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.
If your phone is unlocked then this feature is free already.
Do you do it? How?
Just go to hotspot in your settings and enable it. If you have an unlocked device. If it’s locked you can root the device to get this functionality.
Yeah, but carriers can see that it’s hotspot traffic for 2 reasons: packet time to live is different on computers and android (and AOSP) snitches you out. So they throttle it or send you to a captive portal.
TTL on Android is 64 by default. Anyone can change their TTL on a PC to 64 which is why I am not willing to believe carriers use TTL as a metric for determining who is on PC or mobile. At least not without seeing evidence to support this. That would be incredibly stupid of them to do.
They use everything available to them. Browser fingerprinting with metadata, packet TTL, all of it. And AOSP snitches you out also, I think theres a magisk module or something that can fix that.
I just don’t see why they wouls use any of that as it all can be faked. I’m going to set fake user agents on my mobile browser and change my devices TTL to 128 (windows default) and see if I can supply any other fake metadata just to see what happens. Can you supply any documentation showing that carriers use any of that data to prevent using a hotspot? What do you mean by “aosp snitches you out”, I’ve used official and custom roms for at least a decade and used hotspots weekly across all of them and I’ve never had any kind of issue.
I’ve used root or unlocked devices for years and have never had an issue with throttling or a portal. I use a hotspot on my laptop weekly.
Well it’s different per carrier. Some carriers sell some GB limit for hotspot with their data plans.
I used ATT for ~ 5 years and then switched to Verizon for ~ 2 years, now I’m on straight talk which is a reseller for Verizon and ATT. Never had an issue using unlocked or rooted hotspots.