Before I say anything else I would like to give a huge thanks to all of the developers and people that assist in the process of making these phones above par in every imaginable way. I could not have achieved this without you.
First things first, I am not entirely sure what THE contributing factor has been that has allowed me to do this. I am brand new to flashing, I finally took the plunge last Friday, but what I do know is that before I flashed my phone it was impossible for me to connect to Xbox Live via my Touch Pro. Through the troubleshooting on my Xbox I would always make it to 'internet' but always failed when trying to connect to Xbox Live.
I am going to share my settings with you so you can see how I accomplished this. For those who are asking, no I do not have an internet account set up at home. For now it is a financial decision that is beyond mine and my wife's means so figuring this out has had huge dividends for us. One more thing, I would not advise this if you do not have an unlimited data plan.
Okay, last friday I flashed my phone to NFSFAN's latest ROM and the Telus Radio. I adjusted my TCP settings via Advanced Config. to the max setting in it which is 98304. Though I know there are ways to make the wifi be used as a hotspot, I simply transferred a program I have been using for sometime over to the new ROM after flashing, it is Walking Hotspot. I enabled this program on my phone and connected to the network my phone was sending out via a wireless adapter for my Xbox 360. After doing that I logged into my account on my Xbox and boom.... Xbox Live.
My theory is that it lies in the ROM that was flashed. I tested all of the radios that are available to be flashed for CDMA and had the same results for all, so it does not seem to solely rest on the Telus. Even though after substantial speed testing, the Telus, for my phone understanding each phone has different results, had the highest download speeds. Average speeds ranged from 1.09 Mbps at one bar of reception to 3.5 Mbps at four bars of reception.
I have played multiplayer for hours, downloaded megabytes of DLC content, and watched TV shows and movies over Netflix without it over heating the wifi within my phone. It has been an amazing experience.
I wanted to post this because a few months ago I searched tirelessly to find a solution to fix the non-connection issue I was having. Hopefully, if someone is in the same boat this can be of some help to them.
I've wanted to try this but i find it hard to believe that the internet is fast enough to support playing over Xbox live.
Never know tho i could be wrong
I thought the same thing until I tried it. I promise you, all of the information I shared on here is legitimate.
Don't be surprised if you end up seeing data charges on your bill. Stealth tethering or not w/o a Phone as a modem plan they know that you are not browsing the web on your device. Just lettin you know. I'm banned from XBL any way lol.
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I've been doing this since my 8525 and kaiser. I do mine somewhat different though. I use internet sharing on my laptop from my phone, then hook up my 360 to my laptop and bridge the connection. Works great, been doing it for like 3 years now and no overage charge for my data, still at 9.99 a month.
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I use internet sharing on my laptop from my phone,
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That is a 'teathering'
they can detect that.
however the wifirouter is what he is explaining.
fnakfhe said:
That is a 'teathering'
they can detect that.
however the wifirouter is what he is explaining.
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If there was a detection issue, I'm sure I would be paying thousands of dollars for the 13mil of kilobytes I processed through this past month. Thankfully it is not.
Yeah I have been doing this with my free version of WMWifirouter since my mogul. I am on Sprint, and the speeds are fast enough. So WMWifiRouter + Xbox wifi adapter=Xbox live. Didn't realize this was not possible on all. Huh, who knew?
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do still have the free wifirouter file handy?
i had it for my mogul as well but... that was dropped in soup... with all my wm file cabs...
i tried searching for it again with no luck...
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I want to say bye, bye to TW internet, but don't know the best way to make My Razr 4G LTE internet to all PC's,Ps3 and my Xbox 360.
I put it here becouse the Razr forms are small vs this one and Is more about LTE any way.
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Not really
It's not really the solution you wanted, but assuming you are not trying to tether the world to your cell phone (which should then double nicely as a heater), why not just get a mobile hotspot and be done with it.
I hate my TWC wires (2 cables spanning 2 neighbors yards) and have pulled twice the speed on my Rezound than I am getting from TWC (although not at home, regrettably). I say this because I understand your frustration first hand; I just disagree with your proposed resolution.
looked into this a bit, my conclusion was that:
1) unless you have a fairly small network (ie just yourself), you're going to need to go the route of the mobile hotspot.
