I’m using Netshare app on my Android phone to WiFi tether to cellular data. I can successfully connect my GL-MT3000 to the phone with the app, however, I have no Internet access. The app connection instructions are to set the proxy and port to specific settings, however I don’t know how to do that on the GL-MT3000 router.
Any help would be appreciated!
Why don’t you create Hotspot with the phone settings instead of using an additional App?
You can easily create Hotspot using Android: Share a mobile connection by hotspot or tethering on Android - Android Help
Supposedly the app gets around data caps and speed throttling.
Yes, I can use hotspot/tethering on the cell phone, but speed will be slower.
I do not use Android but in theory you should get the same speed by switching to 5GHz from the stock hotspot settings.
How did you do that?
I can connect my phone to the modem using the normal hotspot/tethering, however, I’m throttled to 3G speed by my cell plan.
With the Netshare app, the provider doesn’t see the connection as a hotspot, so I get data at 5G speed. Only thing I need to know is how to set up a proxy/port connection on the GL-MT3000 router…
NetShare - no-root-tethering
About this app
Create WiFi Hotspot to share cellular data or extend your existing WiFi connection just as a WiFi Repeater. NO TETHERING PLAN OR Tether fees required.
Support android 6 and above
Work in android 6 and above in which hotspot / tethering features are blocked.
Bypass tethering / hotspot block.
Your tethering is completely hidden & undetectable.
Create portable WiFi Hotspot while connected to WiFi network to share WiFi connection from your device to other devices as a WiFi Repeater.
Using WiFi Tether which is more faster than Bluetooth, and C libraries to make WiFi Tether faster than ever.
Extend weak WiFi signal Using your phone.
Facebook page NetShare app
change the TTL to avoid the throttling!
After you connect your GL to the phone’s Hotspot please login to your GL:
https://192.168.8.1/cgi-bin/luci/admin/network/diagnostics
And perform all the three diagnostics and paste the result here:
The NetShare looks like it runs a proxy server on your Android smartphone. This would be similar to the PdaNet+ and Every Proxy apps on Android, both of which I have used and basically work. I prefer Every Proxy over PdaNet+.
If so, you need a proxy client on the GL-MT3000 to router traffic to the proxy IP address and port number on the Android smartphone. I have not personally done this, but you can try the following:
For a few client devices when I travel, I just run Every Proxy on a spare Android smartphone and connect Android/iPad/Windows devices directly to it because they all have proxy clients built-in.
I do not work for and I am not directly associated with GL.iNet
Was there ever any resolution to this question on how to set up proxy and port?
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I have a similar issue, Any luck with configuration?
I eventually gave up.
I ran into issues with the proxy settings and with the limited resources available online I gave up too. I wish there were a router-friendly alternative similar to PairVPN.
I did manage to find a workaround using EasyTether. I had to SSH into the router, locate the appropriate ipk file online to install it on the router. The downside is that it only supports USB tethering. Even though 5G connection offers native speeds of around 220 Mbps on the phone, I only get about 90 Mbps on the Beryl and 45 Mbps on the Mudi. I’m not sure if the type of cable I’m using is causing a speed limitation. Anyone have suggestions for improving these speeds?
I switched to a USB 3.2 Type A to C cable and I "think" it increased my speeds. I couldn't swear to it though, because my speeds on Visible can be quite random. (Beryl MT-3000)
I've been searching the internet for an answer to this question for a few hours, and what I have found is that most people don't understand the question or the context, and the few that do understand it, don't have a straight answer.
In my case, I started looking into these settings as a workaround to my mobile provider's hotspot restrictions. If your data plan comes with hotspot support, you can simply enable the built-in hotspot or tethering feature of your phone, and you are good to go, but if it doesn't, the most straightforward solution I came up with was this:
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Install and setup a proxy app on your phone. I'm currently using TetherFi, but there are other options. I found TetherFi to be very simple, they will guide you through the process. You still need to enable USB tethering on your phone (but not the hotspot). The key difference is that the hotspot feature of your phone, will ask your data provider if they are okay with you trying to use that service, but your apps won't. The proxy is just another app, that forwards the traffic to the internet. Yes, it is much nicer to have your phone simply redirect all the traffic for you without any proxies in between, but again, this is a workaround without a hotspot-enabled data plan.
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Setup the proxy IP and port details on your client machine, not the router! You basically don't need to do anything on the router as long as tethering is working. I see people trying to setup the router to forward the traffic to the proxy, or installing additional proxies on the router, you don't have to do this.
For example if you are connecting from a Windows machine to the router, enter the IP and port of your phone's app directly in the Proxy settings for Windows. You traffic will go to the router, and because you setup a Proxy, it will "passthrough" the router and go to the phone, where it will be served to the proxy application, which will simply forward it to the internet.
And that's all...
I was basically over engineering this issue, but the solution was much more simple than I thought. Hope this helps someone else out there too.
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Here is new information on solving this problem
https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/working-settings-for-http-proxy-pdanet-tetherfi-netshare-tethering
Well I've been at it for a few days now (and trying to solve the broader problem for literally years). 
Amen!
Thank you for explicitly stating this. In hindsight it seems so obvious now, but I have been banging my head against trying to set TTL and all kind of other things but the problem was much simpler all along.
I read another comment elsewhere along the lines that Google is no longer a nerdy tech startup but rather a major player now and is simply going along with the demands of the carriers at this point. It's all starting to make sense now. 
Independently I already came to the same conclusion (I'm even using TetherFi) however this is only working from Android devices for me, not my laptop running GNU/Linux (oddly enough, where you would think it should be easy to set up a proxy, lol).
I don't really want to install yet another unknown program, especially onto my router.
I keep thinking that there must be some simple way to have the router connect to the proxy as the upstream source in a repeater configuration, but I'll be damned if I can figure out how.
Hey!, so im not very much of an expert in the slightest, but my current setup at home is using tailscale and setting my phone as an exit node in the software, my hotspot limit is 15gb a month and i use over 200gb every month through my computer and it works extrordiarily well!, i read up about what "PairVPN" is (same people who made PairVPN also made PDAnet+) and it seemd to just be a localized vpn connecting my computer to my phone and making it look like vpn data!, so i tried using tailscale with that exact thought in mind and it works flawlessly!, didnt even really need to tweak any settings, and i know the GL.Inet routers support tailscale so it should?, work pretty well!, im currently getting a Spitz AX (GL-X3000) just to test it out!. fingers crossed!.