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A VLESS Tunnel to Your Own SIM for the Whole Month

A plain proxy login works, but it sends your credentials and your traffic across every network between you and our rack in a form those networks can inspect, and some of them block proxy ports outright. The VLESS option on a SimProxies line wraps the whole connection in a tunnel that looks like ordinary HTTPS until it reaches our server, where it exits on your SIM. For a line you are going to keep for a month, it is worth setting up once and leaving in place. This guide covers phones first, then computers, then the settings that decide whether the tunnel actually hides your location.

What the tunnel changes and what it does not

With a tunnel, the networks between your device and our server see a TLS session to a large public website and nothing else: no proxy port, no username, no destinations. The tunnel terminates on our server in the United States, and from there your traffic goes through your modem and leaves on the SIM's carrier address. Sites see a phone on a US carrier in your SIM's city, exactly as they would with the plain login.

What the tunnel does not change is the device. Time zone, language, location services and the browser's own leaks are untouched. If the goal is to appear as a user in the SIM's city, those still need to agree with the address.

Copy the link from your dashboard

Sign in to the SimProxies dashboard, open your line, and find the VLESS row on its card. The copy button gives you a single vless:// link that contains the server, the port, your id and the handshake details. Treat that link as a password. If it ever leaks, use the revoke button on the same card and copy a fresh one. VLESS is offered on our server-based lines; when ordering or moving, tick the VLESS filter so the dashboard shows only locations that support it.

Phones

A phone through a tunnel to your own SIM is the closest thing to carrying that SIM in your pocket.

  1. iPhone: install V2Box or Streisand from the App Store. Open the app, add a configuration, choose import from clipboard with the vless:// link copied, select it and connect. Approve the VPN profile when iOS asks.
  2. Android: install v2rayNG from Google Play. Tap the plus button, import from clipboard, select the new entry and start it. Approve the VPN request.
  3. On either phone, open a browser and load an IP check page. You should see a US carrier address in your SIM's city.
  4. Set the phone's time zone to the SIM's city and turn off location services for the apps you will use through the tunnel, or GPS will contradict the address.
  5. Leave the tunnel connected. Rotating the SIM from the dashboard changes the carrier address without disconnecting the phone.

Windows and Mac

On a computer the tunnel client exposes a local SOCKS or HTTP port, and your browser profile or tool points at that local port instead of at our server directly.

  1. Windows: install v2rayN from its releases page. Import the vless:// link from the clipboard, select the server and enable the system proxy or note the local port it listens on.
  2. Mac: install V2Box from the Mac App Store, import the link from the clipboard and connect. It exposes a local port as well as a system-wide mode.
  3. Point your antidetect profile or your script at the local port if you want only that application tunneled, or enable the system mode if everything on the machine should use the SIM.
  4. Load an IP check page through the tunneled application and confirm the carrier and the city.
  5. Disable WebRTC in the browser profile, or the site can learn your real local address through it even though the tunnel is up.

Keeping it steady for a month

The tunnel link stays valid for as long as the line exists, which on a monthly plan that renews is indefinitely. Two events change it: revoking it yourself, and moving the plan to another city, which issues a new link because the server changes. Everything else, including rotation and renewal, leaves the link alone. Set it up once on each device, confirm the address, and treat it like a SIM you carry.

If the tunnel connects on one network and not on another, the failing network is blocking the port in your link; ask support for a line served on the standard HTTPS port. If nothing connects anywhere, check the device clock, because the handshake needs an accurate time and travellers often have automatic time switched off. If the client reports an invalid id, the line was moved since you copied the link; copy the current one.

Plain login or tunnel?

Use the plain HTTP or SOCKS5 login when the tool you are using has its own proxy field and you trust the network you are on. Use the tunnel when you are on hotel, office or foreign networks, when a proxy port is blocked, or when the whole phone should go through the SIM. Both reach the same SIM and the same address; the tunnel just hides the path.

Frequently asked

Does the tunnel change which IP sites see?

No. The tunnel ends on our server and traffic leaves on your SIM's carrier address, the same one the plain login uses.

Can I use the tunnel on my phone and my laptop at once?

Yes, within the line's connection limit. Both exit on the same SIM and the same address.

Is the tunnel slower than the plain login?

The distance to the US dominates either way. The tunnel adds very little, and it often connects where a plain proxy port is blocked.

Does rotating the SIM break the tunnel?

No. The tunnel stays connected and the carrier address behind it changes. Only moving the plan to another city issues a new link.

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