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2) the mobile hotspot hardware currently available isn't reliable enough to trust as a dedicated home internet solution.
Don't be fooled I use mine for everything and I pay for unlimited mobile hotspot. Just can't use everything at onces.
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I wouldnt recommend using your phone or any wireless solution for gaming, the ping is too high.
Kane5581 said:
I wouldnt recommend using your phone or any wireless solution for gaming, the ping is too high.
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I get only maybe 20-30ms higher on my phone tether vs my FiOS.
If you are dead set on doing this, I would use your PC/Laptop as a network bridge. You should be able to connect the LAN cable to your PC and then into where your modem would plug into your router. But, you would have to setup your router first, or connect it via USB to setup since you wouldn't be able to use the provider software or the IP to connect in through that port. Just an idea, but like others said, reliability could probably be zero.
Let me tell you the "reliability" of my TW cable internet right now: It gos form 7-10DL to 3 and then even to under 1, 2-4 times A DAY. It go's out at times too, so I can't see it geting more bad then that.
P.S I am "dead set" on having home internet that has good up time and able to play 1080p video if needed.
Time Warner doesn't offer a package higher than 10mbps? Why not just get Fios or something? Have you even called TW? I had an issue like this a few years back (With a provider in GA I can't remember the name) where I wasn't getting the 25mbps I was paying for. They came out and tested my modem and it was dying. They replaced it, and it worked from then on out. It was even a modem I paid for myself, they gave me a new one and took the old one free of charge.
Koush posted that Tether is in the Android Market now.
I pay for 15DL and 1UL, But am only geting 6-10DL and .5UL. I think it's BS, but I can't poof that to them. I Have used all kinds of speed test and they all never hit more than 11-12DL and 1UL. LTE has been about the same on DL at home after the outges and DEC the 25th. ( It was geting 10-15DL and now its 4-10DL and 5-6UL.)
Now I am a bit mad at the big red, becuase on AT&T my speeds have been going up and Up and up. (I think AT&T Is about toput up LTE here soon)
LTE is extremelt cool, and will only get better. But as of right now, I wouldn't call it reliable enough to handle an entire house full of bandwidth-hungry devices.
My At&T U-Verse internet advertises up to 25mBps. This, to the average user, probably sounds like more than one would ever need. But what they don't tell you is that each TV (when its box is on) takes up to 6mBps of that bandwidth all by itself. So if you've got 2 HDTVs running in the house, and somebody gaming online, suddenly that internet speed ain't lookin' all that cutting-edge.
According to what I've gleaned from the small amount of research I've done, you need a solid 10mBps to stream 1080p HD content without bottlenecking. The top AT&T U-verse package I have can do it all day long, while also handling whatever else may be using bandwidth. I would worry about any plan below the top one though. Maybe if you only have one HDTV connection in the house.
I tried tethering off my phone when temp-root v2 came out, and I was impressed with the results. But I was also realistic about it. My tether speed tests came in at roughly 6-7mBps downloaded. Not bad in a pinch, but certainly nowhere near good enough to power a whole house. And certainly not good enough to stream HD.
I don't think the idea of a phone providing internet for the home far off, but we just aren't there yet. I'm thinking in 5-10 years.
If you want to use your phone as your home internet service, pm me. I've been using mine for my home for the last 4 years, cuz I don't have dsl. It's awesome, and I can help you get it up and running. I've averaged 40-50gb per month for the past 3 years. PM me.
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I used 30Gb and I saw my speed in my home go down, but at work it would be fast as ever with 5 bars. My billing just started to day and my DL is now in the 20+ vs 5-7 DL before. I think I got my speeds lowered for useing 30gb. Any way TW sucks even more with that.
Seems to me that Splashtop might be a big drain on data plan. Our only high speed internet is a Verizon 4g Mifi. We had one with 10g data plan which we just got a few months ago. Last month we went through 90% of that in like10 days. We figured someone had hacked into our network, because our history on our old sprint air card only showed an average of like 8g/month. A few days ago we decided to make some other changes, dropped the hot spot on husbands Droid and bought a second Mifi with 10g/month plan. But we just went thought over 3g on that Mifi in just a few days. The only thing I can think of is that I was using Splashtop Remote to run my Mac from the couch... we were not streaming any video or downloading big system updates or anything along those lines that might account for the big drain....
