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Smartphone Tethering: A Bigger Grind Than It Needed to Be

91 点作者 shortformblog8 个月前

15 条评论

somat8 个月前
Wearing my network engineer hat. I was furious when I found out tethering in android was an option that could only be set by the network provider. Why should they get any say if I want to use my phone as a router.<p>So just on principle alone I refuse to pay the tethering tax and tether using terminux and ssh. the usability sucks in comparison to the built in method but at least I get to control my packets.
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seltzered_8 个月前
In 2009-2010, it was rather eye-opening in the US to have an iPhone 3g&#x2F;3gs both jailbroken (to run a tethering app like PDAnet) and unlocked (to use a cheaper GSM provider like T-Mobile instead of AT&amp;T) which required all sorts of particulars like making sure the modem firmware didn&#x27;t get updated.<p>The article doesn&#x27;t quite mention it but back then the other option to get internet on a laptop was a dedicated USB dongle modem or Wifi hub thing.<p>Probably the next &#x27;oh that&#x27;s neat&#x27; moment happened a decade later when usb-c tethering became enabled such that one could tether a whole ethernet network of things to a phone if needed on occasion (e.g. broadband outages, moving to a new home)
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bluedino8 个月前
For some reason I&#x27;ve always romanticized using a laptop + hotspot.<p>This year due to various circumstances, I was going to start using it 24&#x2F;7. I did not, however, because:<p>T-Mobile seems to have an actual, usable and affordable plan. $50&#x2F;month, but they don&#x27;t offer it in my area.<p>Verizon offers 5G home internet and it&#x27;s only $35&#x2F;month (I&#x27;m already a verizon wireless customer). It&#x27;s available in my area, but there aren&#x27;t any slots actually open for it. Their traditional &#x27;Jetpack&#x27; options are $100&#x2F;150GB of data. And using your phone as a hotspot only gives you 60GB of premium data and then you&#x27;re rate limitied.<p>ATT offers Internet Air, but they don&#x27;t have any information on usage other than &quot;In rare cases, if your usage is contributing to congestion on the network, AT&amp;T will greatly reduce your speed for a min. of 30 min&quot;. Previously, their product wasn&#x27;t offered at my address, and they also had disclaimers about not using it for media consumption or commercial use. They also allow 60GB of smartphone tethering and then throttled to 128kbs.
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notjulianjaynes8 个月前
Like 5 years ago I paid $10 for an app called easytether. Drivers for Windows, Mac, Linux you install these and app on your phone. It tunnels all computer traffic through your phone&#x27;s browser so no tethering fees or data caps if you have unlimited phone data. Very simple and when I lived in a rural area it was the choice between that and the hilariously slow&#x2F;overpriced satalite internet (this was pre starlink).
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swozey8 个月前
Ever since 5GUW.. maybe even just 5G, I haven&#x27;t connected to a single wifi connection out working remotely than my phone. It&#x27;s faster than nearly all of the bar&#x2F;coffee&#x2F;cowork wifis nowadays.<p>I have 2GB (for an insane $145ish&#x2F;mo) CenturyLink fiber and it&#x27;s been horrible for the last 3-4 months.<p>With that said, in my city subreddit we have a thread about how there are certain intersections&#x2F;blocks that will kill your Apple Carplay while driving until you&#x27;ve exited the area. Th e running theory is there&#x27;s a big telecom company or a defense contractor right there doing something weird.
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microflash8 个月前
Wow, reading all these comments makes me realise how different it is for other corners of the world compared to US. I have been working remotely with laptop + hotspot for ages. Locking such basic capability seems such a moneygrab.
arittr8 个月前
&gt; I type in binary at about 30 words per minute<p>I’ll just go quit my day job now
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Dwedit8 个月前
I just use TetherFi (from Pyamsoft). Works great, except for wss sockets that do not support connections through proxies.<p>Only hairy part is configuring proxy servers on Windows. For some stupid reason, a proxy configuration script must be served from a website and not a local file. So you need to install a localhost webserver just to serve the proxy configuration script.
kylehotchkiss8 个月前
Here I am waiting for Apple to put a 5g chip in MacBooks. My 5G iPad is one of my favorite tech purchases ever. Always online feels so close. Even the iPhone&#x2F;Macbook tethering thing feels so sloppy and fragile. Half the time I don&#x27;t see my phone in the network list. I don&#x27;t want to have to think about it.
Thoreandan8 个月前
Carriers send tethered traffic out different networks than they do for traffic from the mobile device.<p>Fun side effects: Apps on your phone which, when you&#x27;re on wi-fi, can connect to other apps on the same wi-fi, can&#x27;t.<p>Terrible performance getting to streaming services, when apps running on the device itself talk to them fine.
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renewiltord8 个月前
I just use Google Fi and don&#x27;t think about any of this stuff. International or local. Tethering or not. And it&#x27;s been this way for the better part of a decade. This is like hearing someone talk about how it&#x27;s hard to record a show on VHS.
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rcbdev8 个月前
Another one of many things where EU citizens are blessed with more freedom than Americans.<p>Who knew?
LorenDB8 个月前
I am infuriated that practically every (US) carrier claims an unlimited data plan, but then proceeds to limit your hotspot usage. It&#x27;s just data. Let me use it.<p>Yes, I know about (and sometimes use) the ttl=65 loophole, but I&#x27;d like to see a major carrier launch a truly unlimited plan.
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jauntywundrkind8 个月前
My non-branded customer-provided Samsung S22 recently started being unwilling to turn on hotspotting, respecting some flag for my carrier.<p>You can still workaround by creating a Routine to turn it on, it it was infuriating to run into. Makes me want to go back to running custom roms, but Android SafetyNet keeps making that less and less feasible.<p>I&#x27;m switching carriers, since it seems like writing is on the wall for this important capability for me.
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aidenn08 个月前
I may still have the RS-232 adapter for my ~2004ish flip phone; it presented a Hayes Modem (AT commands) interface for data.