Does anyone know of a method to force WiFi clients connected to a hotspot on a phone (Rooted Verizon Note 3 (4.3)) through a proxy server running on the phone to filter ads or block hosts? I know there are applications, and I know there are projects like a Raspberry Pi to run adblocking, but a majority of the time I use several different WiFi devices which are tethered to my (officially subscribed) mobile hotspot feature.
Thanks!
-Rob
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I have a really weird problem I am trying to solve. (Hopefully this makes sense)
I have an app on 2 different android phone and Fiddler on PC (android can connect to it through HTTP Proxy).
How can I have the two phones internet traffic (of at least that one app) run through fiddler BUT without access to a WIFI internet connecftion (using mobile data only). One phone can tether and is rooted.
And for bonus points... having all that happen behind TOR proxy.
Any input guys? Thanks!
I have a grandfathered Unlimited Verizon Data Plan that my company is paying me to have. I do not like Verizon, and am out of contract, so I recently purchased a Nexus 5 and plan on paying monthly with Ting. I have to maintain a "company phone" but using Google Voice, and importing all my accounts, it is really trivial that I would be using the Nexus 5 on a different carrier, since they only subsidize their employees, the device does not actually belong to them.
Instead of leaving my GS3 in a shoe box somewhere or selling it, I wanted to try using it as a dedicated hotspot for my apartment since I live in an area that has capped data from ISP's and no real solution (read FIOS) yet.
I purchased a Netgear Wireless Bridge Adapter WNCE2001 and set it up to connect to the phone's wifi hotspot and plugged that into the WAN "internet" port of my router running Tomato 1.28 firmware.
All seemed ok as far as ability to surf the web, use netflix from my TV, etc however there was a huge problem with some of the things I host from my internal network, such as media servers Subsonic, and Plex.
I am not able to access anything hosted on my internal network from any external network, even though I have not touched or altered my configurations - just replaced the WAN / "internet" port of my router with the tethered data connection.
After days of research and reading I have attempted a few fixes, although none have truly worked so far:
1) I tried connecting the phone to an open VPN server and then routing that traffic through the built in wifi tethering . This indeed worked - I followed some threads linked below, and was able to verify that now everything on my network was using the Open VPN connection - however I could not figure out a way to forward the ports appropriately and access Subsonic or Plex from the outside world.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1993689
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317841
2) I attempted using SSH tunnel from a remote Linux Server and although I could verify tha the tunnel was getting data piped through, I could not actually access Subsonic or PLex from the outside world. I tried to use tsocks to force all traffic for each service to use an established SSH tunnel but did not have much success.
It is important to note that these methods were tested on a shared server of a friend of mines, as far as I know they do not have root access and can not alter the open VPN or Open SSH configs or manually open ports on the server side. I wanted to just test it out to verify that it could work because I do not have a dedi or vps at the moment, I would consider getting something small from digital ocean or Amazon EC2 if this could actually work.
3) Lastly, I tried to use this port forwarding app, which as far as I can tell did absolutely nothing
Any help or direction is much appreciated, at this point I am more frustrated because after hours of reading and trying things out I feel as though I am now even more confused as to why this isn't / can't / could be working?!?!
Another thread I found here that seems like maybe it could be similar is the ability of getting NAT free with XBL using tethered data. I dont play video games, but I am wondering if something similar could be done using a crossover cable to allow for opening up ports through the wireless ISP as well? The older computer I use to host my media stuff from is running Ubuntu, and I have a Macbook Laptop, I only run Win7/8 in VM's on occasion - ideally though I want to find a solution that only uses the Linux Laptop, the phone, and the router - I can't leave my laptop home.
TLDR;
Halp! :silly:
[old desktop]- - - - ->{ROUTER]- - - - - >[WIFI ADAPTER]- - - ->[TETHERED GS3]- - - >[VZW]- - -> INTERNETS :good:
How to I send media servers from one side to the other and avoid all the NATing and dynamic IP's ? :victory:
I use versavpn with verizon and connect with openvpn. They give 3 ports to forword and dedicated ip. You chose the ports u want to forward on there web site. I have plex and remote desktop and a ftp server running on my unlimited data Verizon plan 300 gigs used a month for 3 years now. This has worked OK for me. I also ditched the tethered phone and went for a 4glte router instead much less hassle.
