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Over the hoildays I have been busy trying to get on the PSN using my Android Phone And now I am on. here is the video there is a step that was missing, it was in sharings for the net. When you allow the sharing you were it say select a private network connection you put you local area connetion that is you ps3. I hope you all will enjoy...
http://www.youtube.com/user/kingskidd268#p/a/u/0/Twx29m_Phzg
Now this is a how to tether your PS3 using android using windows 7 Please this is for those that have Unlilited Data
What you cant do video chat, some game are nat strict mean you cant join when you are invited on some games.
1. must have a root hack android phone with the wirerless tether app. I am using MT3G. Note you should update the tether app to 1.7 google codes have it.
2. Computer running windows 7 OS I have it dont ask me about vista or xp plaese.
3. enternet cable.
4. PS3
Turn on the tether app. make sure the computer pick up the tether, and connect to it. Then plug in the enternet cable from the computer to ther PS3. Open Network and Sharing. The new network for the PS3 will be Unidentified network that the PS3. on the tether nework click on the wireless network in blue and Wireless network connection will open, click on Properties, then goto sharing. Check allow others network users to connect through this computer internet connection. under that chose Local area connection that sould be the PS3. and hit ok. set up you PS3 through Custom> Wired connection> Auto Detect> Auito> Do not Set> Auto> AutoDo not Use> Enable then press X and test your network.
I hope you all enjoy this took me many hour to make this happen. see you all on the PSN add me kingskidd268
Playin COD MW2 http://www.youtube.com/user/kingskidd268#p/u/6/EPZ4UKF7Vyk
Tether apk 1.7 http://android-wifi-tether.googlecode.com/files/wireless_tether_1_70-pre1_htc.apk
kingskidd268 said:
Over the hoildays I have been busy trying to get on the PSN using my Android Phone And now I am on. here is the video there is a step that was missing, it was in sharings for the net. When you allow the sharing you were it say select a private network connection you put you local area connetion that is you ps3. I hope you all will enjoy...
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Hey King's-kid its Tether
I would like to try this, seems my PS3 doesnt get along with my Wifi-N router..Shows the IP as 169.XXX.XXX.XX.
Ace42 said:
Hey King's-kid its Tether
I would like to try this, seems my PS3 doesnt get along with my Wifi-N router..Shows the IP as 169.XXX.XXX.XX.
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Opps my bad just happy about it made a type O.
I cant get the video to play (says an error occurred). Would you will be willing to type up a step by step. I always figured this would work on PS3, just never figured out how.
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I cant get the video to play (says an error occurred). Would you will be willing to type up a step by step. I always figured this would work on PS3, just never figured out how.
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its up now.
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its up now.
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I might I just dont like typing...lol
kingskidd268 said:
I might I just dont like typing...lol
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You quoted yourself =b
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You quoted yourself =b
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dam i am sleepy... lol
THANXZ KING DIZZ HELPED ALOT...I ALWAYZ HAD TROUBLE TETHERING TILL NOW =D
ps thiz iz not sarcasm if ur thinking it iz=D
jf4888 said:
THANXZ KING DIZZ HELPED ALOT...I ALWAYZ HAD TROUBLE TETHERING TILL NOW =D
ps thiz iz not sarcasm if ur thinking it iz=D
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Glad I can help I am trying to see if this work on the droid as well... It should.
I would also like to see a write-up on this, please. Very interested in this. Cant watch the video @ work though. Thank you very much
smsrat84 said:
I would also like to see a write-up on this, please. Very interested in this. Cant watch the video @ work though. Thank you very much
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I will work on it to night and edit the post.
video for cod MD2 for you http://www.youtube.com/user/kingskidd268#p/u/6/EPZ4UKF7Vyk
Ok eveybody it is now and how to enjoy.
cool but I'll avoid this, I wouldn't want my carrier coming by my house and shooting me in the back
Macmee said:
cool but I'll avoid this, I wouldn't want my carrier coming by my house and shooting me in the back
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lol that is why I have unlilited data.....
