How can I hide my access to a pool from ISP?

[galaxy5user]

I know about VPN, but it seems to be overkill if I just need to hide 1 or 2 pools (for example, substitute them with different name or IP-address, so the real access to pool will be hidden from ISP).

[Tidsdilatation]

Maybe a stupid question, but why would you want to hide your mining from your ISP? Are you afraid the government are gonna ask ISPs to list customers that are connecting to mining pools in order to collect tax? Seems abit excessive if you ask me.

[galaxy5user]

There is unpredictable governments which can throw anything, including capturing of a hardware. Why are asking stupid questions? Are you one of them?

[fanatic26]

A VPN is the only way you can mask your IP, there really isnt any other answer.

[2stout]

Perhaps look into Network Address Translation (NAT) and Port Address Translation (PAT).  Also, may want to consider proxies and TOR browser.

[fanatic26]

Perhaps look into Network Address Translation (NAT) and Port Address Translation (PAT).  Also, may want to consider proxies and TOR browser.

None of those things has anything to do with what he is asking about. Changing ports does not mask traffic, and TOR only encrypts its own sessions.

[2stout]

Perhaps look into Network Address Translation (NAT) and Port Address Translation (PAT).  Also, may want to consider proxies and TOR browser.

None of those things has anything to do with what he is asking about. Changing ports does not mask traffic, and TOR only encrypts its own sessions.

You make good points, not sure if OP was trying to mask traffic or disguise real access to the pool.  Just putting out additional ideas that can be looked into further or rejected as things are trying to be figured out, if not already.

[d00f]

You can use TOR. All the traffic going from your tor router to the ISP will be encrypted. If you have access to a remote unix host you can usually run an SSH tunnel for the connection. That's what I did when electroneum blocked all of OVH since I run a server farm there and was using spare cycles to mine cryptonight.

[tipac]

best advice is to get nordvpn or perfect-privacy, they are only 10$ a month (i used both of them) and are very reliable to hide everything you do online. you can also chose what area you want to be seen.
you won't find a better alternative than this