What did you expect. Just about any remote desktop app is going to use up bandwidth.
To clarify what the guy above said.
Splashtop is streaming essentially a 720p video from your computer to your tablet (along with keyboard/mouse input and audio). If you are doing that over your 3g/4g thats a lot of data. Typical compressed 720p video is 300 to 500 mb per half hour. So for every hour you use splashtop you are going to use probably between .5gb and a 1gb depending on how well they compress it. At least in the HD versions. If you are using a standard edition splashtop at a low framerate (if you can even set that, i don't remember) then you could save a lot of data. Splashtop is really meant to be used on wifi networks rather than over the internet, but they give you the option to do internet because some people have great uncapped internet.
Hope this helps clear this up.
Thanks for the info jacobrv.. I might be missing something here. Sorry to be so clueless about this. But, I am doing this at home, connected to our router. The router gets the internet service from the Mifi...(ACtually, what I have is one router connected to the Mifi, and a second router downstairs connected to the Ethernet and setup as an access point.)_ In theory should Spashtop not be using any Bandwidth and basically just be using the LAN network...
Well, if both devices (computer and tablet) are on the local network then it "should" use that and not go out to the internet. One thing I would try is to remove your Google account from splashtop, if you put it in, and see if they still find each other. They use your Google account to match up your devices over the internet, so without it, it should only look at the local network. If that doesn't help, or if you never put in your Google info in the first place, then I don't know.
That's pretty much all I've got. I mean, another thing to try would be to turn off all internet devices (mifi's/modems/etc) and try then. If they can no longer see each other, then obviously they were using the internet. But then the question becomes, why can't they see each other on the local network?
Hello all, I believe this is the first time I am posting here but I nee help...
Heres a little background, I am on an unlimited plan on the Droid Razr. I am staying with my sister ATM, as I am in the process of buying a house, the paperwork goes through tomorrow then I just have to wait 30 days for the loan to go through... Anyway, the only internet I can get here is AT&T uverse which is complete garbage down here... So I have been using SVTP mobile hotspot. It has worked perfectly. However I think verizon has grown to hating me... I use to have no problems with my phone, then when I moved here at the beginning of February and started using a mobile hotspot on my unlimited things started getting bad. The first half of February was fine, till I hit about 50GB of usage.... My internet started cutting out like crazy and dropping me at randoms times and I would have to reboot. February I ended up with 91GB used. My phone has been steadily getting worse and worse connection wise with the drops. The thing Is when this would happen I would still have internet, just nothing would respond...
Now, the DNS doesnt respond AT ALL with anything but google.com. It is ridiculous. When my tether is up and I try to connect my xbox, it says that my DNS server is not receiving the XBOX live server names... Hardly anything works with it now. If I try to go to websites, it just sits there and then times out. Netflix, youtube, hulu, and spotify all dont work. They tell me I have no internet connection, yet when I run a speed tests it tests fine. This is getting annoying.
When I took my phone to verizon she told me to leave it there and she will call tech support for me... Reluctantly I left it there. Turns out her solution was to install Jellybean for me. How kind.... Now not only does my DNS not work, ALL HOTSPOT APPS ARE BLOCKED.....
So what do I do? All I need is working internet and a working mobile hotspot. If I root on JB will they work again? I know If I root I can at least change my DNS to googleDNS right? I just need help...
orangepinkman said:
Hello all, I believe this is the first time I am posting here but I nee help...
Heres a little background, I am on an unlimited plan on the Droid Razr. I am staying with my sister ATM, as I am in the process of buying a house, the paperwork goes through tomorrow then I just have to wait 30 days for the loan to go through... Anyway, the only internet I can get here is AT&T uverse which is complete garbage down here... So I have been using SVTP mobile hotspot. It has worked perfectly. However I think verizon has grown to hating me... I use to have no problems with my phone, then when I moved here at the beginning of February and started using a mobile hotspot on my unlimited things started getting bad. The first half of February was fine, till I hit about 50GB of usage.... My internet started cutting out like crazy and dropping me at randoms times and I would have to reboot. February I ended up with 91GB used. My phone has been steadily getting worse and worse connection wise with the drops. The thing Is when this would happen I would still have internet, just nothing would respond...