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Do keep in mind, an unlimited data plan has its restrictions such as:
“To provide the best network experience for all of our customers we may temporarily reduce data throughput for a small fraction of customers who use a disproportionate amount of bandwidth. Your data session, plan, or service may be suspended, terminated, or restricted for significant roaming or if you use your service in a way that interferes with our network or ability to provide quality service to other users.”
mekaziah said:
Do keep in mind, an unlimited data plan has its restrictions such as:
“To provide the best network experience for all of our customers we may temporarily reduce data throughput for a small fraction of customers who use a disproportionate amount of bandwidth. Your data session, plan, or service may be suspended, terminated, or restricted for significant roaming or if you use your service in a way that interferes with our network or ability to provide quality service to other users.”
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Sounds like you work for tmobile...
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Sounds like you work for tmobile...
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I doubt we could run up 10GB on a PS3 though...Just from MP games anyway.
Well see you on the PSN...
playing mw2 will probably only take up 30 MB/hour
oh and the unlimited plan cap is 10 GB/month
Hey guys, I'm relatively new to torrenting and I figured since this community is so great that I would run it by you guys first.
Speedtest says that my download speed is approximately 8mb/s. Why are my Utorrent download speeds so slow then? I'm only getting about 2mb/s download speeds.
There are plenty of seeders as well so I don't think that is the problem.
Could be throttling from your ISP, or it could be that you just aren't getting the same speeds over the ports uT is using. Or maybe all your seeds are slow. Could be any number of things.
8 mbit is your speedtest speed, utorrent is telling you your download speed as mbyte. they are 2 different ways of saying the same speed but they are not equal
example: speedtest tells me 9.56mbps I can download at 1226kBps or 1.2mBps
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Could be throttling from your ISP, or it could be that you just aren't getting the same speeds over the ports uT is using. Or maybe all your seeds are slow. Could be any number of things.
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I'm downloading Dexter Season 5 which is in the top 100 torrents in Pirate Bay so i don't think that it is a problem with the seeds. Any way to check the other things though such as throttling from my ISP? I read that my ISP does in fact throttle so is there any way to get around this?
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I'm downloading Dexter Season 5 which is in the top 100 torrents in Pirate Bay so i don't think that it is a problem with the seeds. Any way to check the other things though such as throttling from my ISP? I read that my ISP does in fact throttle so is there any way to get around this?
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use an encrypted vpn, or a speedbox. I have comcast and they are notorious for throttling, but I use btguard so I don't get throttled, and nobody can track me
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use an encrypted vpn, or a speedbox. I have comcast and they are notorious for throttling, but I use btguard so I don't get throttled, and nobody can track me
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I'm going to look into setting all of this up. Would you mind helping me out? Thanks for your help.
yeah, pm me
Are you doing this through your phone (only reason I ask is because, well, it's here)? If so, your ping times are probably nowhere near fast enough to get you to consistently hit that 8 mbps speed.
If you've got multiple computers, here's a nifty trick I found this past weekend to get around some ISP's (namely, Comcast) throttling:
1) On both computers, install uTorrent 3.0 Alpha.
2) Under Preferences>BitTorrent set outbound encryption to forced, and un-check "Allow incoming legacy connections", under Basic BitTorrent Features, make sure everything except "Limit local peer bandwidth" is checked.
3) Confirm your router supports UPnP, and check Preferences>Connection "Enable UPnP port mapping", "Enable NAT-PMP port mapping", "Randomize port each start", and "Add Windows Firewall exception"
3a) If you have a firewall on your computer like ESET Smart Security, make sure to create an exception for all inbound and outbound TCP and UDP connections to/from utorrent.exe.
4) Load the same torrent file in both computers' uTorrent list. Under Peers, right-click and select "add peer", and enter the LAN IP address and port (you can get the port from Preferences>Connection>Listening Port) of the other computer.
Now, each computer will download the torrent and (hopefully) go after different pieces of the torrent simultaneously, then share over the LAN what each one has gotten. Enabling Local Peer Discovery will also find a bunch of peers from your ISP, since cable networks act like giant WAN-addressable LANs. (If you want an example, hook up your computer directly to your cable modem's ethernet port, and open up Wireshark. You'll see a ton of broadcasts from people's LANs, like mDNS and ARP requests. You could even do some ARP poisoning and sniff everyone's traffic in your neighborhood...)
