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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They can detect you using your phone as hotspot? Creepy.
The phone reports it, yeah, it is creepy. Should be illegal to even have the knowledge to differentiate.
TTL is a part of TCP/IP.
Sometimes it's based on the TTL of packets. TTL for hotspot clients will be one less than TTL for directly using data on the phone, since the phone is acting as a router, which adds an extra hop.
I think running a HTTP proxy or VPN server on the phone would mask it (since the connections would then be made by the phone directly), but I've never tried.
Android phones don't share VPN connections through the hotspot
Ahh - that's unfortunate. A HTTP proxy should work though.
It's not hard to detect when the standard includes the phone indicating what it's doing to the carrier.
Very creepy.
My provider used MTU as a reference. I simply changed it in hotspot settings and was happy about that