Surface Pro 3 doesn't come with a SIM slot?
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Apparently there's a network level thing where they can tell if you're downloading via a tethered connection. I don't know how it works, haven't looked into it. The main reason why I wouldn't torrent through my phone (apart form the limited space on it) is that my home internet is much faster and also unlimited
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Apparently there's a network level thing where they can tell if you're downloading via a tethered connection.
The odds are that they are doing something like deep packet inspection and looking for desktop browser user-agent strings and the like.
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The odds are that they are doing something like deep packet inspection and looking for desktop browser user-agent strings and the like.
this. just hop on a VPN on the phone before tethering. bam!
or call up your provider and cuss them out for being assholes, cancel your service and get a provider that isn't assholes about data instead.
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get a provider that isn't assholes about data instead.
Is there one of those in the US?
I have unlimited data on Sprint, but they disable tethering and I'm not about to pay more for it.
I left AT&T because they cancelled my grandfathered unlimited plan because I was tethering.
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The odds are that they are doing something like deep packet inspection and looking for desktop browser user-agent strings and the like.
Random musings here.
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Your phone disables it if the network tells it no tethering allowed
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You phone grasses you up by using a different APN when tethering
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Looking for an off-by-one TTL in packets from tethered devices
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MAC address inspection (can't see how this one would work)
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TCP/IP Stack fingerprinting
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Traffic destination
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DPI
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Your phone disables it if the network tells it no tethering allowed
I saw that with my old HTC Inspire 4G. It stopped when I rooted it and replaced the ROM.
You phone grasses you up by using a different APN when tethering
That's interesting, although I would imagine "custom rom" solves that too?
VPN would probably (?) eliminate all those issues.
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s there one of those in the US?
not one of the big three. but the MVNOs are much better about that.
metroPCS and StraightTalk both don't care about tethering, and all of the other MVNOs i know of "care" in that they say you need to buy their tethering plan, but they don't actually block you.
For main carriers T-Mobile and USCellular do care, but they bake their blocking into the phone rather than the network so you can bypass it by BYOP or rooting.
AFAIK Verizon and AT&T bake their tether blocking into the network per account, so if you get on their network under a MVNO they won't apply it to you because the MVNO has tethering.
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VPN would probably (?) eliminate all those issues.
VPN off the tethered device would still result in off-by-one TTLs, though those could be doctored separately, or you could VPN from the phone.
I've never had a problem with tethering here in the Netherlands. Dunno if that's a network neutrality thing or something else. Also I don't tether often - just the e-reader on holiday.
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VPN would probably (?) eliminate all those issues.
Can you tether while connected to a VPN these days. I know it didn't use to work before.
Then again, last tried on an ancient Android version...
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metroPCS and StraightTalk both don't care about tethering
Interesting. I was looking at MVNOs before I renewed with Sprint this Christmas and couldn't figure out if they allowed tethering or not.
T-Mobile has bad coverage in my office building, so they're not acceptable to me anyway. Ditto AT&T. That leaves the Sprint and Verizon networks (and the metroPCS one, but even though they have a tower literally tens of feet from my building, the coverage in my office ain't great.)
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Finally got the Windows Phone update so I can try tethering with Bluetooth now. Well, not now. I'm on a crowded bus. Later now.
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Finally got the Windows Phone update
Did you do the dev mode thing or did you actually get an update?
I would've probably gotten a winphone last time, except
SamsungSprint's only got two ancient models.
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Did you do the dev mode thing or did you actually get an update?
I told you I'm not doing that dev mode shit and I ain't.
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I told you I'm not doing that dev mode shit
That sentence implies you think I bother to remember you saying something like that.
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Ok playing with Bluetooth tethering.
Good: it seems to stress the phone a lot less, no heat build-up at all using this feature
Bad: man is it slow compared to wifi
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Bad: man is it slow compared to wifi
I've only ever managed to get bluetooth to go up to about the speed of a 56k modem (doing bulk transfers of images off my old phones).
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Actually it got a lot faster right after I posted that, not sure what happened? I can't use it long, phone battery's almost dead.