Thanks for everyones comments and suggestions! Weirdly enough, I got it working great now and just by uninstalling and reinstalling as to restore the default settings in Utorrent 2.2.
One thing that peaks my curiousity however, earlier when I was trying to leach off my friends 8mb/s download speed internet I was only achieving the 2mb/s or so. When I got home to my house, I was getting about 2.5mb/s and the internet package that we have is supposed to only allow for 1mb/s!
I stopped all downloads and went onto speedtest.net and I did indeed register at ~2.7mb/s download and 1.1mb/s upload. I don't understand how this is possible considering last week I consistently was only getting 1mb/s and even called my cable company and they confirmed that was what I was paying for. Doesn't make any sense but I'm definitely not complaining
I get about 15 mbps down and about 1mbps up on speedtest.net. When I download a movie I see about 2mbps down and about 90kbps max. Whats everyones upload? Thats what really matters.
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Hey guys, I'm relatively new to torrenting and I figured since this community is so great that I would run it by you guys first.
Speedtest says that my download speed is approximately 8mb/s. Why are my Utorrent download speeds so slow then? I'm only getting about 2mb/s download speeds.
There are plenty of seeders as well so I don't think that is the problem.
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I found a torrent app for Android that actually works. I have tried several but tTorrent is the only one I have found that really works. They have a free lite version that has a download speed cap but I paid for the full which was 2 something.
https://slideme.org/en/applications?text=ttorrent
Do what you want cause a pirate is free! You are a pirate! lets make a sing along!
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Maybe there should be a disclaimer in the op lol
Limit your global upload speed to 25kb/s, walk away for 10 mins. Bam, max speed.
If that doesn't work, the torrent you want probably doesn't have enough seeds close by to you with good upload.
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Hey since you guys are talking about torrents, here is a off topic question if you dont mind. Do you all use torrents for music or something else? PM if you like thanks!
I use torrents for everything...music, movies, software, everything. But, I have on offshore FTP so the US goverment can kiss my Arse!!
skantman69 said:
I use torrents for everything...music, movies, software, everything. But, I have on offshore FTP so the US goverment can kiss my Arse!!
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same, I don't have tv subscription at home, I have tv connected to laptop via hdmi and 5tb network hub with my media, I haven't seen a commercial in years
NewZJ said:
same, I don't have tv subscription at home, I have tv connected to laptop via hdmi and 5tb network hub with my media, I haven't seen a commercial in years
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+1 i'm doing the same thing. Time Warner can suck it
My setup up is a acer revo running XBMC live version.. with 2 1TB drives.. with digital out straight to my yamaha receiver.. of course the rest of the house is reg ol sat.. ( dish ).. for the kids and wife..
I use the set it and forget it method of using torrents. have like 3 or 4 BR movies at night going while im sleeping. in the morning they are done..
XBMC rocks..way better than anything retail.. cough crappy Western digital HD media player.lol
I have managed to connect to wifi tether, and the built in hotspot, and with barnacle. I opened the proper ports in barnacle, but always come up with strict NAT settings.
I then used wired and wireless to tether my Ubuntu desktop, and connected the Ethernet to the Xbox. Still strict. I then tried opening the ports with firestarter and now it connects to the network and internet but not Xbox live. Has anyone successfully got NAT open while tethering?
#AngelFace#
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I have managed to connect to wifi tether, and the built in hotspot, and with barnacle. I opened the proper ports in barnacle, but always come up with strict NAT settings.
I then used wired and wireless to tether my Ubuntu desktop, and connected the Ethernet to the Xbox. Still strict. I then tried opening the ports with firestarter and now it connects to the network and internet but not Xbox live. Has anyone successfully got NAT open while tethering?
#AngelFace#
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If you are trying to tether with the intent of playing online gaming or streaming Netflix the Bandwidth isn't high enough to support it.
Streaming Netflix works perfectly fine. Full HD playback. The gaming is slightly lagged, but I think opening NAT might help.
#AngelFace#
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Streaming Netflix works perfectly fine. Full HD playback. The gaming is slightly lagged, but I think opening NAT might help.
