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Android is adding a new Wi-Fi hotspot option that maximizes speed and compatibility
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If only my cell carrier (Verizon) didn't paywall mobile tethering
If you use Lineage, a fork of Lineage (iode, /e/), Calyx (out of commission), Graphene, or plain root and set the TTL of hotspot packets to 65 you can bypass the limit
They really don't like that though. Like close your account immediately don't like. Only reason I still have mine is because I had no issues previously and I fained Ignorance while calling them.
Ive been doing it for years with no issue. π€·
Really? If I can ask, how much data do you usually use?
Anywhere between 20 to 50 gigs a month depending on how out and about i am
Ah yeah I used like 500 lol.
I dont even use that much with my homelab, how tf are you doing that? π
Streaming 4k uses an ungodly amount of data.
my podcast app alone does 300GB/mo with just half a hundred of YouTube channels. one of my homelabs will soon cross half a petabyte cumulative. what tf are you doing with your homelab?
How the fuck do you get 300gb of podcasts? If I ran podcasts 24/7 for a month I doubt I'd even hit 50gb
The first one I'd listen to today at 3x is 2:09:44 and weighs 667MB since it's a FullHD video, so I can burn through them at around 1GB/hour. Half of the episodes are gonna be audio-only and weigh just a fraction of that, but then I'll also delete easily half of what gets preloaded without listening, so here we are.
Feigned is such an uncommon word I'm not surprised to see it spelt like that. I'm all for fixing English spelling, it really is a mess of broken rules
I knew I was spelling it wrong I just couldn't figure out how lmao.
You can EASILY get around that...buy an unlocked phone off swappa and the hotspot works perfectly on Verizon. I've been doing this for years
Hmm interesting! My Samsung S24 is factory unlocked but when I try to activate the mobile tethering feature it says "Please wait while verifying" and then "your plan doesn't support mobile tethering."
I'm not sure....all I know is when I buy a device that's unlocked from swappa....wait a minute, is the S24 model you have Verizon exclusive? I had an S10 5G that was Verizon specific that didn't work, but .... unlocked on swappa always work and I have the same problem as you. Other workaround is Pixel with Graphene OS.
secret things is "tether dun".
Maybe, its time to switch service providers. Or perhaps the software if its not working for you.