Name: DefaultTTL Is the ttl on the laptop supposed to be set to 65? Thanks Jay. I had tried to tell him, in one of my known and attested failures at diplomacy, to just shut up.). Those Asus routers should do it, I currently have the Alcatel Linkzone, but Im capped at 6Gb monthly. And depending on the antenna setup of the phone you might not even be able to get full bandwidth. 5) Tether It. Yall are doing it extremely off note. Am I correct in assuming you dont actually needs VPN on your setup?? Did one more search and found this post. On any merlin firmware asus router, make sure telnet/shh enabled The same just change the number to 128, not that it matters the internet does not care so long as your TTL is above 32, does your phone have issues using the internet over wifi? When I get it working, Ill report back here. but im at 12 GB of data being shown used on my phone data and 3 gb of hotspot, but if i go into data usage it shows 12 GB of hotspot been used. Always smart to test other options. Pay the $10 a month and get the unlimited tether for that device, if you use any of those apps your gonna be limited to 2Mbps. Like when you are on a call does it still say lte in the corner ever?? PDANet hides tethering by changing the user agent of every HTTP request passed through, and also blocking OS-specific ports and features (Windows Update, Mac App Store, etc). Did not work for me Motorola z3 android 8.0 tethered to linux mint/ubuntu. Its because the 28.3 is still on the phone so when it ignores 28.4 it finds 28.3. But I finally got it correctly installed (no idea how) and my USB tether is giving me full high speed data. The first thing I noticed after lucubrating through the terms and conditions was the tethering. I tried both the share connection under the status of pdanet adapter, and trying to bridge the connection between the pdanet adapter, and the ethernet adapter. 1gb of tether? Im from Asia in my country a carrier offers an unlimited plan (5 days of browsing time: Speed limit 512Kbps will be applied after first 4GB and: 64Kbps after 10GB). Backblaze is the solution I use and recommend. Once again you MUST change the apn AND you have to make sure that your traffic is actually being routed through the VPN, in my experience on both android and iOS hotspot traffic bypass your phones VPN, and VPN on the router/computer traveling through the phone can be tracked if the phone isnt the one using the VPN, to make it force traffic through the VPN I had to use the for data option in the tether me app on iOS. I was going to give up, but it occurred to me that while PdaNet+ was connecting via wifi, the usb connection was failing, and this is whats necessary to hide the tether. Anathema? Would any of the above suggestions work for using a T-mobile sim card on their One plan, and plugging that into a MOFI4500 sim4 router (band 12)? This helped clear up weird Internet Connection Sharing issues with my attached router. Receive the freshest Android & development news right in your inbox! Tmob says thank you (normal) Still nothing, I think my phone has other ways of doing things. Thank you for the info. I use PDAnet. I never get much more then 30Mb/s myself because im on metropcs. I had too much white noise with my gain anything over 20 way back when I was testing out the r7000 myself. Honestly though since you have a nexus device, i would recommend rooting and useing teather router(playstore) sonce that would allow teather bypassing on any device, but you have to be comfortable with doing so, its a better long-term solution though. Good thought Mildew. At least for me. it appears looking at the apple bundle source there are not multiple versions (for specific model phones) of each bundle version. It does state that the carrier may have a different figure than the one showing on my device, so maybe it IS hidden? I wish it worked for me..Ive tried everything, even installing a VPN Hide My IP and nothing seems to bypass T-Mobiles data throttling. Any suggestions ? Lo and behold, there was no change on the hotspot data usage of my account, so Im good to go. Just open up a administrator command prompt and paste in netsh int ipv4 set glob defaultcurhoplimit=65(without the quotation marks) and restart the computer, this is functionally equivalent to his instructions since all it does is add a registry enrty into the same place you would if done manually. This is an option though. Putting anything other than a bundle with the metro name is going to just use memory but never even be paid attention to by the system unless later on you get a tmobile sim. Thank you Michelle! I did pull it and it is in nano. I have done NO MODS AT ALL to phone. You all have made a big difference in my life. Or whatever its called it also changes the user agent string. The same amount of data is being transferred over internet to whatever VPN server you are using The only difference is Tmobile cant read the traffic in the data stream because its encrypted. Im close but no cigar on this. Update I went back to the PdaNet+ method because the problem was that it was not connecting via USB. I to am a usier of Pdanet with T-Mobile, with my Samsung Galaxy s7. If for some odd reason iBackup doesnt give you access (I dont think you need the paid version anymore to get to the carrier bundle), because apple hid it in 10.x.x (highly doubt due to it already being patched) then not all is lost. I cant locate carrier.plist in the program. #!