[rlyshw]

Sorta related;

I often travel for work and was having an annoying time with Verizon’s hotspot throttling. 4G LTE should be able to run at ~5Mbps but devices connected to the hotspot get throttled down to an insufferable 400Kbps. This was super annoying and felt like an arbitrary action on Verizon’s part. I found out I could run a SOCKs proxy on my iPhone via a Pythonista script and tunnel hotspot connections through it to fool Verizon’s throttling systems. Worked great, even though the UX of launching a Pythonista script as a service and pointing clients to it was slightly clunky.

[SilverRed]

Apparently they detect hotspot usage using the IP TTL value. If its 1 lower than expected, then it knows there was an extra hop. If you know how, you should be able to just bump up the TTL value sent from your device.

[philshem]

Some mobile providers have two distinct APNs (access point names) - one for mobile data and one for tethering. In this case, you can rename the tethering one to the mobile data one.

[breckenedge]

I do love me some Pythonista, but it never occurred to me to run an SSH host in it. I wonder if this would be any easier today using iSH instead.

[rlyshw]

I'll have to look into it! Now that I've got the 5G-UW plan from Verizon, I wonder if I could actually get >1Gbps to my laptop via wired hotspot.

[omgwtfbyobbq]

I think I noticed something similar back in the day with Straight Talk (ATT). Speeds when tethered were much worse than on my phone with most of my modern laptops, but when I tried IE on an old XP install I had I saw significantly faster speeds than my phone/plan were supposed to be capable of.