When the fuck did a mobile hotspot become something you have to pay extra for?
When the fuck did a mobile hotspot become something you have to pay extra for?
It's my goddamn motherfucking mobile data and MY PHONE. I should be able to use it however I want. My wifi went down because the greedy, cunt-faced shitbags at Comcast stole taxpayer subsidies to enrich themselves instead of actually providing the service we're paying for. I tried to switch to a mobile hotspot and my phone refuses to open one. Everyone responsible for this shit should be fed to alligators locked away in a fucking gulag. We have no rights and live in a corporate plutocracy.
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Isn't a hotspot a hardware feature?
What is this comment section going on about it being a paid feature originally? How did people pay for software restricted hardware?!
Two ways a carrier can restrict this:
- If you buy the phone from your carrier, they can obviously restrict hardware functions that would otherwise be available on that phone.
- If they analyze your traffic, they can try to distinguish between mobile traffic and other traffic and attempt to block non-mobile traffic.
Isn't the second point highly illegal?
No, and that's why people want a net neutrality law.
Your phone uses a different APN for hotspot I think. They can also tell from the packets TTL sometimes.
So?
the second point feels highly suspect as most internet traffic is encrypted these days, and all ISPs could analyze is the domain you're talking too, and the amount of traffic to each
- that's terrible. Thank God India doesn't have carrier locking.
- wtf.
You will own nothing and be oppressed.
Well thanks for that. Good morning to you too.
The hardware isn't restricted, anymore at least. It's usually restricted at the network level. The hotspot uses a different connection. I've been on plans where I can use hotspot, but it just redirects all traffic to a page telling me it's not on my plan, or like on Visible where hotspot traffic is throttled to 5mbps. This also causes hotspot traffic not to go through a VPN if you tried.
Edit: if you're rooted you can bypass this with VPN Hotspot which lets you pass your hotspot through whatever VPN is active
Damn. Orwell must be proud. Or crying.