When the fuck did a mobile hotspot become something you have to pay extra for?
https://lemm.ee/post/3760268
When the fuck did a mobile hotspot become something you have to pay extra for? - lemm.ee
It’s my goddamn motherfucking mobile data and MY PHONE. I should be able to use
it however I want. My wifi went down because the greedy, cunt-faced shitbags at
Comcast stole taxpayer subsidies to enrich themselves instead of actually
providing the service we’re paying for. I tried to switch to a mobile hotspot
and my phone refuses to open one. Everyone responsible for this shit should be
fed to alligators locked away in a fucking gulag. We have no rights and live in
a corporate plutocracy.
How do they detect that you are using a hotspot? Isn’t the phone using NAT internally? Like, with NAT they don’t know whether a request comes from your phone or from the hotspot
The carrier can look at the packets TTL and assume if it’s not what they expect then it must have originated from another device via the hotspot. Verizon did, or maybe still does, use this to throttle hotspot traffic but not data originating from the phone.
This is correct. I pay for the unlimited plan with Verizon, but it only has 5GB of hotspot data. I use an iptables rule to increment the TTL by one, giving me unlimited data on my laptop.
Very nice. Unfortunately in Windows so no iptables for me. Nice to know this is possible…may have to see if I can do this with vbox or inside WSL.
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