I’m a Google One subscriber and liked using the One VPN to connect my laptop to my library’s public wifi. I was upset when they killed it and the desktop app with it. Since I have an 8 pro I have access to the Google VPN but there’s no desktop app associated with it. While my phone is connected to public wifi and VPN is active, I tried wifi hotspot on my phone but I don’t have tethering plan. Phone automatically disabled tethering after a few minutes. This requires me to disable my SIM, thus disabling phone calls.
Is there a way to only share the WIFI and VPN connection without disabling my SIM? It seems I don’t have option to just disable 5g data anymore. I’m on Android 15 beta if that affects anything.
Edit: I found data disable, they moved it to SIM from wireless settings. I’m still curious if there’s a way to only share wifi connection with hotspot without disabling data wholesale.
Enabling hotspot does not share the VPN connection with clients. So, even if you find a way around your tethering issue, you’re not going to get the result you’re looking for anyway.
Netshare and PDANet+ can share the VPN connection, tried it myself with the Google One VPN. They create a wifi network over wifi direct, and on the other device you have to set up a proxy for the wifi connection.
On Android and iOS clients this is a one-time deal cause they remember proxies for each wifi network, but Windows still has the internet proxy system-wide so you have to enable/disable it every time you connect, or in the case of PDANet you can install their Windows program. Netshare has instructions to run a command line script.
Yup, I found this out not too long ago.
So you’re out of luck OP, sorry.
Thank you. Classic Google to kill off a useful product and replace it with inferior one. Didn’t really want to pay more for VPN if I had one for free. I guess I’ll just stay off sensitive sites in public.
VPNs on public networks are a ‘nice to have’ but they’re not necessary. The Internet isn’t what it was 15 years ago. It is perfectly safe, for instance, to do banking on public wifi regardless of what the VPN marketing out there is telling everyone.