#AngelFace#
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Unfortunately, unless you can get t-mobile to forward the ports needed to your phones outside ip from the tower, its not gonna happen. The towers all have a couple of t1's that provide data to your phones. The ports would have to be forwarded on the routers at the towers, and thats just not gonna happen.
Damn, thanks option. My next question would be of this nature:
Why the hell does barnacle have port forwarding options if the networks control that?
#AngelFace#
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Damn, thanks option. My next question would be of this nature:
Why the hell does barnacle have port forwarding options if the networks control that?
#AngelFace#
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Because you can use it to forward ports locally, but you need ports forwarded publically for xbox and such to work.
option94 said:
Because you can use it to forward ports locally, but you need ports forwarded publically for xbox and such to work.
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You're the man. I ****ing hate networking of any kind.
#AngelFace#
I hate it since it can be rather annoying, but its what I do.
I'm gonna try calling T-Mobile and see if they'll open the ports. Any suggestions on an excuse for having this done? I'd rather not advertise that I'm using their hotspot for free. Lol.
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I'm gonna try calling T-Mobile and see if they'll open the ports. Any suggestions on an excuse for having this done? I'd rather not advertise that I'm using their hotspot for free. Lol.
#AngelFace#
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LOL. Good luck with that. Its not gonna happen. Could pose a major security risk for them potentially. Well, not really witht he ports you need, but they wont see it that way.
They told me that there is no way for them to do it. They said if I buy the tethering plan it should fix that problem. I got the plan, and its still a no go. I then called back and asked another guy that said they can't give me any information about it. He told me the tethering plan is strictly for internet explorer or safari. Douche bags.
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They told me that there is no way for them to do it. They said if I buy the tethering plan it should fix that problem. I got the plan, and its still a no go. I then called back and asked another guy that said they can't give me any information about it. He told me the tethering plan is strictly for internet explorer or safari. Douche bags.
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Welcome to the world of attempting to do more than what a provider claims they want to sell you. Before home routers were ubiquitous if you called your ISP that your service was down and dared answer "Yes" that you had a router support died right there. It was obviously a user equipment fault and they would investigate no further!
Understand that T-Mo and all comm providers are catering to the lowest common denominator "Joe User" with their service; it's what makes profit. Fringe use cases like yours don't. Case in point, Charter refused to help me at all even when I could prove an outage in their network simply because when asked "What OS are you using" I said "Linux" -- they tried to tell me the internet only functioned on MAC and Windows!
The point of all this is: you may be able to do what you're attempting with some network trickery if you have the time and energy to invest into Googling the knowledge. Just don't expect your provider to help you any, and they're not douches for it .
You shouldn't need any port forwarding at all. Port forwarding is to work through a firewall and your hot spot doesn't have one. You get straight internet access to it. Your game its most likely laggy due to poor latency or poor upload speeds. I've tried playing from xbox live on my hot spot too with about 3 MB down and 512 KB up on HPDA.
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Well yesterday I was tethering like i've done every day on my device and I kept getting redirected to a tmobile webpage telling me to pay an extra $15 per month for tethering.
My T989 Sgsii is using CM7 and there is no tmobile tethering software on the device. Is anyone else able to tether? Im on a prepaid contract have have tethered every day for free since last december.
Im guessing tmobile is blocking my tethering on the network end, since all blocking/tethering management software has been removed from my phone.
Any advice? If i cant tether, i cant use up all 5 gigs i pay for, so ill probably get a cheaper plan or switch to straight talk.
Seems like we have the same problem?
I made a post on the Nexus One forum aswell.
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Seems like we have the same problem?
I made a post on the Nexus One forum aswell.
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Yup. Looks like we both have the same problem.
Tmobile must be somehow able to detect when my computer tries to hop on their network and blocks it.
Can anyone else who uses tmobile comment on this?
They're mainly catching you by looking at the headers of your http traffic, and assuming that http requests with desktop browser strings are coming from tethered PCs. If you change them to spoof Android's browser, T-mo can't tell the difference.
They could probe more deeply if they wanted to, but as a practical matter, they don't. If they blindly dip the net into the stream and just look for http traffic with desktop-browser identities, they can effortlessly catch 99% of the people who tether.
