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I know this post is long, wordy, and has a lot of details, but if you would give it a quick read and figure out if there are any major flaws in my plan or if you have any suggestions to improve it. 

 

I'm looking to "rent out" my LTE connection using a nice Asus router and a Laptop. 

 

Setup with be like this:

 

iPhone 5s via USB -----> Laptop ----> Ethernet ----> Wifi Router

 

I know I can bridge the connection from my phone to my router because I've done it before. 

 

What I'm worried about is what the other guys here would potentially look up while connected to my internet so I have decided to go with a double VPN/proxy approach. 

 

On my laptop I am using the SoftEther VPN client which creates a virtual network adapter within Windows. I will bridge this to the ethernet instead of from USB. To increase anonymity and reduce the risk of being identified as the origin of some kind of sketchy internet activity I will also input proxy settings into my router to create a sort of two layer deep VPN thing. 

 

Another issue I am facing is the cost of overage fees using LTE. I get around 4 bars in the dorm room so it's a pretty decent connection. At full speed I calculated I could run out of data in just under 2 days. My plan is to limit transfer speeds to 150kb/s down and 20kb/s up. With those speeds split between 6-ish people for about a week where the connection will only be active for about 5 hours a day it shouldn't be that big of an issue. A bunch of guys already said they would pitch in ahead of time to cover the overage cost of about $15 per GB. 

 

 

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Do you have unlimited data? Most carriers impose fair use standards, which you'd likely pass.

I also don't think you'd be able to have that many people getting acceptable speeds off of a single phone.

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ok so im pretty sure thats illegal since there paying for it well atleast in Aus it is but there probs not going to know so i wouldnt really worry the only thing i see as a concern u are talking about all these proxies and vpns which are going to drastically slow down the connection so 150kbps is going to be terrible and data usage i think u are just going to scream threw it i think it would be better just if u all got your seperate 4g dongle things.

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You should be fine doing this but the internet speed will prolly be super slow if you have a lot of people on it at once. lol. 

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I know this post is long, wordy, and has a lot of details, but if you would give it a quick read and figure out if there are any major flaws in my plan or if you have any suggestions to improve it. 

 

I'm looking to "rent out" my LTE connection using a nice Asus router and a Laptop. 

 

Setup with be like this:

 

iPhone 5s via USB -----> Laptop ----> Ethernet ----> Wifi Router

 

I know I can bridge the connection from my phone to my router because I've done it before. 

 

What I'm worried about is what the other guys here would potentially look up while connected to my internet so I have decided to go with a double VPN/proxy approach. 

 

On my laptop I am using the SoftEther VPN client which creates a virtual network adapter within Windows. I will bridge this to the ethernet instead of from USB. To increase anonymity and reduce the risk of being identified as the origin of some kind of sketchy internet activity I will also input proxy settings into my router to create a sort of two layer deep VPN thing. 

 

Another issue I am facing is the cost of overage fees using LTE. I get around 4 bars in the dorm room so it's a pretty decent connection. At full speed I calculated I could run out of data in just under 2 days. My plan is to limit transfer speeds to 150kb/s down and 20kb/s up. With those speeds split between 6-ish people for about a week where the connection will only be active for about 5 hours a day it shouldn't be that big of an issue. A bunch of guys already said they would pitch in ahead of time to cover the overage cost of about $15 per GB. 

 

You'd have to set up limitations for each user, so they don't exceed their gigabyte usage. 

Something like a hotspot splash page with a simple log in script and data tracker/limiter on each would work fine. Otherwise one person could smash through your data and then leave the other guys hanging.

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