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Hello
I need to connect to my companies network using the Cisco AnyConnect VPN client. At the same time, I also need to use my companies web proxy, when I wish to access the internet and even some internal sites.
Would anyone know, how this can be configured on rooted Nexus 5 or 7 devices (with OmniRom) and on a Note 3 with stock rom, all using Android 4.4.4?
I do know that I can set a http proxy in the Wi-Fi connection settings and also for the mobile data connection. But this does not seem to have an effect, when I connect to the VPN.
Well…? Any ideas how to set this up? Would be quite a blast - company is actually considering buying iPhone 6 Plus… :crying: For rather obvious reasons, that's not my preferred solution
Thanks a lot,
Alexander
WiFi tethering is a must for me on my phone. Is the V10 compatable with foxfi?
It works. I've been tethering with it but there is a trick to getting it to work which is you are going to need Adguard, at least this appears to be the case.
I have the full Adguard paid service which is a complete blocking of all ads including protecting your phone with a firewall. The reason I think you need Adguard (perhaps a free alternative will work) is because I can't get tethering to work unless I enable it with Adgaurd running. Adguard blocks the tethering from connecting to your PC but blocks the tethering sub notice. So after you start foxfi you just have to pause Adguard and it will connect.
If I try to enable tethering with any app without having Adguard running it will always say I need to subscribe, but if I start tethering while having Adguard running tethering starts and then I just have to pause Adguard and it connects. I'm typing this now on my tethered PC and it's actually been connected for 2 days straight with no drops. Been streaming amazon prime, twitch, and youtube red all in full HD with very little buffering(only have -105db 4g signal strength).
Let me know if this works, or you need more help, I'll do what I can.
Imucarmen. Which adblocker are you using. Don't see an adguard on play. Thanks
Adguard has its own website. Google kicked it off the playstore 2 years ago
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Imucarmen. Which adblocker are you using. Don't see an adguard on play. Thanks
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sorry for the late response but here's the site https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html
I highly recommend it if you don't want ads. It's the most effective ad blocker I've ever used. Just make sure you enable it because you have to do it manually.
This is exactly how I got foxfi to work for me. I also have disabled many lg and Verizon apps. Read somewhere about dtignite app in particular was good to stop.
I have unlimited data and use paid FoxFi 2.17.2 with no issues whatsoever. It does install a root certificate to bypass Verizon checks.
Hi all,
I want to prevent certain apps from accessing my work Wi-Fi, mostly so my employer can't see what I'm doing. Specifically, I don't want to be connected to my employer's Wi-Fi while on Facebook, Evernote, etc.
For some other apps, I still want to use Wi-Fi to save data.
I just installed Tasker and have already a Task set up to shut off Wi-Fi for these apps. My question is: is this really secure? Does anyone think this will prevent my employer from seeing what's on my Facebook, or is there a flaw I'm not thinking of?
Ex: maybe Tasker has a delay which will allow my employer to see Facebook load anyway.
Alternatively, if anyone knows a more efficient way of doing this (in Tasker or anywhere else in Android) that'd be great.
Thanks
Question your boss is a hacker?
Because if he isn't he can't see anything in theory because he doesn't know how.
But you can use vpn connection as Hotspot Shield
so your traffic inside that network and all over the internet is encrypted.
You can also use "Firewall" for that.Firewall apps that they stop apps that you choose from getting access to internet.
if you aren't rooted try this one NoRoot Data Firewall . it use VPN
connection. So this vpn connection is local and when the blocked app tries to connect the internet it just get the localhost ip as gateway . the other apps continue to work normally.
if you are rooted try this one AFWall+ (Android Firewall +)
depends on your needs of course.