Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot.

viking@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ech@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is easytether still a thing? That app saved my butt several times.

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  • viking@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not sure tbh, my ISP doesn’t throttle my speed or data when used as a hotspot, luckily, so I didn’t have to look into it for a long time.

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does it? Interesting. I’ll have to try that. I wonder why?

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  • FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There used to be other ways to bypass it as well, like PDAnet, rooting, flashing custom OSes, etc.

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  • viking@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    From what I heard is that a phone used as USB tether identifies as a modem on the computer, and then the traffic is somehow detected differently. I haven’t tested this personally though since my ISP doesn’t cap or throttle me when using hotpsots.

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• mihnt@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • moonpiedumplings@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Have you tried running a vpn to your phone while tethering?

    …github.io/…/unrestricted-tethering/

    I experimented with it a little bit, but it didn’t go anywhere when I discovered my phone already proxies/NATs all my traffic.

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