If you really want to hide your tethering from them, just subscribe to a PPTP VPN service like ibvpn.com. It's around $5/month (~$37 if you pay for the whole year up front), it'll TOTALLY hide what you're doing from T-Mobile (because all they'll see is an encrypted bitstream), and also comes in handy for using a wi-fi tablet with public access points (the reason *I* subscribe).
Just be careful to make sure your network connection doesn't drop while you're tethered, because there doesn't seem to be any way to tell Android, "Establish this VPN whenever there's connectivity, and DO NOT send ANY data via ANY means besides the VPN". If your connection drops, the VPN will break, and if the phone reconnects to T-Mo a half second later, it'll just silently send all network traffic going forward straight through T-Mobile until you reconnect to the VPN.
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They're mainly catching you by looking at the headers of your http traffic, and assuming that http requests with desktop browser strings are coming from tethered PCs. If you change them to spoof Android's browser, T-mo can't tell the difference.
They could probe more deeply if they wanted to, but as a practical matter, they don't. If they blindly dip the net into the stream and just look for http traffic with desktop-browser identities, they can effortlessly catch 99% of the people who tether.
If you really want to hide your tethering from them, just subscribe to a PPTP VPN service like ibvpn.com. It's around $5/month (~$37 if you pay for the whole year up front), it'll TOTALLY hide what you're doing from T-Mobile (because all they'll see is an encrypted bitstream), and also comes in handy for using a wi-fi tablet with public access points (the reason *I* subscribe).
Just be careful to make sure your network connection doesn't drop while you're tethered, because there doesn't seem to be any way to tell Android, "Establish this VPN whenever there's connectivity, and DO NOT send ANY data via ANY means besides the VPN". If your connection drops, the VPN will break, and if the phone reconnects to T-Mo a half second later, it'll just silently send all network traffic going forward straight through T-Mobile until you reconnect to the VPN.
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best advice ive received so far - i was wondering how they were able to tell i was tethering. so i guess ill just need a browser that supports changing of the user agent? or is it more complicated to browser spoof?
I got the same message two days ago with a prepaid account on a CM9 exhibit ii
I'm not sure just changing the ua would help though because I'm getting the redirect on my android tablet as well, not just my laptop
The headers also give them an idea if more than one unit is being serviced, ie: hotspot. Encryption hides this as well. Bottom line? They will see tethering if they look for it.
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I just use Opera. It hasn't failed me yet.
I believe the tether detection works by looking at the TTL for packets. It would be more than it should be if the client is using the device as a gateway. Thing is HTTPS still works once you've been "blocked" as well a bunch of other protocols, so it looks like they are just setting a captive portal for port 80 traffic. That said, I have a Zentyal VPN set up at home on my 50mb/s line, so once tethered I VPN into my home machine which then resets my gateway on my laptop to be the gateway on the VPN machine at home. This redirects ALL traffic through the VPN effectively side stepping t-mobiles blocking altogether. So as long as they still allow any data connections over my data plan while tethering than I can access everything like normal. One positive side effect is that general browsing seems to be MUCH faster given that the traffic is really actually being downloaded from my home connection and being siphoned through the VPN rather than having the phone itself and t-mobiles crappy gateway doing all the work.
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Not to mention, everything is encrypted so t-mobile cant track any of my surfing habits either. I dont know about you all, but I tend to trust my ISP a little more than my wireless carrier.
So the issue has been solved.
I can tether on tmobiles network with no issues as long as i DONT use google chrome. Safari and Firefox access webpages no problem. Chrome has a user agent string which tmobile is able to see - and block by default on their network.
I'm on Tmobile w/ my Droid 3, stock OS. I tether once in a while, only use Chrome for browsing, and I've never gotten redirected.
--posted from my phone
EDIT: found another thread here with more posts:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26477722
5318008 said:
I'm on Tmobile w/ my Droid 3, stock OS. I tether once in a while, only use Chrome for browsing, and I've never gotten redirected.
