Ok, it is now 3-14-2020, Ive been chasing this since last summer. Editors Note:Before you use these tricks, make sure you dont abuse them. Last week I tried all these methods when my connection got throttled: Dun=0, trial version of TunnelBear VPN, Default TTL to 65 via regedit, and now Ive found success with PdaNet via USB. Jay you are partially right on the filter system but thats because of the flagging system TheY use now and I understand ALL about pfsense but its limits are horrid use Ubuntu server or its flip off sent yal if you want gui I prefer my own build though. And at least so far. Nano is not a language, but I get what you mean. For most things editting the ttl covers it completely, Proof Hope this helps, good luck! They are for multiple devices,kinda, they have different decreperanies in a full bundle within the overrides section. I appreciate your contribution to the article. It uses NetShare app which works very well. Technically, you can set any TTL value between the minimum and maximum parameters. [GUIDE] Increase your Nexus 4's system partition for more space! The only modification in the copied firewall command was changing the TTL to 66 The TTL stuff worked on my Windows laptop. But dont kid yourselves: Tmobile can see the total monthly data youre using as well as GB per hour. I think maybe search for places to set sysctl values, or places to put startup scripts or commands. but im at 12 GB of data being shown used on my phone data and 3 gb of hotspot, but if i go into data usage it shows 12 GB of hotspot been used. With that said, the tricks I have below arent going to offer you truly unlimited tethering data either because that 28GB soft-cap will result in T-Mobile slowing you down if you go over in one billing cycle. Ubuntu 18.04 system and an unrooted LG G7 ThinQ. Append:I don't have either of the "files"(if it's or anything else in this tree is even a file) you mentioned. If I use a ubuntu setup, will my MB per second speed increase? And "TTL" (time-to-live) is one of the strongest hints of all. The minimum available TTL is usually 30, equivalent to 30 seconds. Noticed a BIG DECREASE in speed: 6 mb/sec download vs. 45 mb/sec download with my prior configuration. If I enter adb shell lower case it says error: device not found null no idea why its not working. and to answer question it says lte in corner. You could do it though as it doesnt flag red only yellow on tmob/met, for now. Just gonna say again some phone might not work, noth can be done for that. I got a tablet, & I wanna share the internet with it. But the device Wi-Fi hotspot is sloooooow. We had good luck with the different methods listed in the article, for a few months. Exactly. Will report back. OS Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation Also your comment on being on a custom rom, I am on a custom rom, do you mean i should flash an aosp rom, the rom I am on is touchwiz based. Not to differ people from this method, which I disagree with for many reasons, because it is a valid method. First it sets the interface, that is fine but not really necessary also it sets the interface as the modem which is slightly different than tethering. C. I keep it on because others on my network can turn into bandwidth hogs (playing videos, etc) so I put myself at the front the line w/ QOS rules. Will the VPN method work with any VPN service? @Mildew Thats what I was saying is u think you are in the newest one. Not a roadblock just a detour for our means of completion. That is 1G of tethering and unlimited Mobil data. Thats odd debugging sometimes uses a different driver but Ive never heard of doing it like this. Keys to speed, I make sure I have a good signal and even bought a cell signal booster for 99bucks on ebay and it helps a lot to get a solid signal. I have no problem with other mobile devices connecting to my Nexus 5x, just supper slow on my desktop. I will help you though. at android.os.Binder.onTransact(Binder.java:492) a vpn would encrypt the packets that prevents an ISP from knowing whether data is from a PC, phone, or other device. (Mobile only sites) you can also change a few strings in the pea net code to fix that but the steps are there to help hide usage. But not flashing. I only use VPN when Im using bittorrent. I doubt it, that seems to be a direct limit on all usage, if say you were limited to only one device on a broadband connection, you could use ttl edits to hide how many devices are connected to the endpoint, but total bandwidth is something you can not fake. So I dont think its actually pushing through. It was still totally HD streamable, but with a stronger signal its definitely faster and better now. PIA has a Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android client which just works. Im not really sure which bundle to push. When I ping my local IP, should I not see 68 now? To each there own. Currently on metro 28.3. NO the speed will remain full speed within a Meg or two unlike youre Windows set up. Neither one would allow a connection to be shared. How is an internal vpn relating to your hotspot as far as hiding data?? a user agent switcher doesnt really help much anymore, if you tried it via command prompt go back and check the registry settings to make sure it stuck, for some reason it doesnt always apply, -i would recommend that you use a custom rom. Got Zenmate VPN ($42/2 YRS) and also Easytether Pro for less than PDANet and now back up and running. But I want to just wifi hotspot tether without cable and not get tracked. at com.android.providers.settings.SettingsProvider.mutateGlobalSetting(U Have you tired adding to /etc/config/network -. Security exception: Permission denial: writing to settings requires:android.perm Then double click it and add value 65 as hexadecimal. Navigate to Network Firewall Custom Rules. DEVICE TTL fiy, the command prompt way, doesnt always work for some reason, so if it doesnt just manually edit the registry to change the ttl. Its an old deal that isnt available anymore. As far as PDAnet being listed as using almost all the datasame thing on my phone. Its what I got working first. I have done NO MODS AT ALL to phone. We just have to find something to edit the bundle with before you push it, like the guy in the post did. I Tried sysctl net.ipv4.ip_default_ttl=65 but after reboot it goes back to 64. JavaScript is disabled. # Then change all of the TTL values to what you need and then delete the #s at their lines beginning. The TTL value is set by a system default value which is an 8-bit . On metropcs with a good signal 3-4 bars 4g phoneI usually get 20-30Mbs. Thanks! T-Mobile CEO John Legere has announced his intention to go after Network Abusers who are using as much as 2 TB of data and are circumventing T-Mobiles throttling and data caps. Any links you would suggest for modify the UA strings so they appear to come from the phone, you just need to append them at the back with some basic cellphone identifers and then set ip the box as a proxy server seting tthe ttl as data passes through. Firmware: 384.10_2. Cant remember model names but they go something like n52, n56 etc etc itll be listed in the carrier files. Verizon uses deep packet inspection and looks at more than just TTL so that may be all the speed you can get. I have a Windows machine and Metro PCS is my phone service provider (t-mobile PAYG). I use it because of the speeds, latency, and ease on phone. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. [PATCH 0/7] Add the Renesas USBF controller support Would the PdaNet driver do this? Im using the Router in a AP setting rather than Repeater Bridge. I downloaded the file on the jb. Any ping that runs through the router. I was told a vpn might help but I didnt know if a vpn would work if enabled on my phone, and I was hopping it would speed wifi Direct. Forgot all about this. Im not saying you didnt have dial up speeds in your case, all im saying is that it is perfectly possible to have speeds above that when teathering and past 26GB, It seems to be a fairly soft throttle yeah my data seems to have a much larger variance in speeds after 26GB but they certainly dont throttle it to heck, and as me and some other users on XDA, and Andriod forums determined with packet sniffers and messing around TTL in the main and for the most part only way that traffic is being glaged as hotspot data currently, and the best Android tethering apps do just that edit ttl along with a few other edits to the header to get ps3 / ps4 data hidden. Anyone out there struggling just d/load == PDA NET and EASY TETHER and you are well on your way. C:\Windows\system32>netsh int ipv4 set glob defaultcurhoplimit=100 For the Win 10 computer I made the registry edit post by JcWarez in this thread. I dont know either. Now with phone.. Well, I don't have the understanding of linux to find the right config and change it. Pash thats because you are going through fast, alpha, or beta channel instead of the pcweb channel. Is that grey AREA? can you enlighten me please?? The hard part was changing the firmware of an ASUS RT-N66U router I bought for this project. I was reading recently about DPI and someone manage to bypass the restriction using something like VDS, I couldn't read more because it was in Russian and google translate messed up the translation TTL Settings - Throttling, Tethering and Hotspot Usage, LTE FIX- The Wireless Haven Online Store, WiFi and Cellular 'Plug and Play' Routers, Buy & Sell Used Cellular Internet Equipment, Cellular Frequency and Bands Used by Carriers, Customized ROOter Firmware for Routers, Nighthawks MR1100 - MR5200 (M1M5), TTL Settings - Throttling, Tethering and Hotspot Usage, https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?p=10303#p10303. Actually I just gave it another try and so far from what I can tell i got it working! honestly if your rooted with a recovery installed i would just backup your rom and install a custom one, that should work out of the box with just the ttl edit and it it doesnt work you can just restore the back up, its hard to know whats been done with the default rom that marks the data. Well, I solved the issue of being masked, but now Im throttled while on the VPN connection. Win7 65 (registry regedit described by jcwarez above) I am personally intrigued by your situation and your numbers. It was bricked at some point in time. After tweaking the registry you need to restart the system. Connect your phone to your computer via USB cable. first step is to figure out why it wont except your bundle. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Activiated VPN in iOS. The first method didnt work for meI have an LG Aristo for T-Mobile (Not MetroPCS brand) with the $45 unlimited monthly prepaid plan and Ive tried the first step with the dun=0 thing and Im able to get into adb shell settings on my Windows 7 64-bit laptop via command prompt (had to install it by downloading the 1.3 version of adb tools since the latest version 1.4.3 didnt work for me) but I get this error after I type in settings put global tether_dun_required 0 and press enter http://imgur.com/fQNSP9K (please ignore the blank user lol I just edited that out during screenshot) can someone tell me what Im doing wrong? Mangling causes issues with utilities like traceroute. -As I stated before; with the way a VPN works, to my knowledge, you HAVE to run the VPN on the phone.