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Why would a provider forbid tethering? And besides the why, how would they even know you're doing that? If I turn on my phones hotspot, doesn't that look exactl
by f1refly 3y ago
Why would a provider forbid tethering? And besides the why, how would they even know you're doing that? If I turn on my phones hotspot, doesn't that look exactly like my phone is doing something™ requiring a high bandwidth?
- eloisant 3y agoBecause they want to charge you for the expensive "tethering" option. I know, that's fucked up but the US are not very good at forcing consumer-friendliness on their companies. On the "how they detect it", unless you're using a VPN they can look at the traffic and easy distinguish "computer traffic" from regular "phone traffic".
- inemesitaffia 3y agoTTL, traffic use amounts. Domains not available to mobile apps. your phone tells the network and sometimes implements the restrictions itself
- __jonas 3y agoVery annoyingly, the iPhone also has a way for the carrier to somehow disable the mobile hotspot feature of the phone for their sim. On the mobile hotspot settings page it will just show a message with a link to the carriers website instead of the toggle to enable it, I find it really annoying since as you said I don't understand how there would be a difference in what the usage would look like to the carrier and it feels like Apple is imposing a restriction just for the benefit of the carrier that makes the phone less usable.
- sneak 3y agoThis is Apple's fault. Android phones do not have this problem.
- inemesitaffia 3y agoAndroid does
- SkyPuncher 3y agoAndroid phones have the exact same issue. For years I had to use an ADB work around to get tethering.
- herbst 3y agoNot sure if android has that but I never heard of anything like that here in Europe.