Now, the DNS doesnt respond AT ALL with anything but google.com. It is ridiculous. When my tether is up and I try to connect my xbox, it says that my DNS server is not receiving the XBOX live server names... Hardly anything works with it now. If I try to go to websites, it just sits there and then times out. Netflix, youtube, hulu, and spotify all dont work. They tell me I have no internet connection, yet when I run a speed tests it tests fine. This is getting annoying.
When I took my phone to verizon she told me to leave it there and she will call tech support for me... Reluctantly I left it there. Turns out her solution was to install Jellybean for me. How kind.... Now not only does my DNS not work, ALL HOTSPOT APPS ARE BLOCKED.....
So what do I do? All I need is working internet and a working mobile hotspot. If I root on JB will they work again? I know If I root I can at least change my DNS to googleDNS right? I just need help...
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i don't know much about hotspot, but rooting your phone will open several doors and oportunities, maybe you can find a solution...
I have a problem guys. I have had the Rom Xtrestolite 1.3.5a on my G900T with baseband BNG4. I have been able to tether my phone for over a year with no restrictions and never throttled on my unlimited plan with 5gb hotspot. I used to always check and my hotspot allotment never used to go up as my rooted phone on this rom had the tethering unblocked. However just this week I got a message that said I have reached 85% of my hotspot limit and that it will be slowed to 128kbps but that my phone will continue at high speed till beginning of my next cycle. I checked my usage and now my tethering plan had used up 7/7gb (I guess my hotspot plan had increased to 7gb over the course of the year, never knew since I had always used over 20gb of tethering unrestricted).
So now I am puzzled, did tmobile find a way to meter my tethering again even though I am on a rooted phone on a rom that had unrestricted tethering? Note that I still can tether unlimited but they have slowed it to 128kpbs... the funny thing is I can speed test on speedtest.com on my tether and it will show it at 25mpbs...but if I go on some websites its clearly 128kpbs as I tried a speed test html5 and it confirmed that it was 128kpbs...so it seems some websites like speedtest...and youtube still go fast, but most other streaming sites go slow on tether, so it is obviously being throttled. My question is, has tmobile implemented a new way to meter which made my 1 year old rom not be able to keep making unrestrictive? And if so does anyone know which newer rom is unrestricted and completely uses only my phone's internet not Hotspot Data allotment?
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acostaae90 said:
I have a problem guys. I have had the Rom Xtrestolite 1.3.5a on my G900T with baseband BNG4. I have been able to tether my phone for over a year with no restrictions and never throttled on my unlimited plan with 5gb hotspot. I used to always check and my hotspot allotment never used to go up as my rooted phone on this rom had the tethering unblocked. However just this week I got a message that said I have reached 85% of my hotspot limit and that it will be slowed to 128kbps but that my phone will continue at high speed till beginning of my next cycle. I checked my usage and now my tethering plan had used up 7/7gb (I guess my hotspot plan had increased to 7gb over the course of the year, never knew since I had always used over 20gb of tethering unrestricted).
So now I am puzzled, did tmobile find a way to meter my tethering again even though I am on a rooted phone on a rom that had unrestricted tethering? Note that I still can tether unlimited but they have slowed it to 128kpbs... the funny thing is I can speed test on speedtest.com on my tether and it will show it at 25mpbs...but if I go on some websites its clearly 128kpbs as I tried a speed test html5 and it confirmed that it was 128kpbs...so it seems some websites like speedtest...and youtube still go fast, but most other streaming sites go slow on tether, so it is obviously being throttled. My question is, has tmobile implemented a new way to meter which made my 1 year old rom not be able to keep making unrestrictive? And if so does anyone know which newer rom is unrestricted and completely uses only my phone's internet not Hotspot Data allotment?
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The same issue occurred for me beginning last night. I received the same messages. In the past, even if the hopspot limit was reached somehow, traffic originating from a mobile device User Agent would still pass through without hinderance (I.e. I could still use other Android devices, my laptop with the proper UA, and Chromecast). Now, even they are slowed. SpeedTest (by Oogle) does work on all devices, as does Netflix. I'm not sure if there are any other services that are unaffected.
