Like renting out a spare room, hosts earn by sharing their home internet. Digital nomads connect to show online from the host’s location, wherever they’re working from.
Connect a home server (about $80) to your router and follow our 30-minute setup guide. Verified remote workers then reach the internet through your home connection over an
encrypted tunnel, kept apart from your own devices and network. You set your own price: at our suggested $49 a month, you keep about $34 in passive income for each digital nomad.
Read our software before you install it on your off-the-shelf home server
For digital nomads · find a host
Work from a real home from the host you choose.
Remote workers book a stay on a host’s home internet. Connect a travel router (about $80) to any café or hotel
Wi-Fi, or use the free WireGuard app on your phone, and websites see a residential connection in your host’s city, not a VPN.
Hosts set their own prices, from $39 to $69 a month; we suggest $49. Bookings open in each city as soon as it has a host.
Every host’s speed is tested and shown on their profile
No speed or data limits
Every host and nomad verifies their identity with Stripe.
How to get started
AirNomadNetwork connects remote workers and digital nomads with verified hosts who share their spare home internet. Hosts earn monthly. Nomads get a true residential connection, and their location appears to be the host’s. Everyone is identity-checked, and your traffic never passes through our servers.
Verify your identity
A photo ID and a selfie, checked once by Stripe before nomads can book you. Nomads never learn who you are.
Set up your home server
The pilot uses the GL.iNet Brume 2 (what to buy), connected to your home router. Our host setup guide walks you through it, including installing our agent with one command.
We link it to your account
Your home server applies its safety rules automatically, and your dashboard shows who’s connected, data used and whether your home network is walled off.
Earn passive income
You set your monthly price and keep 70% of what nomads pay, as passive income. Pause it from your dashboard whenever you like.
Verify your identity
A photo ID and a selfie, checked once by Stripe before your first booking. Every nomad is a verified person, which is why hosts say yes.
Pick a host
Choose a host by city. You choose; nothing is routed blindly.
Load the profile
We recommend a travel router like the Beryl AX (what to buy): load your connection file on it and turn on its encrypted DNS, which keeps the names of sites you visit private from your host on every device. Or scan the QR code with the WireGuard app on your phone. The secret code that protects your connection is made on your own device.
Connect and work
Clear the café or hotel Wi-Fi sign-in page, then your traffic exits through your host’s home connection. Websites and services see your host’s location, not yours. With your work VPN on, your employer sees your host’s location too, while sites you reach through the VPN see your company’s network, as they would at home.
What could you earn?
Earn from your spare internet without handing it to anonymous strangers. Every nomad is ID-verified, you can read our software before you install it, pause anytime, and remove it with one command.
Set it and forget it
Once your home server is set up, the income is passive. Nomads book, connect and leave without you lifting a finger, and you earn every month.
Often while you sleep
Nomads in other time zones often do their workday during your night, when your connection would otherwise sit idle.
Light on your connection
Remote work is mostly video calls, email and documents. A video call uses a few megabits per second, a small slice of most home plans. Need it all back? Pause anytime.
Build a reputation that earns bookings. We measure every host’s upload speed and availability. Hosts with a fast
upload earn a Fast badge, hosts who are almost always online earn Reliable, and badged hosts are listed first when
nomads choose.
Hosts set their own monthly price, between $39 and $69. At our suggested $49, you keep 70%: about $34 a month for each nomad.
Estimates only. Actual earnings depend on demand in your area.
$69
per month to you at the suggested $49, before taxes
Built so hosts and nomads can both relax
We chose accountability over anonymity. That is what makes a home connection safe to share.
Everyone is identity-checked
Nomads and hosts verify a photo ID and a selfie with Stripe, and every booking is tied to a verified member. A closed account can’t come back under a new email.
Your home network is walled off
Nomads get the internet and nothing else. Your laptops, cameras, smart-home gear and the home server’s own settings are unreachable, and if that wall can’t be put up, the home server disconnects every nomad.
We never see your traffic
Traffic travels in an encrypted tunnel from the nomad’s device to the host’s router, so café and hotel networks see only scrambled data, and none of it passes through AirNomadNetwork. The secret code that protects a nomad’s connection is made on their own device and never sent to us.
Hosts don’t see who nomads are
Hosts never see a nomad’s name or email, and nomads see only a host’s city until they book. Once connected, a nomad can see the host’s internet address and its approximate area, as any website can, but never the street address.
Abuse is traceable
Each nomad gets their own private lane on your connection (a block of “ports”). If your internet provider sends a complaint listing a time and port, we can name the exact booking, end that nomad’s access and tell you what we found.
Your hardware, your call
The home server is yours. Unplug it at any time and every connection through it stops.
How AirNomadNetwork is different
Not a VPN
VPNs send you through server farms that websites recognize. AirNomadNetwork connects you through a real home in the city you pick.
No home base needed
Home-router kits only work if you have a home, and someone to keep a router running there. With AirNomadNetwork, you pick a host city and connect.
Not a bandwidth-sharing app
Those apps sell your connection to people you’ll never know. AirNomadNetwork hosts only carry ID-verified remote workers, every booking is traceable, and your home network stays walled off.
Questions people ask first
Does hosting slow down my internet?
Usually not much. Remote work is light: a video call uses a few megabits per second, and nomads in other time zones often work while you sleep. A nomad’s downloads do use your upload speed, so plans with slow upload notice it more, especially with several nomads at once (a host takes at most five). There are no per-nomad speed limits, because nomads are remote workers who need full speed, so check your plan’s upload speed and any data cap before you sign up. You can pause hosting from your dashboard at any time.