/bin/sh Enable USB Debugging on your phone/tablet. Is it sneaky? Im trying to understand what youre doing, but I think me/we need a little more info. Correct. Jay Im in Madison county Georgia, thats all boonies for acres and acres, sounds like congestion to me and once again you are forgetting that new phones run multiple connections so your 30, or whatever you said, would be much higher with the right set up. at android.content.ContentProvider$Transport.call(ContentProvider.java:4 Just to clarify, are you USB tethered to the router? Doesnt matter if you use fast.xxxx.com or alpha/beta. Dont even get me started on the great uses of local Dns and proxies that can keep you from having to even send out as much data in the first place. That is why we more frequently use it as a hotspot. However I just got the Unlocked Galaxy Note 8.. Did you run the Vpn on the phone?? If anyone did, please post any links that might be useful. So far 350GB used with a week to go on my metropcs plan and still just regular deprioritized speed but still high enough for me to do everything. Try using your phone data over a hotspot to see if the usage is counted towards your limit. Im gone. WiFi tethering was broke with Kitkat and was never fixed. So I feel that if you set it to 67 then you could use it indirectly with your rig like you started trying to do. I know in fl it does it to sites for ps but not XBOX as I have a buddy I built a systEm to get him internet across his 8 acre lot. EasyTether will hide it. Not theory Been doing this for many years. When I turn off the VPN, data stops flowing through tether. Oct 31, 2010 126 12. Ive never had it not work until reset. How they detect that someone is tethering a device isn't something that network providers often want to talk about, for the obvious reason that the more consumers know about how this is being detected, the easier it is for them to find ways to hide the fact that they're doing it, and avoid the associated extra charges (1).However there are certain known techniques that will give away the fact . Michelle, So then is your ASUS router set up as some sort of bridge mode so that it can connect to your WiFi hotspot, and then forward that wifi signal to all wireless connected and wireless devices to the ASUS router? Im confused. If I enter adb shell lower case it says error: device not found null no idea why its not working. For those of you using USB Tether to Windows 7 computer, I recommend updating the Network Adapter to the latest version. you dont need a router you just need a phone with unlimited data and use your phone as a hotspot to power up your laptop. You might already know this, just wanted to make it easy. As far as side loading the app for you I would google it. Pash thats because you are going through fast, alpha, or beta channel instead of the pcweb channel. Hi anyone who can help. 3. Will report back. How about sharing the connection through a RaspberyPi-type of device, if youre concerned about energy consumption? Like XBOX thats why sometimes folks will see their hotspot data go up as well as the regular data. And once another device can access the web, your phone becomes a mobile hotspot or WiFi hotspot. @onix . Im not sure VPN will work but maybe this is better than the one I been using as I have to pay? The TTL edit was the key that unleashed my digital boat from the docks of hotspot bay. Also fix a few crashes from previous releases. iptables -t mangle -I POSTROUTING -o `nvram get wan0_ifname` -j TTL ttl-set 69 http://www.dslreports.com/faq/17883, My DSL Speed Test went from incredibly poor to respectable scores. I cant figure out which settings youre referring to with PDAnet, there arent any to change regarding mobile/desktop traffic, Also, Im on Tmobile ONE plan, which is pretty much unlimited (full 4G speed up to 32GB of data used, then traffic prioritization after 32GB), so Im not sure what the 8gig limit you speak of is. Make a bundle with the exact name and everything as the one you have now and it SHOULD over retire it. Still using same server and script as when I wrote. I reset the router before I did the above. In order to take advantage of the PDANet/other workarounds, *what is the least expensive plan I can sign up for*? Then double click it and add value 65 in decimal, (thx Jay) I have a Windows machine and Metro PCS is my phone service provider (t-mobile PAYG). On metropcs with a good signal 3-4 bars 4g phoneI usually get 20-30Mbs. Required fields are marked *. Changed TTL to 65 and confirmed change. Attempting a DD-WRT upgrade was entirely too complicated. I have window7. Did somebody say Farmer?.odt. OnePlus 7T Pro (Regular & McLaren) ROMs & Dev. If you only use a few extra GB, you shouldnt raise any red flags. I watch Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBOGO, etc. Suggestions? Thank you, My nexus 5x 6.01 was rooted and have tether router apk. Step 7 at above link is no longer possible with the patch apple did a long time