for a long time, at least until they stop dictating what you can do with your data, which is getting closer as 5G roll out more :)

Where do you see the error? In the PairVPN app? You have to be connected to the wifi hotspot on your phone first, once you have internet access on your PC, turn on PairVPN on the phone, and then on the PC and connect, then you get the bypass speeds.

usually a connect error 110 means that the server timed out, if that helps. First, make sure your apps are updated, disable and turn back on your hotspot, uninstall + reinstall, stuff like that. If its not fixed, then I would try emailing the devs!!! www.reddit.com/r/PairVPN/comments/15g3os7/ask_anything_thread/

@@HicSvntDraconesI figured it out

It was because I was using the PairVPN client on my phone and the server on my pc

Btw, I can’t believe this worked, I thought for sure it wasn’t going to work, but I tried it and it does indeed work. Thx for the help. Now I can play Minecraft online without lag!! 😊.

Yes, but not natively, and you need a PC or a second phone or tablet. As described in the video, you need to connect pairVPN to your PC, then turn on internet connection sharing (hotspot if using a second phone) and share the PairVPN connection, which you then connect to your PS5. A few people have gotten it to work. I game on PC and don't have a console, so can't demonstrate it any better, but quite a few channels show how to share your internet connection from a PC to a PS5, it is basically the same thing

@@HicSvntDracones thanks appreciate it

So I have unlimited data on my phone but I have a limit on my mobile hotspot data. How would I get this to work ?

@@james8599 Just run PairVPN like the video shows, it is very simple, and it does exactly what you are looking for, you get unlimited data on your hotspot

I am on a Pixel 6 running UpsideDownCake Beta and have no probs with it a all

You can get another phone, and connect it to the first in place of a PC, then turn on hotspot sharing. That should work.

​@@HicSvntDracones can you elaborate on how to do this a little more? I have a couple phones and visible and wanted to play on Xbox. I have no pc

@@stevez2323 On the phone with visible, turn on the hotspot. Connect to the SSID of the visible phones hotspot with a non-visible phone, verify you have internet. Now, install Pair VPN on both phones if you haven't and open PairVPN on the Visible phone and set it up as server. On the other phone, open Pair VPN and pair to the Pair VPN server on the Visible phone. On important thing, if the other phone (non-visible) has data services from another service, turn them off. Now, on the non-visible phone, turn on hotspot services, set it up with a different SSID and connect your Xbox to the wifi of the non-visible phone You SHOULD then be connecting the Xbox to the hotspot of the non-visible phone, which is connected to the hotspot on the visible phone, with PairVPN in between, bypassing any rate limiting. Make better sense? Let me know.

@@HicSvntDracones Thanks for the response, Yeah I think I understand and will give it a try. I just moved and I'm waiting for my Dad to bring my tv up in his truck soon. I'll let you know how went in the future.

I'm really not sure, I haven't dealt with mobile hotspots much, but this is really focused on android phone hotspots, since that is sort of what the app was designed for. I'm not even sure if hotspot routers are speed limited or not, as it is the only function they provide. You can test it out and see if your speeds are reduced when using it, then let us know

@@HicSvntDracones it’s just weird, on my iPad it reads 100MBS when I do a speed test, but in practice, when watching youtube or trying to play a game it feels much slower.

@@zLusso That is due to how the internet works, it isn't one service, it is a mix of thousands and thousands of different networks of varying quality. When you speed test, you are testing from the closest location with a very large pipe, giving you the speed from your provider to you, in reality, your connection might have to travel a very far distance, over a variety of different connections, depending on where the server you are connecting to is at, and if one of those is slower or overcrowded, you get lower speeds, you are also limited to what the servers can run at, and even like with KZfaq, they use traffic shaping to reduce speeds for certain users so that the speed can be leveled out. I am running on an average 700 mb/s Verizon UWB and I occasionally have KZfaq slow down, and try to set my quality at 480 or so, but then it jumps. My downloads also usually max out at 5-20 mbs, being the max the servers i am connected to will deliver. So you are fully reliant on the thousands of other networks you travel over to get to the source. and return, some of which might be limited to 100 mbs or even 5 mbs at times, which is then divided among everyone else. Gaming varies heavily depending if teh server is hosted by a user or a company, but you still have all the individual users speeds to consider if it is multiplayer. As more people get more speeds, things will get better, but right now, most of the world is still on 5-20 mb/s or lower. . High speeds are also really designed to allow multiple things to happen at once, such as watching video, while downloading, while someone else is gaming,, rather than letting you do one thing at crazy speeds.

@@HicSvntDracones that makes a lot more sense now. I was confused cus I always thought my internet was decent, and in practice it kinda sucked. Thanks for clearing this up, because I didn’t get a clear answer for like 2 years, and I’ve been searching on YT on and off tryna find a solution, or at least an answer to my problem. You earned a subscriber 🙏

@@zLusso Thanks! I might actually do a video on this, my most sucessful videos are tech related, and most of my experience is in tech, but I have avoided doing a lot of tech videos due to the amount of other tech related KZfaqrs, but if anyone brings me a good topic no one else is covering, I will definitely cover it. Thanks!

The video explains it fairly well, I think. So your provider will limit your hotspot speeds to your computer to about 5 mb/s unless you are paying extra for hotspot access. If you want to get unlimited speeds, without paying additional fees, then you need to hide that your computer is using any data, from the hotsot, you can do this by using a very short vpn tunnel, one between the computer and phone only, so that all data looks like it is coming from the phone, the VPN and any data going over it can't be seen by the provider as long as it terminates before hitting the internet, you can do this with PairVPN. A regular VPN wont work, because the provider can still compare the TTL of packets to tell that you have an extra device using a VPN, that is why the VPN needs to terminate before the Internet, where your provider can detect it

That message appears when the app can't get Internet. So, connect the hotspot, and be sure you can get online first from your computer, before turning on PairVPN. So turn on your hotspot, connect the PC to the hotpsot, test the internet connection from the PC, if it works, then connect PairVPN. You need Data for it to work, so if your provider cut off your data because you reached a data limit, PairVPN won't bypass that, unless the limit is ONLY for hotpsot. Does your phone still have data? If it does, it is possible they are blocking your ability to turn on the hotspot in the first place due to data limit, so try a different hotspot, like PDAnet+ to connect it

You can use it on a phone also, any android device in theory, but not sure why you would want to connect one phone to the wifi hotspot of another phone and bypass the 5 mb speed limit imposed on most hotpsots for a mobile device. This doesn't bypass your phones data speed limit, only the limit when sharing a phones internet to other devices.

Download the APK and install it rather than getting from play store.

Did you turn on pairvpn on the server/phone? That is where it asks for a code, then on your PC, turn on PairVPN and make sure it is setup for Client, when you connect, it will give you a code to put in the server.