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rlyshw | 4 years ago

Sorta related;

I often travel for work and was having an annoying time with Verizon’s hotspot throttling. 4G LTE should be able to run at ~5Mbps but devices connected to the hotspot get throttled down to an insufferable 400Kbps. This was super annoying and felt like an arbitrary action on Verizon’s part. I found out I could run a SOCKs proxy on my iPhone via a Pythonista script and tunnel hotspot connections through it to fool Verizon’s throttling systems. Worked great, even though the UX of launching a Pythonista script as a service and pointing clients to it was slightly clunky.

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SilverRed|4 years ago

Apparently they detect hotspot usage using the IP TTL value. If its 1 lower than expected, then it knows there was an extra hop. If you know how, you should be able to just bump up the TTL value sent from your device.

philshem|4 years ago

Some mobile providers have two distinct APNs (access point names) - one for mobile data and one for tethering. In this case, you can rename the tethering one to the mobile data one.

breckenedge|4 years ago

I do love me some Pythonista, but it never occurred to me to run an SSH host in it. I wonder if this would be any easier today using iSH instead.

rlyshw|4 years ago

I'll have to look into it! Now that I've got the 5G-UW plan from Verizon, I wonder if I could actually get >1Gbps to my laptop via wired hotspot.

omgwtfbyobbq|4 years ago

I think I noticed something similar back in the day with Straight Talk (ATT). Speeds when tethered were much worse than on my phone with most of my modern laptops, but when I tried IE on an old XP install I had I saw significantly faster speeds than my phone/plan were supposed to be capable of.