Good afternoon. I travel a ton for pleasure and I’m looking for a solution for unlimited Internet while traveling. I have a solution now that works, but I am trying to downsize the amount of devices needed. Right now I am using PairVPN from my iPhone to my my Microsoft surface. From my Microsoft surface, I set up a mobile hotspot through the window settings and then pair via PairVPN. After that I go into networking sharing center and share the connection between the mobile hotspot adapter and pair VPN adapter. I can then have pretty much unlimited Internet when traveling. The surface has to be on and awake for the mobile hotspot to share. Wanted to cut out the middle man and see if there was a way to connect PairVPN with iPhone hotspot to a travel router so I could share out my iPhones hotspot efficiently?
I haven’t tried it but I find something a little mysterious and odd about PairVPN.
I think I understand how to use it. You make one device a server and then you connect to it from client devices which can be anywhere. The client can access the internet connection of the server.
I don’t know if the fact that the server uses on-device data, therefore bypassing hotspot limits, is an intentional feature or just a side effect. It’s not mentioned at all in their “What are the uses of PairVPN?” list but it’s the feature that I see most often mentioned elsewhere. It’s often the one reason someone uses it and is often mentioned as an alternative to the likes of PdaNet+ or EasyTether. I guess that could be because of the forums I tend to read.
The website says “a PairVPN server will register itself with our gate-keeping server”. It’s not clear to me how much that gate-keeping is involved in the day to day operations. It seems a pity to have some external server involved if I just want a proxy server in the same house or my RV.
It’s all free which makes me wonder why. Is someone just doing it for a hobby? Are they planning on selling it later? Someone must be paying for the gate-keeping server.
I can’t find any information on who or where “Zx Mobile Company” are. All we have is a photo of the cheap chief scientist.
It sounds like you could use any of GL.iNet’s line. https://www.gl-inet.com/
PairVPN often crashes on my iPhone, so I can’t trust to let it run for hours at time. Does it ever crash for you?
It works well. Use it all the time.
Do you have any videos/links or know how to set this up? I looked online and couldn’t find anything at all. Would hate to buy router and it not work. Pair VPN seems niche and couldn’t find anything else online about this specific scenario.
Circling back to this… Yes it is now crashing for me on iPhone… I have it setup that I share to my pc and then share out VPN adapter via an app called connectify. When I have too much activity on the shared out vpn network iPhone app crashes. Did you find a solution by chance?
I’ve never had it crash. Are you on the latest iOS version? Also, make sure to toggle on the “share location” button on PairVPN server screen. If you don’t pair vpn will disconnect if you lock phone or exit app screen. It’s been reliable though.
I am in the same situation right now. I’d like to use pairVPN client on a GLiNet router, but want confirmation that it can be installed before I shell out for the router. Did you ever try this?
What does PairVPN do that any other VPNs don’t? I’m sorry, I’m not familiar with it.
Yes on latest version and yes on share location. Could it not be an issue with the server on my iPhone, but rather the client on my Mac?
To my knowledge it can’t. I barely use my router. Couldn’t find anything online and PairVPN support wouldn’t respond to me regarding this despite multiple emails.
It’s a vpn on iPhone where you can mask the hotspot traffic from cell carrier so they don’t throttle your hotspot speeds when you surpass your hotspot limit for the cycle. You have to setup a PairVPN connection on both devices though. Don’t think most routers would be able to run the pair vpn app.
Thanks. Isn’t this more of a question for GL.iNet support though? Or are you saying that PairVPN doesn’t provide the download files to even get started trying?
Np. Haven’t checked with GL.inet support, but you have to have the pair vpn client on the router which isn’t a thing, to my knowledge. PairVPN doesn’t provide anything other than the install files .exe