I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot.
I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot.
What is the difference between cellular data being used on my phone and cellular data being used on my notebook? Data is data.
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I've read somewhere that USB tethering bypasses this very easily.
Is easytether still a thing? That app saved my butt several times.
I'm not sure tbh, my ISP doesn't throttle my speed or data when used as a hotspot, luckily, so I didn't have to look into it for a long time.
Does it? Interesting. I'll have to try that. I wonder why?
There used to be other ways to bypass it as well, like PDAnet, rooting, flashing custom OSes, etc.
From what I heard is that a phone used as USB tether identifies as a modem on the computer, and then the traffic is somehow detected differently. I haven't tested this personally though since my ISP doesn't cap or throttle me when using hotpsots.
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Have you tried running a vpn to your phone while tethering?
https://moonpiedumplings.github.io/guides/unrestricted-tethering/
I experimented with it a little bit, but it didn't go anywhere when I discovered my phone already proxies/NATs all my traffic.