--posted from my phone
EDIT: found another thread here with more posts:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26477722
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I was using chrome all day today. First half of the day it was fine (and every other time before this but I've only had them for less than a month), but then after I started pushing maybe a gig through netflix in addition to using chrome THEN chrome stopped working. Had to use a user agent extension to get chrome working again.
So it might be a trigger set off by data usage to THEN check for the user agent
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I was using chrome all day today. First half of the day it was fine (and every other time before this but I've only had them for less than a month), but then after I started pushing maybe a gig through netflix in addition to using chrome THEN chrome stopped working. Had to use a user agent extension to get chrome working again.
So it might be a trigger set off by data usage to THEN check for the user agent
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Makes sense. TMobile doesn't appear to have refarmed Portland yet, so when I do tether, I don't end up using that much data, what with being stuck on 2G and all.
Please look at my post regarding T-mobile tethering
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26649587#post26649587
The methods employed by t-mobile to detect tethering are quite frivolous and an asinine move on their part. Their detection does not even work properly.
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fix for Tmobile blocking tethering with usb cable
To fix your issue just change your user agent in IE or Firefox. If you dont know how to do that just google change Useragent for IE or firefox.
Hopes this helps.
jordanishere said:
Well yesterday I was tethering like i've done every day on my device and I kept getting redirected to a tmobile webpage telling me to pay an extra $15 per month for tethering.
My T989 Sgsii is using CM7 and there is no tmobile tethering software on the device. Is anyone else able to tether? Im on a prepaid contract have have tethered every day for free since last december.
Im guessing tmobile is blocking my tethering on the network end, since all blocking/tethering management software has been removed from my phone.
Any advice? If i cant tether, i cant use up all 5 gigs i pay for, so ill probably get a cheaper plan or switch to straight talk.
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Firefox doesn't work either...
jordanishere said:
So the issue has been solved.
I can tether on tmobiles network with no issues as long as i DONT use google chrome. Safari and Firefox access webpages no problem. Chrome has a user agent string which tmobile is able to see - and block by default on their network.
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I'm going to try Safari, but they pounced on me when using Firefox.... :crying:
Hello,
Is anyone else having this problem? When I tether the Internet connection off my phone (wifi tethering) my browser and rom manager's Internet connection work fine, but Gapps, the market, Dropbox and several other apps will not connect to the Internet... Does anyone know the cause of this?
Did you enable "restrict background data"? I know Play Store doesn't work for me when I restrict that.
Otherwise everything works fine tethered to my Galaxy Nexus.
asawoszc said:
Did you enable "restrict background data"? I know Play Store doesn't work for me when I restrict that.
Otherwise everything works fine tethered to my Galaxy Nexus.
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I did not unless it does this by default... I'm tethering 3G, not 4g... Could it just be my 3G isn't strong enough signal?
This Q&A thread is ridiculous! You ask a question and your post is bounced back 3 pages before u can get a response! And do Devs even cruise this thread looking to answer questions? It's all just fellow average users! BUMP
randroid123 said:
Hello,
Is anyone else having this problem? When I tether the Internet connection off my phone (wifi tethering) my browser and rom manager's Internet connection work fine, but Gapps, the market, Dropbox and several other apps will not connect to the Internet... Does anyone know the cause of this?
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I can't really answer your question, but I have ( or had) a similar issue. ( Plus it will bump the thread up As you know, WiFi tethering will rape your phones battery. My HTC Wildfire S battery sucks ass to begin with, so its a must it is plugged in if I'm going to tether for more than 15 mins. I tried an app called FoxFi, because it's got rave reviews and it has Bluetooth tethering...and compared to WiFi tether, BT tethering uses hardly any battery. Well, I could save over 50℅ battery by using BT tether, and I was so excited. Until I tried to use ANYTHING BUT the web browser. Internet was fine, but everything else just stated "no network connection". No Google Now, no Asphalt 7, and no YouTube. What a let down. Maybe I'll look into it tonight and let you know if I find anything. The battery savings are worth me looking into it.
Much appreciated! I'm hearing that people with 4g phones aren't getting this issue... Perhaps the connection just isn't enough for the market and Gapps? I actually kind of doubt this because browsing is very snappy and I've been able to download large files with relatively good speed