It seems that T-Mobile may be using a new method to discern traffic originating from the original phone versus any peripheral devices, perhaps a form of packet sniffing.
For informational purposes, my primary device for hotspotting is the T-Mobile Note 3 SM-N900T, devices affected by tethering include T-Mobile Note 2 T889, T-Mobile Galaxy S3 T999, and Chromecast
Use a user agent switcher and a vpn and i think your traffic will be hidden enough, I just switched my Tmo S5 to Att so i cant test it anymore tho
for the user agent switcher you can choose android for mobile or Opera for desktop, both always worked for me, gl guys
oh and for the vpn I use PIA and switch to TCP instead of udp, use it on the dekstop you're tethering on not the phone
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Use a user agent switcher and a vpn and i think your traffic will be hidden enough, I just switched my Tmo S5 to Att so i cant test it anymore tho
for the user agent switcher you can choose android for mobile or Opera for desktop, both always worked for me, gl guys
oh and for the vpn I use PIA and switch to TCP instead of udp, use it on the dekstop you're tethering on not the phone
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Is that a free vpn service or would I have to pay? Also I am not too familiar with user agent switcher, is that a plugin on opera in the desktop? What about for like my Xbox etc. I am not sure how Tmobile is metering this data now, anyone have a rom that doesn't touch their tethering limit. It is just weird how speedtest, youtube, and netflix still run at fast LTE even after you pass the tethering limit but othe regular sites or streaming sites will be at 128kpbs . Not sure how tmobile started recording my tethering data on my rooted phone, it used to never use tether data.
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The same issue occurred for me beginning last night. I received the same messages. In the past, even if the hopspot limit was reached somehow, traffic originating from a mobile device User Agent would still pass through without hinderance (I.e. I could still use other Android devices, my laptop with the proper UA, and Chromecast). Now, even they are slowed. SpeedTest (by Oogle) does work on all devices, as does Netflix. I'm not sure if there are any other services that are unaffected.
It seems that T-Mobile may be using a new method to discern traffic originating from the original phone versus any peripheral devices, perhaps a form of packet sniffing.
For informational purposes, my primary device for hotspotting is the T-Mobile Note 3 SM-N900T, devices affected by tethering include T-Mobile Note 2 T889, T-Mobile Galaxy S3 T999, and Chromecast
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What user agent did you use? I am not sure, I just used the native tethering toggle since it was unresticted because of the rom I have, but now it seems to be counting my tether limit again.
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What user agent did you use? I am not sure, I just used the native tethering toggle since it was unresticted because of the rom I have, but now it seems to be counting my tether limit again.
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On PC, I used the User Agents iPad, iPhone, Nexus 5 and 9, Mac OS Safari. These have always had no issue in the past with data/tethering limits. My Android devices had no issues at all in the past. My prior ROMs have all allowed native tethering as well so this is a new change.
I have not found any UA change that has worked on mobile devices or PC. However, on Android, there are some white-listed apps that seem to be not affected:
Facebook
Pandora
Netflix (the initial selection menu is limited in speed, but no limit once video content starts loading)
Digitally Imported Radio
RadioTunes
Perhaps they are more unaffected apps (and I will update them as I find them). In any case, right now this seems to be stemming from a server-side change on T-Mobile's part.
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On PC, I used the User Agents iPad, iPhone, Nexus 5 and 9, Mac OS Safari. These have always had no issue in the past with data/tethering limits. My Android devices had no issues at all in the past. My prior ROMs have all allowed native tethering as well so this is a new change.
I have not found any UA change that has worked on mobile devices or PC. However, on Android, there are some white-listed apps that seem to be not affected:
Facebook
Pandora
Netflix (the initial selection menu is limited in speed, but no limit once video content starts loading)
Digitally Imported Radio
RadioTunes
Perhaps they are more unaffected apps (and I will update them as I find them). In any case, right now this seems to be stemming from a server-side change on T-Mobile's part.
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Yeah, I have found that any music streaming sites that are under their unlimited streaming are not affected. Youtube, Netflix, and those you listed. However if I want to use playbox, moviebox, popcorntime, those are limited down to 128kpbs. Where can I find these user agents for pc/mac?