ago. Just my experience. PDANet worked really well when tethered to our desktop. I wrote except instead of accept. that happened after the last update. Used PDANet on data rollover day and TMO registered 7GB of hotspot used already. Here is my firewall commands. The TTLstands for time to live it is a counter on the data you send for its maximum hop count, or the number of devices it can travel through, for ever device it goes down by one, windows has a default TTL of 128, while Android has one of 64, if you change the TTL for windows to 65 when it gets to the phone the TTL will go down by one makeing it equal 64 the same as the phone. nknown Source:9) -o get_wanface portion of the code. 2 things combined to make it work for me. I swear, I tried to help you guys but you guys just do t get how your methods are screwing the network and even more so your selfs. It is faster, more stable and it works on ALL Android phones! Even if the phone was unlocked, the carrier bundle settings preloaded into iOS still activate when that carriers SIM is inserted. While youre doing that I will touch base on the question that was asked about speed being cut in half. I was on ting . Im really guessing on the numbers because its been a minute and all of my phones say 100.x.x now so I dont risk a higher version over writing it. Ha. I lied it is wanface. JavaScript is disabled. Lol. You get into it and youll be surprised the addiction and builds youll come up with. I want the regular desktop version of all sites to show up. Note: If you find PdaNet isn . The phone speed is always above 50+Mbps. [b]Virtual Wireless Access Point[/b] The only indication from the phone itself was it now asking to update new carrier settings, however it still said MetroPCS 28.3. Thanks. If it works it works, I just like to make sure all knowledge is available to the people reading. ission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS, java.lang.SecurityException: Permission denial: writing to settings requires:and Any new ideas. Type: REG_DWORD You have freed my from my tether and now I am running free! Try just editing the ttl, its fine if your just trying to connect a laptop, if you want to use a tablet just download a proxy app(icecoldpapps make the one i use) and set up a manual proxy on your tablet, Does your router support the proper telnet commands by default? Is there any mod to get this speed on desktop after throttled? The main issue I see people having is the lack of apn editing. T-Mobile CEO John Legere has announced his intention to go after Network Abusers who are using as much as 2 TB of data and are circumventing T-Mobiles throttling and data caps. Its what I got working first. In another post Mildew you mention how Xbox URLs get flagged. Further, I might add, it is by means the same, that said advice is now being forwarded to a retired U.S. State Department official (we call him the Ambassador), now residing in Germany. Good to see some foot work. I did a manual update of the driver. With iOS if you can get it jailbroken you are set. Im on Straight Talk using Verizon network. Let me know how it all goes for you until I can put in some leg work myself. looking at the apple source for bundles, 28.3 is latest for metro. Thanks for this blog post and commenters. If you are just going to use your PC then you can generally have this running in ~15 to 30 minutes. \SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters. The corrected errors meant my VPN speed was nearly as fast as no VPN. Activiated VPN in iOS. I really want to limit my learning curve here, as in, Im not ready to study up on Linux. I have a rt-n56u and Ive tried to enter net.ipv4.ip_default_ttl = 65 via telnet, but Ive been unable to see the expected results. Hope this bit of info helps. Nano is not a language, but I get what you mean. The hotspot phone is rooted pixel 3a and it works great. No, seriously though, I was just overwhelmed by the ease and simplicity of editing that registry key. Im not sure if there are any tools available anymore to do it. As far as iBackup there are still some cool things you can do with it, as of 9.x.x (sure it still works on present updates), you can edit your touch pop ups use the silent switch for things like rotation lock and a few other decent tweaks I believe you can edit font packages as well as many other things, some of which are still being discovered so keep an open mind on the possibilities. the heavy users are deprioritized which works great. From my experience, if you make mod changes AFTER u reach your limit, the changes wont take effect till next billing cycle. As far as the update it will Be asking you to update from now on, sometimes twice in a row, and if you ever do let it update by mistake, or whatever, you will have to redo your work. Jailbroken device it will read it as corrupted and discard it. The problem is that tethering makes you use more data. ive tried apple ipcu and ibackupbot. Wouldnt torrents get flagged also? Streaming mostly? Im not afraid of it, I just dont have a good handle on it. I just use the ASUS router as it comes from the factory, nothing changed on it. And are you connecting to your DD-WRT router via USB cable (tethered) or are you using a wireless connection to your mobile phone (hotspot)? plugged in the phone. Dave, I just downloaded EasyTether last night but havent tried it yet. Connect your phone to your computer via USB cable. Once you find it we can destroy it. Well show you three ways to get what you paid for while using mobile data on your PC. It takes more though on caged is because there are so little options. Not a roadblock just a detour for our means of completion. Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe). Im not sure if deleting the preferences.plist file would revert to the unknown bundle. I use about 48-60 GB a month and my speeds never seem to throttle, so Im not sure where the info is coming from. Wait running the command requires a rooted phone? Streaming in 1080p on Netflix takes up 4.7GB/hour. Hit my 8G limit yesterday. o PIA VPN Connect your PC to your phone over USB. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Verified boot enable in Smart phone flash tool, [ROM][13.0][OnePlus 7T Pro][OFFICIAL] crDroid v9.X [20230417]. I installed FoxFi and seemed working but after a while, they slowed it again. But I will if it means I dont lose half my bandwidth. been doing the ttl trick for a few months and never got close to my 8GB limit, and i run 4 PCs off my hotspot. Jay you are a true god of the digital world, THANK YOU! And I tried changing the TTL in the Registry Editor, in both Hex and decimal. Thats fair to me.people under 35GB usage get full speed and heavy 35GB + users get lower priority but still not a real throttle and still totally useable high speed as far as Im concerned. I shall now convey to him, in mind-boggling, lickety-split fashion (sorry; Im a metrics freak, yknow), my devoted gratitude for the authors advice. I use Linux mint 18 and nothing works in hernando county Florida on the Gulf. I already used up my 1 gig for this month and its only 5 hrs. Period. Furthermore, the article talks about using a VPN to avoid video throttling. My 5s with 144db sig gets 90 on band 2 even on a bad day. A big Thank You! My question is, is there anyway I can stop them cutting it off all together? Cant figure out how to edit in mobile. I cant remember if you were using a outer or router but as long as you could set it up on the router/puter that is an option of resort. Im confused on what I missed. Care to elaborate ? Dee, I have read all the posts, but it wasnt clear if using the router with that method would hide the tethering usage. Also, nothing has to be done with the phone first? I torrent 24/7 no flags on results p2p its the sever adress that they flag on XB anything through that gets a yellow flag and counts toward hot spot but will still get access even after it hits cap. I had to downgrade the firmware from ASUS, and then I was able to install DD-WRT. If the file is still there just delete it OR edit the apn and it will make it invalid and it cant use it. Ive been reading the news and how theyre planning on dropping Internet privacy laws, so now would certainly be a good time to get started with that. I had attempted using TTL but still had issues with the WiFi hotspot being throttled. [/code]. In about 20% of areas tmobile/metro is already set up for 300+ lte. In this next example TTL stands for whatever your native (unknown to me) ttl is, INC equals increase, And = sets/changes the value to whatever number follows after it. PdaNet is available in Cydia Store via modmyi repo. I am already subscribed to ExpressVPN, for example. It would be nice to edit a bundle myself, yet until thats realized these 3 answers might help us in the meantime. You will get a lil over half a second of lag. As for pda net, from my testing years back, it does three things. I get a text from MetroPCS the minute I get near or go over 35GB telling me I will be deprioritized or whatever. 180 GB used last month. And if you wanted to be real sure they cant tell you teathing then find a spare laptop buyusb Ethernet adapter and modify the UA strings so they appear to come from the phone, you just need to append them at the back with some basic cellphone identifers and then set ip the box as a proxy server seting tthe ttl as data passes through. Thats a good thing. As far as Congestion goes and speed I can only say this I have a sever set up in my 94 caprice so I can stream music, movies, tv, and my XBone on the road. This feature was previously free and only required activation with the My T-Mobile account settings. ok will try and find ways to make adb shell commands work I think I need to boot into twrp then adb Ive only done fastboot commands in bootloader, will research it. Im sure Im being deprioritized at times, but lets just say its not enough to matter, right? Are those the actual speeds on the phone and are you using a true minimal speed tester, ookala or a p2p speed test from one setup to another on the same tower?? There are many pros to running a server setup as well. Other connection issues crop up with Chromecast. I know iPhones are still ipeth anyone remember the android driver?? Okay. Honestly I think if youre going to do it go all the way or dont even bother Because otherwise its just a hassle. 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