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Being charged for tethering?

I currently have a Vibrant and have unlocked the wireless hotspot that comes with the phone. I want to get the mytouch but T-Mobile is now imposing a 14.99 tether plan as of November 3rd. I do not use tethering enough to justify that expense, do you guys think we will be able to unlock the tethering that is built into froyo or just use some sort of app off the market to avoid paying the 14.99?

Pdanet is what I use on my wife's Vibrant.
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GentillyWoods said:
Pdanet is what I use on my wife's Vibrant.
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Hopefully that is something that can be used on the mytouch

If there is a will, there's a way

PolishDude said:
Hopefully that is something that can be used on the mytouch
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Should work as long as they don't gimp the market like AT&T has.
In either event, hacks to re-enable FroYo's built-in tethering should be trivial.

ATT GIMPED the market? how so I tether always I leave it on all night at hotels sometimes and no repercussions. Same plan no extra charge. unless they changed something and im grandfathered in with my old 4 year unlimited internet plan.

sdlopez83 said:
ATT GIMPED the market? how so I tether always I leave it on all night at hotels sometimes and no repercussions. Same plan no extra charge. unless they changed something and im grandfathered in with my old 4 year unlimited internet plan.
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Yes, gimped. As in, you can't install un-trusted sources. It's an option on every other android handset, except those from AT&T. They pretty much took the best part about Android and neutered it.
Are you rooted? I'm talking about stock settings, where you can't get at the option to change it. Of course, rooting is another story, but having the android market being the only official source for apps sucks ass.

Speaking as an employee of T-mobile, I am seriously confused as to how the company is going to implement these charges. I just got the mytouch 4g as a champion device, and the tethering works just fine for me! I didn't change my account or anything, but then again I am not on a standard account. Now, I doubt that the phone automatically disables the feature when it detects an account without the tethering feature, but maybe T-Mo has something up their sleeve. They like to leave us in the dark with the important details.
Edit: Also didn't consider that maybe it's something to do with the champion device itself. Perhaps they left it unlocked for us to screw with, but I'll test a retail unit soon and see if there's a difference.

WiFi Tether availability

Hey - didja know?
Google has removed the way cool green icon WiFi Tether
from Market..
That application makes my Incredible a little powerhouse.
Since I'm always messing around with new roms, I usually
go to Market to get my new dose of Tether. But lately, it
hasn't been there. No mention of it anywhere.
Did a search and discovered that Google has removed the
application from Market. No longer available, period.
So, if you like it and use it, download the APK and use
a Market installer program to get it on your Incredible.
Save that APK in case it somehow goes away forever!
Get it at: http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list

Interesting. I just loaded the market and when I look at my apps, WT is not showing up even though I have it installed.
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ucluglee said:
Interesting. I just loaded the market and when I look at my apps, WT is not showing up even though I have it installed.
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Its not showing up cause its pulled off of the market. If its not in the market, its not going to show up on your "My Apps" list in the market.
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Blah12543 said:
Its not showing up cause its pulled off of the market. If its not in the market, its not going to show up on your "My Apps" list in the market.
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Interesting. Easy Tether and Wireless Tether pulled on the same day.
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Verizon had all tethering apps removed from the market. Read on engadget
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tcberg2010 said:
Verizon had all tethering apps removed from the market. Read on engadget
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Good thing it's built in to CM7!

toosurreal01 said:
Good thing it's built in to CM7!
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I've got a backup of it in Titanium
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I rarely tether, but when I do, I've still been using the built in app and go in and make sure I edit the settings (doing the hack). I've still never been billed for it or had any problems. Then again, I'm not rooted.

Its kinda disappointing to me that Google gave in to Verizon and pulled those apps. Not that you can't just download the apk from somewhere else, but its the principle..
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bbeelzebub said:
I rarely tether, but when I do, I've still been using the built in app and go in and make sure I edit the settings (doing the hack). I've still never been billed for it or had any problems. Then again, I'm not rooted.
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I've done the "hack" on the stock ROM before I was even rooted. Works perfectly. Free tethering, without even having to root.