Yes, T-Mobile found away to slow down hotspot. My unlimited data on phone is fast and un-effected, but everything else is slow that's connected to hotspot. VPN is very limited. YouTube works with VPN, but that's about it for me.
Just like you said above, speedtest shows fast connection, but in reality it's slow. User agents don't work and even other android devices are slowed down.
Update: Solved change APN protocol to IPV6.
guys, so according to this recent article Tmobile is using software to monitor stealth tether users... they will be punished... wtf...
http://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-will-stop-customers-abusing-unlimited-data-1727652180
acostaae90 said:
guys, so according to this recent article Tmobile is using software to monitor stealth tether users... they will be punished... wtf...
http://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-will-stop-customers-abusing-unlimited-data-1727652180
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Maybe I'm missing something, but why on earth would one expect to use video games and stream movies and music at home over their cell service. Is that not what cable service is for? And why do people expect to use the service for free? I don't understand maybe.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but why on earth would one expect to use video games and stream movies and music at home over their cell service. Is that not what cable service is for? And why do people expect to use the service for free? I don't understand maybe.
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To be honest I have always had my cable service. I have 100mbps last place I lived so I hardly would tether. But I do travel a lot and stay for a month or two. Getting a cable or dsl provider for 15-50 days at a time is not really an option...you have to order, get a guy to come out and install or install yourself, then you leave quickly and have to return equipment etc. Also I recently moved from California to Missouri, the apartment I am short leasing does not offer Cable internet, they have only centurylink which sucks at 10mbps and 2mpbs upload. Yeah if you are lucky you get 6 or 7. So last month I chose to tether. I usually never used to use my tether allotment cause I have a rooted phone. I have gone past 20gb on tethering before. But this one time I got throttled for the first time when I hit the 7bg tether limit. Not sure how they are doing this since before it made the tether use the phone internet not the tether limit. They must have come up with a new way to track. Now I am not saying you should use your phone to replace your cable isp. But there are times like mine when you have no options for a month or two and a company should really not do what they are doing unless you obviously doing it for long periods of times throughout the year. They are talking about 2tb of data some users...come on. I have tethered and streamed a lot and never gone more than 50gb. I am in the process of closing on a house so this is why I didn't want to get tied to a centurylink contract for ****ty 10mbps for 12 months...their no contract prices are like 85 a month with the modem/router..come on...why do that when I have my phone that can tether at 30mpbs for just 1-2 months while I get settled in my new house and I can get a cable ISP again.... It is annoying that unlimited data only pertains to the phone....its data you buy it and doesn't matter how you use it. I understand the bandwidth situation, if its someone who is doing it constantly every month okay then...but I never used my tether more than 2 months of the year in total days. So say I didn't tether from January- August (7 free gb each month of tether... thats 56gb of data I didn't use those months) So this month I used 20 gb and got throttled..come on... Its unlimited (which obviously shouldn't be 2tb) but at least the one or two times you do it, shouldn't be a deciding factor.
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They are talking about 2tb of data some users...come on. I have tethered and streamed a lot and never gone more than 50gb. I am in the process of closing on a house so this is why I didn't want to get tied to a centurylink contract for ****ty 10mbps for 12 months...their no contract prices are like 85 a month with the modem/router..come on...why do that when I have my phone that can tether at 30mpbs for just 1-2 months while I get settled in my new house and I can get a cable ISP again.... It is annoying that unlimited data only pertains to the phone....its data you buy it and doesn't matter how you use it. I understand the bandwidth situation, if its someone who is doing it constantly every month okay then...but I never used my tether more than 2 months of the year in total days. So say I didn't tether from January- August (7 free gb each month of tether... thats 56gb of data I didn't use those months) So this month I used 20 gb and got throttled..come on... Its unlimited (which obviously shouldn't be 2tb) but at least the one or two times you do it, shouldn't be a deciding factor.
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I understand there are two sides to every story, but watching TV and playing video games to the tune of gigs of data is beyond my comprehension. The thought has never crossed my mind. Me, I've always done without if there was no public WiFi available. I'm not addicted to gaming so that is a non issue. I guess it comes down to what one see's as being morally the right thing to do.
