Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 7 months ago
They can detect you using your phone as hotspot? Creepy.
Sometimes it’s based on the TTL of packets. TTL for hotspot clients will be one less than TTL for directly using data on the phone, since the phone is acting as a router, which adds an extra hop.
I think running a HTTP proxy or VPN server on the phone would mask it, but I’ve never tried.
Android phones don’t share VPN connections through the hotspot
Ahh - that’s unfortunate. A HTTP proxy should work though.
It’s not hard to detect when the standard includes the phone indicating what it’s doing to the carrier.
Very creepy.
My provider used MTU as a reference. I simply changed it in hotspot settings and was happy about that
jkrtn@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
The phone reports it, yeah, it is creepy. Should be illegal to even have the knowledge to differentiate.
michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
TTL is a part of TCP/IP.