BrettApple said:
I've done the "hack" on the stock ROM before I was even rooted. Works perfectly. Free tethering, without even having to root.
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Same here. I am not rooted (yet) but I have never been billed for wireless tether. I also have easy tether pro backed up so I am good to go.
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remember if you want the bluetooth tether option, you need wireless-tether, not wifi-tether. Dev has said previously he is separating the functionality between two apps.

Verizon sucks even though I get my bill from them. I have alltel esns er phones I wifi tether 24 7 to 5 computers using wifi hack on an Eris. it's nice to have high speed internet in the woods where internet is not offered. funny thing is wifi tethering is way faster (2mb)than internet on the phone itself(80kb) I have true unlimited internet with alltel esn phones for a measly 9.95 extra per month known as connect3 pack. if you have alltel plan with verizon never never never upgrade or you will lose it forever. there are other ways around it.
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highhacker said:
Verizon sucks even though I get my bill from them. I have alltel esns er phones I wifi tether 24 7 to 5 computers using wifi hack on an Eris. it's nice to have high speed internet in the woods where internet is not offered. funny thing is wifi tethering is way faster (2mb)than internet on the phone itself(80kb) I have true unlimited internet with alltel esn phones for a measly 9.95 extra per month known as connect3 pack. if you have alltel plan with verizon never never never upgrade or you will lose it forever. there are other ways around it.
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I'm an Alltel customer that was picked up by Verizon and I did an upgrade to get my Incredible back in May 2010 and I was expecting to be converted to a Verizon plan but I still have my Alltel all in one bundled plan and I'm not billed the data package from Verizon since my Alltel plan is an unlimited Data/Email/Text plan with 500 anytime minutes, 10 friends and family numbers, and nights and weekends starting at 7pm. I figured it was a fluke that I kept that plan when I upgraded to the Incredible. How do you get around them changing your plan as you get a new phone? Would I need to purchase all my phones full price going foward? I'm guessing with my Alltel plan I'm saving at least $35 or more a month. I have a corporate discount as well but since my Alltel plan is a all in one plan at one prices I get the discount on my full bill but if I switched to a Verizon plan I would only get that discount on the monthly basic plan price and the data plan and anything extra would not qualify for the discount. I would love to keep this Alltel price as long as I can so when it comes time for me to get another phone next year I'm not sure if I should do the upgrade or not chance it and just my next phone out right.
As far as tethering goes, I have both the WiFi tething app as I'm rooted and I have done the "hack" so I can use 3g mobile hotspot. I have tested them both and I get consistantly faster speeds on WiFi tether then I do with 3g Mobile hotspot but they both work great.

Most Roms come with it installed. SR4 does

Just wanted to point somethings out,
Google has not pulled any tether app from the market. Yes, it is true that you can not find Wireless Tether, PDAnet, or any tethering app if you search for them while on the Verizon Wireless Network. They are just blocked if you are their network. If you jump on a wifi network, and do them same search the apps come back up and are not blocked. This is the case for not just Verizon users but AT&T users.
Just wanted to get things straight

billabongif said:
Just wanted to point somethings out,
Google has not pulled any tether app from the market. Yes, it is true that you can not find Wireless Tether, PDAnet, or any tethering app if you search for them while on the Verizon Wireless Network. They are just blocked if you are their network. If you jump on a wifi network, and do them same search the apps come back up and are not blocked. This is the case for not just Verizon users but AT&T users.
Just wanted to get things straight
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Just checked, I'm on wifi and I couldn't find wireless tether (the popular one with the green icon) on the market.
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if you go to the Market website on a pc, its there...
https://market.android.com/details?id=android.tether&feature=search_result

Don't forget the Google Code Page with Official and Beta releases
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/

Just go to the devs page and download it from there. Other option is to titanium backup the apk and your good to go.