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I understand there are two sides to every story, but watching TV and playing video games to the tune of gigs of data is beyond my comprehension. The thought has never crossed my mind. Me, I've always done without if there was no public WiFi available. I'm not addicted to gaming so that is a non issue. I guess it comes down to what one see's as being morally the right thing to do.
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I agree with you partially, I am not a big gamer, but I watch Tv and stream movies. Like I said there are certain situations when I cannot have cable or internet so I use my tether, and for them to throttle me despite me having 5 lines with them over 15 months now all those lines don't use more than 5gb despite each being unlimited except mine I use around 15gb on phone. And occassionally when I cannot have home internet where I am I will tether and go over 20gb and then I got throttled now cause they changed their monitoring service..that's b.s I am paying them 5 lines unlimited which aren't even using that much data...
T-mobile claimed they found a way to detect those who was able to circumvent the tethering restrictions and has been monitoring them for a while.
esjames said:
T-mobile claimed they found a way to detect those who was able to circumvent the tethering restrictions and has been monitoring them for a while.
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yeah I wonder how...
acostaae90 said:
yeah I wonder how...
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Well, it is their network. Like any business they know who is doing what on it. I figure they turned a blind eye until it became a problem for them. Like everything else there are a few that ruin things for everyone. There are people that respect nothing or no one.
grncherry said:
Well, it is their network. Like any business they know who is doing what on it. I figure they turned a blind eye until it became a problem for them. Like everything else there are a few that ruin things for everyone. There are people that respect nothing or no one.
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I totally agree if its people tethering over 100gb thats an issue I accept. But like if you are a user who tethers on occasions, like when on vacation or an extended trip like me for example for 20-40 gb tether and then you get throttled that sucks big time...
I really hope I can get some timely help. This site has given me a lot of solutions in the past. The gears of war 5 tech test ends tomorrow and this happened yesterday in the middle of a game...
My s9plus is unlocked for any carrier. Bought it back in January for $150 and it initially was in Verizon. I got with boost and my hotspot always worked using the dun trick when making a new apn. About a month and a half ago, boost forced my phone randomly to connect to a tower that was less efficient. I went from 70mbps down and 10mbps up and 5bar signal to 6mbps down and less than 1 mbps up. My bar strength was at a constant 2/3 and the connection would constantly fluctuate, but I was still able to use the hotspot if I could find a spot in my home the connection would work.
Boost wouldnt correct this issue, and after all the troubleshooting with no solution, I switched to metro a few days ago. No part of me was concerned I would be losing something doing this. I had no clue, but assumed it would be fine.
My connection is 5 bars, lte, speeds are not what I hoped but upload speed is very solid. However, the hotspot will no longer connect my devices to the internet. I only use my xbox one and although it will connect to the hotspot, it will not share the internet. I spent a few hours trying to do several things, including using adb shell to change the dun value to 0. I would appreciate any advice, because where I live has no internet options and I'm freaking out as this was all I had and now its not working despite me doing everything right. I even tried using pdanet and making my computer a hotspot, but a double nat on my xbox isnt enough to let me connect to games, just gives me about 5mbps down and 1 mbps up.
Nowayyy said:
I really hope I can get some timely help. This site has given me a lot of solutions in the past. The gears of war 5 tech test ends tomorrow and this happened yesterday in the middle of a game...
My s9plus is unlocked for any carrier. Bought it back in January for $150 and it initially was in Verizon. I got with boost and my hotspot always worked using the dun trick when making a new apn. About a month and a half ago, boost forced my phone randomly to connect to a tower that was less efficient. I went from 70mbps down and 10mbps up and 5bar signal to 6mbps down and less than 1 mbps up. My bar strength was at a constant 2/3 and the connection would constantly fluctuate, but I was still able to use the hotspot if I could find a spot in my home the connection would work.
Boost wouldnt correct this issue, and after all the troubleshooting with no solution, I switched to metro a few days ago. No part of me was concerned I would be losing something doing this. I had no clue, but assumed it would be fine.
My connection is 5 bars, lte, speeds are not what I hoped but upload speed is very solid. However, the hotspot will no longer connect my devices to the internet. I only use my xbox one and although it will connect to the hotspot, it will not share the internet. I spent a few hours trying to do several things, including using adb shell to change the dun value to 0. I would appreciate any advice, because where I live has no internet options and I'm freaking out as this was all I had and now its not working despite me doing everything right. I even tried using pdanet and making my computer a hotspot, but a double nat on my xbox isnt enough to let me connect to games, just gives me about 5mbps down and 1 mbps up.