What if my internet provider contacts me?
Report it from My Hosting Connection in the app with the date, time and port from the notice. Each nomad uses their own private lane on your connection, so we can usually match the notice to one booking. We end that nomad’s access and reply to you with what we found.
Is hosting allowed by my internet provider?
It depends on your plan. Many home internet plans don’t allow sharing your connection outside your household, and if yours doesn’t, your provider could warn you or suspend your service. We recommend telling your provider you’re hosting before you start; some grant permission, and business plans often allow it. It’s your decision. Our host setup guide has a message you can send.
Can nomads find out where I live?
Not your address. While connected, a nomad can see your home’s internet (IP) address and roughly what city or area it’s in, just as any website you visit can. They can’t see your street address or your name: only your internet provider can link that address to your home, and we never show nomads who you are. Nomads can’t reach your home network through AirNomadNetwork. To stay safe from the wider internet too, keep your home router’s software up to date and don’t expose devices like cameras or remote access online.
What equipment do I need?
Hosts need a home server, the GL.iNet Brume 2 (about $70–90), connected to their home router, and a home internet connection that can host (check before you buy). Nomads just need a phone or laptop with the free WireGuard app; we recommend a GL.iNet Beryl AX travel router (about $70–100), which connects all your devices on one booking and hides the sites you look up from your host. See what to buy and where.
How is this different from apps that pay you for bandwidth?
Those apps resell your connection to buyers you can’t see, and when something goes wrong it lands on your home. AirNomadNetwork has no anonymous users: every nomad is ID-verified and bound by our rules, abuse can be traced to a single booking, the nomad responsible is cut off, and nomads can never reach your home network.
What do founding hosts get?
The first 100 hosts whose connections come online get a
permanent Founding host label on their profile, and an $80 credit toward their home server once their
connection has been online at least 90% of its first 3 months. The credit is added to your earnings from paid bookings.
Full terms.
How much does it cost?
Each host sets a monthly price between $39 and $69, and we suggest $49. It covers one booking with no speed or data limits, and you see the price before you book. Hosts keep 70% of it. There’s nothing else to pay us; the only other cost is your own equipment (what you need).
What records do you keep?
For each booking: which member, which host, when it started and ended, its private lane (port block), and how much data it used each minute. We never record where data goes: no sites, no addresses, for nomads or hosts. Hosts see their own bookings by number and data amount, never who the nomad was. We use these records to answer abuse reports, and per-minute data is deleted after six months.
What happens if I’m reported?
We only act when the evidence points to your booking: the port and time on the internet provider’s notice, and data moving through your booking at that moment. You’ll see what was reported and can give your side. A first copyright notice is a warning; a second closes the account. Attacks, spam, malware and abuse material suspend the account while we investigate.
Where can I use it?
Nomads can connect from almost anywhere in the world: hotels, cafés, phone hotspots. A few countries block this kind of encrypted connection, so it may not work there, and we can’t serve places under US sanctions. Hosts need a home in the US during the pilot; hosting somewhere else? Request an invite and we’ll review it.
Is anything blocked?
Only a few things, to protect hosts: sending email straight to mail servers (port 25, how spam is sent; email apps still work), the host’s home network and router, other nomads, newer-style (IPv6) internet addresses, and incoming connections to a nomad. There are no speed or data limits and no sites are blocked. See exactly what’s blocked and why.
How do I choose a host?
Pick the city you need. Each host shows its upload speed as a range, from slower times of day to typical (say, 60–85 Mbps), and how often it was available over the last 30 days, all measured by us, not claimed by the host. Fast hosts have 50 Mbps or more upload; Reliable hosts were available 99% of the last 30 days and didn’t cut off a nomad by pausing. Every host has at least 20 Mbps upload, enough for video calls.
Can my host see what I do online?
No. Your host can’t read your traffic: secure sites (the padlock in your browser) keep pages, messages, passwords and calls private. Like any Wi-Fi network or internet provider, their connection could show which sites you connect to and how much data you use, about the same as public Wi-Fi, except your host is ID-verified and has agreed never to capture or inspect your traffic, and other people on your café or hotel network see only scrambled data. Keep your work VPN on and your host sees only that you’re connected to it. Your employer still sees your host’s location, since the VPN connects from your host’s address; sites you reach through the work VPN see your company’s network, as they would at home. (A consumer VPN on top would replace your host’s address, so skip it.) A travel router with encrypted DNS also hides the sites you look up.
Will it work on every hotel or airport network?
Almost always, but not guaranteed. Connections run directly between routers, and some restrictive networks block that. Switching networks, or using a phone hotspot, usually solves it.
Is this the same as a commercial VPN?
No. You exit through a real residential address in a city you pick, with a member host on the other end, instead of a shared server farm.
Where we’re starting
Legal and platform core
Terms of service, a fair process for internet-provider complaints, and the matching service.
Your own hardware
Hosts use their own store-bought home server (the GL.iNet Brume 2) with a one-command setup they can read first and remove anytime. Nomads load a QR code or connection file.
Pilot across the US
Our first 50 to 100 founding hosts, wherever they live, and a first group of remote workers.
Become a founding host
The pilot is invite-only and open to homes anywhere in the US. We’re inviting hosts first and opening bookings to nomads as each city fills up. Tell us a
little about you and we’ll email you when there’s a spot. Hosting outside the US? Request an invite and we’ll review it:
some countries need extra steps first.
Founding host perks, for the first 100 hosts
An $80 credit toward your home server, added to your earnings once your connection has been online 90% of its first 3 months