Tethering with Barnical

So will att catch on? I only will use it for Playing world of warcraft for a few hours eevery 3 or 4 days and basic web browsing. A few hours of game play is ONLY about 50mb if even that. But will they catch on? I have the 30 dollar unlimated plan

I got a letter from att a month ago about tethering on my infuse. I'm not sure how they found out since I was running a cooked rom I wouldn't chance it cause they will switch your account to the 4 gig tethering plan
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N!ghtgold said:
I got a letter from att a month ago about tethering on my infuse. I'm not sure how they found out since I was running a cooked rom I wouldn't chance it cause they will switch your account to the 4 gig tethering plan
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Will they warn me first?? or will they just switch it?

Im sorry i didn't mean to post in this section i ha to many tabs and didn't see it
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hyelton said:
Will they warn me first?? or will they just switch it?
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They need to let you know they are changing your plan before they do so. I have been tethering with my phone for years now and ATT has never said anything to and I think it has to do with the amount of traffic. If they see a huge spike of activity and then they look at where that traffic is coming from and they see that you are connecting to battle net then they will know something is up(i know the traffic is not coming from battle net). What I am trying to say is do it within reason, as my guess is the people that they are catching are using well over 2GB a month.

I hope a mod moves this soon... But I heard of at least one person getting nailed with usage <1GB.

i used to tether my blackberry to my ipod touch forever and att has never said anything, i used to use it on my netbook when i went to school too. this was bluetoothtethering. but im think it has more to do with what a user is doing/amount of traffic they are using etc. as for the <gb guy, that may have been a random check or something else. but tethering to play online gaming you will surely get naildd... so use at your own risk knowing the consequences if they/when they find out

I've been tethering for years. I regularly go over 5gb's and at&t has never said anything. I am grandfathered in on the unlimited tho, and I normally only use it for tethering my tablet which is Android so it probably looks as tho it's just coming from my phone. Oh and occasional tethering to my Xbox when my DSL drops out. Lol.
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I believe it has to do with the internet stack in the phone. Seen an article a while back on this. If you use a cooked rom they will know if it is based on the stock kernal and rom. If you use something like cyanogenmod they shouldn't ever find out. I think I seen this explanation with verizon tethering and how to get around it.

goldfingerfif said:
I believe it has to do with the internet stack in the phone. Seen an article a while back on this. If you use a cooked rom they will know if it is based on the stock kernal and rom. If you use something like cyanogenmod they shouldn't ever find out. I think I seen this explanation with verizon tethering and how to get around it.
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but that wouldnt explain how i could tether with my blackberry to computers and ipods with no ATT wrath, and i know these are android phones but tethering is tethering..right?

How AT&T can find out?
About four months ago I received a txt from AT&T thanking me for enjoying my trial period of tethering for my iPhone and that a tethering package would automatically be on my next bill. The forum I was on (don't remember where) simply stated that all I had to do was go into an AT&T store and demand that I NOT be placed on the tethering plan. I did that and after a quick phone call from the store to a CSR they pulled it off but with a warning. They said that if tethering activity was monitored again that they would add it back and I couldn't remove it (yeah right).
I was using the MyWi app from Cydia that works perfectly. I used it for nearly two years with no issue. However, the PDANet Cydia app has a "Hide Tethering" option in the program that always made me curious. What is it hiding? MyWi doesn't have that option.
I also used a Windows Mobile phone prior to that with ICS installed and regularly tethered to that as well. I think that ROM was a NotaTreoFan ROM most of the time and then Energy.
I would love the option of adding tethering to my SGS2 but I refuse to pay for a tethering plan. I'm still grandfathered into unlimited data.
Thoughts?

hyelton said:
So will att catch on? I only will use it for Playing world of warcraft for a few hours eevery 3 or 4 days and basic web browsing. A few hours of game play is ONLY about 50mb if even that. But will they catch on? I have the 30 dollar unlimated plan
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They shouldn't notice anything. I have used barnacle tether on T-Mobile and sprint. So both sim and cdma for a while now. And so far nothing. I'm pretty sure barnacle tether just uses your mobile network and shows up as nothing more than data usage. Bc when using the built in carrier tethering they see the app in use and send that data back. I check my tether stats and network stats and it just shows up as network use. I think you will be fine
Nexus S 4G using miui.us with matr1x kernal 9.0 and batttweak RC1

Wifi tethering and T Mobile txt message about upsell to mobile hotspot plan.

