Tethering phone to router

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In the middle of moving at work and our internet was supposed to be up today. They've rung and said it won't be till next Friday now and we can't go a week without Internet.

None of the pc's have wireless built in. I'm aware I could get dongles over the weekend but ideally that isn't suitable.

My bosses laptop has wifi so he has paid for me to get an extra 10gb data and I can tether my phone to it. But we need Internet on the others, I tried running a tether straight from my iPhone to the router via USB but doesn't seem to work.

The into of thing I can think of is connecting the laptop to the router via wan2 and bridging the connection so the laptop feeds the wireless tether to router and shares the Internet through the network to the PC's would this work and how on earth would I do it? Never actually made a bridge before.

Anyone got any other ideas?

The router is a Draytek vigor2830n of it makes any difference.
 
I thought that's what the USB was for. Is there no way to get it run an iPhone over it though? As iPhone offer the ability to tether over USB.

Also the dongles fine but I can never seem to find any that offer a decent amount of data that aren't monthly contracts
 
It's looking like a dongle is the best bet but apparently EE don't do USB dongles anymore which is great. I'll have to shop around.
 
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