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I would contact your provider and ask to make sure that your phone is compatable with all of the services they have.
Because it is a Verizon phone originally (and even though network unlocked) it may not be able to connect to Metro's systems if it is using verizon's configuration for hotspot. If customer service confirms that a BYOD can use hotspot features, your phone is compatable, your line is properly configured for (and is actually supposed to have) hotspot data access then perhaps try flashing the firmware for MetroPCS and see if that helps. I know that my sprint phone had some stuff on it that was configured for Sprint so it would have never worked even after network unlocking and using a different provider. Flashing the phone with T-Mobile firmware solved that problem...
scottusa2008 said:
I would contact your provider and ask to make sure that your phone is compatable with all of the services they have.
Because it is a Verizon phone originally (and even though network unlocked) it may not be able to connect to Metro's systems if it is using verizon's configuration for hotspot. If customer service confirms that a BYOD can use hotspot features, your phone is compatable, your line is properly configured for (and is actually supposed to have) hotspot data access then perhaps try flashing the firmware for MetroPCS and see if that helps. I know that my sprint phone had some stuff on it that was configured for Sprint so it would have never worked even after network unlocking and using a different provider. Flashing the phone with T-Mobile firmware solved that problem...
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I should clarify that I did have access, I just hit the data cap. None of the steps I used helped me to use my hotspot after the data limit for metro
Nowayyy said:
I should clarify that I did have access, I just hit the data cap. None of the steps I used helped me to use my hotspot after the data limit for metro
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So you hit a hotspot data cap with MetroPCS and you want to bypass/circumvent that so you can continue to use the hotspot?
If the above is correct then you essentially won't get any help here because of what your asking to do..
Whether or not anyone agrees/disagrees with the data cap you paid for a service that gives you a set amount of gigabytes for hotspot use. Attempting to bypass/circumvent that data cap so you can use more then what was included in the service can be construed as theft.
Either purchase additional buckets of data for use, wait until the data cap resets or find a better provider that offers you a larger (or unlimited) amount of data for use with hotspot functionality.
scottusa2008 said:
So you hit a hotspot data cap with MetroPCS and you want to bypass/circumvent that so you can continue to use the hotspot?
If the above is correct then you essentially won't get any help here because of what your asking to do..
Whether or not anyone agrees/disagrees with the data cap you paid for a service that gives you a set amount of gigabytes for hotspot use. Attempting to bypass/circumvent that data cap so you can use more then what was included in the service can be construed as theft.
Either purchase additional buckets of data for use, wait until the data cap resets or find a better provider that offers you a larger (or unlimited) amount of data for use with hotspot functionality.
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I could post atleast 10 other threads on xda specifically showing people how to do what I'm asking, but I'm not really asking for your permission my friend, just anyone's advice if they know why I was never affected on boost when using dun in my apn, but dun and adb shell editing didnt work with metro, and what I could do about it.
Nowayyy said:
I could post atleast 10 other threads on xda specifically showing people how to do what I'm asking, but I'm not really asking for your permission my friend, just anyone's advice if they know why I was never affected on boost when using dun in my apn, but dun and adb shell editing didnt work with metro, and what I could do about it.
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While it maybe true other threads on the subject, that doesn't mean they (or you) are in the right either. I was just stating a fact that what your trying to do can be construed as theft.
Within regards to why you essentially won't get much help here because of what your trying to do, I should have been more clear on the meaning behind that. Essentially the problem is how the provider detects and/or handles hotspot data. In this case it is obvious that MetroPCS has a different method for handling and/or detecting hotspot data use then Boost Mobile. I am not sure if anyone here would have the technical insight on what one does over the other as far as hotspot data... Granted it is always a possibility someone does, but I haven't seen many posts that indicate discussions go into those kinds of discussions.
I am poking around on the internet to see if I can find something that gives more technical details on how MetroPCS and Boost deal with hotspot data. Given that I currently have a severe thunderstorm in my area I don't know how much I can get accomplished before the power goes out (it's a pretty nasty storm).