I'm currently using the stock rom with root GS 2 w/2.3.6 . The only thing I did is remove most of the bloat ware and uninstall the wifi tethering manager app that blocks the use of it without a hot spot data plan. I was using my wifi hotspot and all the suddenly got a txt message about upsell to hot spot plan if not my tethering will be block. As anybody experience this. I came from a Vibrant and never got this txt message. Only once did I go over the 5gb data cap with a G2 a while back. I'm under the old unlimited data plan ( 5gb soft cap). With the Vibrant I was using a Team Whiskey rom not the stock rom. Do you think it could be the stock rom or just tmobile being more smart about detecting this now.

j0a0a7 said:
I'm currently using the stock rom with root GS 2 w/2.3.6 . The only thing I did is remove most of the bloat ware and uninstall the wifi tethering manager app that blocks the use of it without a hot spot data plan. I was using my wifi hotspot and all the suddenly got a txt message about upsell to hot spot plan if not my tethering will be block. As anybody experience this. I came from a Vibrant and never got this txt message. Only once did I go over the 5gb data cap with a G2 a while back. I'm under the old unlimited data plan ( 5gb soft cap). With the Vibrant I was using a Team Whiskey rom not the stock rom. Do you think it could be the stock rom or just tmobile being more smart about detecting this now.
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I've never had this problem, I also have the 5gb plan. When I have used the tether and hotspot its been on a custom rom. I don't think the rom matters though.
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Been using a custom ROM from day one incl. freezing/uninstalling the bloatware [presumably] associated w/tethering and used to get the same msgs. but didn't see them for a couple weeks. Just this morning got a new upsell msg., so they may have figured out a way around.
I'm only tethering to check work e-mail and that's through VPN, so that may have something to do with it.

I tether everyday,never had this txt message.with stock rooted or custom
From a glaxay better than yours.

I got this message once or twice on my vibrant. I was using my tether a lot and for heavy tasks though.

dont use internet explorer, use firefox. i found out they can detected if you use Internet explorer

Thanks seems to be IE and T Mobile doing a better job at catching it.
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G1_enthusiast said:
dont use internet explorer, use firefox. i found out they can detected if you use Internet explorer
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Or not...
I only use Firefox, and had only used Outlook (via Cisco Anyconnect VPN) when I got today's msg.

Does anyone have issues wifi tethering? im on jug 4.1 ..and i cannot get the internet to work on my computer with wifi tether (in the wifi tethering menu)... I can connect to my hotspot with open and wpa2 authentication...but says no internet connection on my pc...even after a reboot. usb tether works great...but i want wifi working. Anyone?
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I hope Tmo doesn't find a day to block it. I have no ethical qualms tethering without a plan. Tmo has no business telling me through what medium and velocity I go through my 5gb every month.
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I agree with that last sentence wholeheartedly!
TJBunch1228 said:
I hope Tmo doesn't find a day to block it. I have no ethical qualms tethering without a plan. Tmo has no business telling me through what medium and velocity I go through my 5gb every month.
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I use stock rom and I tether my phone to my galay tab and I never received any text msg from Tmobile. My phone is rooted and I have deleted tether management app. Also I use Open Garden Wifi tether app from market. From what I understand, it enables the build in tether but without sending a msg to Tmobile.
All you smart people, please correct me if I am wrong.

I have been using Open Garden WIFI Tether for almost a week without any problems. I just leave it open while driving. My son access it with his IPod Touch and my daughter with rooted NOOK Tablet. So far so good.

