Windows 10 mobile hotspot + VPN

[Finners]

I'm going away on a training course in a little over a week so will be spending a week in a hotel so thought it was a good idea to get my VPN set up on my devices to protect myself.

I then had the thought that I should be able to set up the VPN connection on my Windows 10 laptop and share that connection with the mobile hotspot function and connect my phone/tablet to that and be fine.

The VPN connection on the laptop is done through a program and works fine as it makes me look like i'm in London when I check on whatismyipaddress.com. I can enable the hotspot fine and connect my phone/tablet.

Now the problem, when I check my IP address on the phone/tablet its not being routed through the VPN. Any ideas why?

 

[bremen1874]

Does the VPN software create a virtual network adapter?

If it does is your hotspot using the virtual adapter or the laptops's physical adapter?

I have a similar issue tethering to my phone (iOS). I can connect my phone to my VPN and it routes the traffic as it should. If I then tether my laptop or iPad to the phone their traffic isn't routed via the VPN.

 

[meandu229]

Basically all traffic from your laptop will be routed through the VPN but the rest of the traffic from the tablet/phone wont be as they dont have your VPN client installed / running.
Try using the phone to connect to the VPN then starting hotspot.

Edit: Just tried this and phone didnt seem to want to send any data from the laptop through the VPN.

 

[Finners]

Basically all traffic from your laptop will be routed through the VPN but the rest of the traffic from the tablet/phone wont be as they dont have your VPN client installed / running.
Try using the phone to connect to the VPN then starting hotspot.

Edit: Just tried this and phone didnt seem to want to send any data from the laptop through the VPN.

This works, well at least it does on my iOS tablet but thought I could get around having to have vpn running on phone/tablet/laptop all at the same time if I could just share the laptop connection.

Was trying to avoid it as I don't know yet if my VPN provider will allow 3 simultaneous connections.

I also have control on the laptop of which port the vpn connects through which I think might be useful on a hotel wifi connection which I don't seem to have on iOS.

Does the VPN software create a virtual network adapter?

If it does is your hotspot using the virtual adapter or the laptops's physical adapter?

I have a similar issue tethering to my phone (iOS). I can connect my phone to my VPN and it routes the traffic as it should. If I then tether my laptop or iPad to the phone their traffic isn't routed via the VPN.

It's not called a virtual adapter but it enables a "TAP-Windows Adapter" not sure what that is to be honest.

I just tried it with Windows 10 built in VPN and it works for the laptop but try and enable the hotspot then and my phone/tablet cannot connect to the internet so would seem like maybe it's trying to route it through the VPN but credentials are failing or something.