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.

  • 0xd34d@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    101·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • SIGSEGV@waveform.socialEnglish
      20·
      11 months ago

      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.

      T-Mobile used to work the same way when I used it back in 2016.

      • not_again@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • SIGSEGV@waveform.socialEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          Surely there is some way to configure this on Windows. I’m so unfamiliar with Windows software anymore, but I’m sure that any firewall worth it’s salt would be able to increase the TTL on outbound packets.

          • Spiritreader@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            I think on windows you can set that in the network driver options irrc. Either in the nic configuration or the ip stack config. I’ve at least seen it while I was diagnosing network issues a few years back.

        • SIGSEGV@waveform.socialEnglish
          41·
          11 months ago

          iptables on my laptop (not tethered, but using the phone’s wifi hotspot). I don’t even have a jailbroken android phone anymore because my banking app stopped working on custom ROMs and fighting with it wasn’t a good use of my time.