Tmo rep here. The tethering plan has always been $15 but Tmo has never really enforced it. They have recently started preventing tethering from working on devices but it is still pretty hit or miss. On my coworker's stock Amaze she is getting blocked even on the employee data plan but on my GS2 I have never been restricted but I've always been rooted.
Starting on the 25th of this month, they will be adding free tethering to 5GB data plans so if you do a a 5 gig plan, just have Tmo update the data feature and you should have no problem tethering. If you are just on a 2GB plan, you should be fine if you are rooted.

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Tmo rep here. The tethering plan has always been $15 but Tmo has never really enforced it. They have recently started preventing tethering from working on devices but it is still pretty hit or miss. On my coworker's stock Amaze she is getting blocked even on the employee data plan but on my GS2 I have never been restricted but I've always been rooted.
Starting on the 25th of this month, they will be adding free tethering to 5GB data plans so if you do a a 5 gig plan, just have Tmo update the data feature and you should have no problem tethering. If you are just on a 2GB plan, you should be fine if you are rooted.
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God damn, you guys are lucky.
We all know AT&T has some epic systems setup to prevent tethering, at least for the iPhones.
Thank god I haven't been caught yet. ^^

SwervFusion said:
Does anyone have issues wifi tethering? im on jug 4.1 ..and i cannot get the internet to work on my computer with wifi tether (in the wifi tethering menu)... I can connect to my hotspot with open and wpa2 authentication...but says no internet connection on my pc...even after a reboot. usb tether works great...but i want wifi working. Anyone?
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im using juggernaut...for me it says no internet access but if i wait a min or 2 it connects...so just try waiting a little while after it says no internet access before you use it

Just got this but it's on the laptop browser side:/ what files should I search for to delete?
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djpingpong said:
Tmo rep here. The tethering plan has always been $15 but Tmo has never really enforced it. They have recently started preventing tethering from working on devices but it is still pretty hit or miss. On my coworker's stock Amaze she is getting blocked even on the employee data plan but on my GS2 I have never been restricted but I've always been rooted.
Starting on the 25th of this month, they will be adding free tethering to 5GB data plans so if you do a a 5 gig plan, just have Tmo update the data feature and you should have no problem tethering. If you are just on a 2GB plan, you should be fine if you are rooted.
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So what about the people that are on the grandfathered $20 android plan
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So what about the people that are on the grandfathered $20 android plan
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Just called in (had to call in and ask for cancellations to even speak to anyone) the idiot I spoke to never heard of this promotion. Never had a tethering problem until yesterday when I tried it after reading this thread. I never had a problem with my N1 or Sensation. I really hate having to talk to people at Tmo. 90% of the time they are so stupid I'm ready to cancel my contract. I guess I will root and axe the wifi mgmt app and see if it works. If I have to call those idiots again I may be moving to Sprint.
From the wording of the TMO News document picture
http://www.tmonews.com/2012/01/t-mobile-launching-new-hush-hush-promotional-plans-on-january-25th/
it looks like you have to be upgrading to 5gb or 10gb to get this. The person I spoke to today said they always charge for tethering. Just like the dozen people I spoke with 6 months ago told me they always charge for wifi calling and there was no $20 5gb preferred plan. Not sure if dealing with these people is worth the money saved. smh

i juts called to ask about a thing on my bill and they offered me the upgrade to the 5gb for an extra 10 dollars per month, i dont really tether and im always either at my home wifi or my work's wifi, but im reeeally starting to think about sprint here, the problem is i travel overseas and i need a gsm phone.
if not ill switch to simple mobile, a friend has it and he has had no problems so far with it with international calling and 4g for 60 bucks i can be happy with that price, i would have to ask about the quality of the service though and get the unlock code for my phone first.

[Q] Tethering T-Mobile Unlimited Data Plan

So I got the Value plan after getting my Nexus 4 (unlimited data) but been having tethering issues. Please try to help me out if you actually understand the situation, don't just say "It works for me..."
Here's the deal, wired tethering works if I use Clockwork Mods Tether App. I used to think I needed to start up my Chrome from a Nexus 4 User agent, but same thing with and without, it works with the tether app (which obviously uses a companion app on the computer). BUT....A while ago tether never worked with the clockwork mod tether app if I didn't use the UA switch, but now it does, IDK whatever, T-mobile is weird.
However, straight from the settings, WiFi or wired tether never works, with or without APN and UA change (on comp), meaning I especially wont be able to use it on my PS3 and such. Now, I'm not sure if its a hidden APN thing, IDK, though I did create a separate APN and tried that out with the stock tether in the phone and it didn't work.
Anyone know any solutions, T-mobile is pretty good lol...? Lemee say thanks in advance
(A solution i would want is to be able to use it on my PS3 again, on something where I'm not able to install a clockwork mod tether app lol, a process be done phone side to bypass...)

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I don't think there is an answer to your question. You've been flagged by T-mobile. The only way to tether again is to pay for it.

El Daddy said:
I don't think there is an answer to your question. You've been flagged by T-mobile. The only way to tether again is to pay for it.
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But the question is, how do they know that you are tethering?

billrd said:
But the question is, how do they know that you are tethering?
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Because you are using too much data. Their montly 4G plans are capped at a maximum 5GB per month, says it right on their website, after that they throttle you down to 2G speeds.They can also see the unique ip address of everything your tethering, some tethering apps say they can hide the address or at least spoof it so it looks like its coming just from the phone, but if you still use too much data your screwed.

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Because you are using too much data. Their montly 4G plans are capped at a maximum 5GB per month, says it right on their website, after that they throttle you down to 2G speeds.They can also see the unique ip address of everything your tethering, some tethering apps say they can hide the address or at least spoof it so it looks like its coming just from the phone, but if you still use too much data your screwed.
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Well the new unlimited 4g value plan is unlimited, and there is NO throttling. However, you can't tether. I was just wondering how they can tell that the data is coming from a tethered laptop and not the phone itself.

billrd said:
Well the new unlimited 4g value plan is unlimited, and there is NO throttling. However, you can't tether. I was just wondering how they can tell that the data is coming from a tethered laptop and not the phone itself.
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Its probably a combination between UA strings and excessive data not usual with a smartphone.
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Yes they can tell
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Yes they can tell
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I agree, but how can they tell? It's not from excessive data usage, at least for me.

billrd said:
I agree, but how can they tell? It's not from excessive data usage, at least for me.
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I've heard of a number ways they can do this, no one really know for sure they just know they can. One is that each device you connect has a unique identifier so they know its not your phone connecting. Another is that with TMo and AT&T in particular all the tethering apps used to use an APN just for tethering and AT&T monitors that APN for traffic to make sure you paid for it. Some wifi tethering apps try to avoid this by not using that APN. I've also read speculation that its the browsers themselves you use that give you away as they have unique identifier strings they send out with each request. This last one maybe the same thing I mentioned first, in that even the same browser on a different device will have different identifiers. So if you use chrome on the phone and on the desktop they will show up as two different devices giving you away.

kzoodroid said:
Because you are using too much data. Their montly 4G plans are capped at a maximum 5GB per month, says it right on their website, after that they throttle you down to 2G speeds.They can also see the unique ip address of everything your tethering, some tethering apps say they can hide the address or at least spoof it so it looks like its coming just from the phone, but if you still use too much data your screwed.
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The whole point of the Monthly 4G plans with the 5GB cap is to tether.

Like i said i could still tether with the clockwork mod app, so whatever its doing (im guessing adding vpn's and stuff on the computer) is working, then i set my chrome browser UA to desktop mode Nexus 4 Chrome. Sometimes if you are not using the UA string, ittl show you the tmobile page. I don't know but kudos to magenta, there method works when you actually get flagged (which im guessing not many do...)