-. I presume whatever VPN work-around that used to work, doesnt work anymore. Fair enough. End pf the story unless is a huge city also with under served amounts of towers it is unlikely you will go under 8Mb/s the lowest i ever have to deal with. So far using hundreds of GBs and getting totally usable speeds.low end maybe 7-8MBS at worst and usually around 18-25Mbssometimes even 30+Mbs depending on how busy the network is. By using a TTL of "65" and a VPN. Thanks. Tried the registry method Default TTL to 65, not working. If I could find a way to cast off the hotspot device to the tv that would work but so far I havent found a solution to do that . Interestingly enough though, it appeared T-mobile was sniffing the header because the throttling went away when I used a user-agent switcher to spoof the desktop Chrome browser as a mobile android version of itself. Free shipping for many products! Sidechula I may have got confused (its not hard.) I have done NO MODS TO MY COMPUTER. Ping anything else and the ttl could pretty much be anything! I have used 0G of the 8G hot spot use because I use the usb option with PdaNet+ to hook to my computers. I managed to get around it using same trick for a few hours until I was throttled again. Netflix 4K slurps down so much data, I would be nervous a manual review might be tripped. Get a free OPPO Find N2 Flip when you become a product ambassador. With a router? I was very impressed. also the only reason to use a ubuntu server(this can be any pc/laptop, its just acting as a server) is its easier to edit the data coming through, you dont need to know anything other then how to enter a string of text into a terminal, or at worst use vi/vim to edit a file so the config is saved permanently if you dont want to re enter it ever time the computer is rebooted, it 10-30mins of research max. I did a manual update of the driver. Im gonna do some device testing and will have to do this myself also. Im using a QLED now with no screen lag and hard wired. Tried trial version of TunnelBear VPN, not working. Like you Austin, I live in the county a few miles away from a large city, and chances I will ever see a fiber line ran to my house is zilch. Assuming you have a puter what are you running?? Otherwise incoming wont properly work (usually no big deal) and your out going ttl would be off. Still very usable. No reboot means old cache with old ip info which causes a lockup a few minutes into the vpn session when the cache is accessed. I also tried the tmobile higher 28.4 ipcc, renamed it to the metro file name format and still nothing. Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help, and unmark the answers if they provide no help. Had gotten by a few weeks with PDAnet+editing ttl trick until metropcs started tracking my data usage after I used up 30gb of 8gb plan and then throttled me. This all assumes phone is direct connected to router. [GUIDE] Increase your Nexus 4's system partition for more space! Shiny objects everywhere! so far so good, but im waiting on the troll, so b4 anyone calls BS theres the puddin.. Speedtest this is with seti@home running and going thru my VPN server on my mint box, NOT PHONE, ps Again, thanks for the great start. All of my carrier files have broken signitures. I have one for each. Yes, the file you pushed to the other phone should solve this as soon as you may post it. 300+ is only possible if your using a tower supporting that speed, also 300Mbs is the limit of the spec, and i doubt that any higher would be achieved on lte(outside a some custom mu-mimo solution), thats going to have to wait for the 5g roll out, and the largest part of the whole network is 100Mbs or less out side of a few huge cities. Cost me absolutely nothing except for the occasional expensive thank-you gift. I have done this in reverse with only issues of opening ports because of t-mobiles external point no filtering. In some conditions, we need to change the TTL value to 65. The system can obviously handle it, it costs no one anything due to deprioritization, and those who expect the best speeds who use less than heavy users get prime speeds. Do you think there's chance it will work if value set on boot? you are repeating the exact same thing i said, it has a slow cpu amd low amounts of ram, you clearly arent reading what i say and assuming what i mean, case and point, wifi only slows down when its the limiting factor, a rarity even for lte (the average speed of lte on T-Mobile is around 18Mbs) the only real lose is 3-8Ms latency not a huge toll for the convenience, also for all your talk of servers you are likely confusing others, anything can be a server and you are coming off like you mean a rack mount, all i am doing is giving options to people (of which there a multiple) from the simplest of just editing the ttl of the end point, to the simplest that would allow a whole network to run off it using a router, to the most rebust a pf sense box or linux based machine, all you have done is repet somthing i said on this forum 8 months agoand saying it is the only way that makes sense not having a understanding that for most it doesnt matter either because of usecase or because the towers in their area couldnt even give them more if they wanted, not everyone needs a pc running 24/7 and 90% of the people that have visited this forum could never see any bandwidth benefit from running a server anyhow. There are many pros to running a server setup as well. @jay & @ Mildew Lets keep the conversation focused on helping the readers. I found success with pdanet via usb, but it would be nice to ditch the cord. You'll need to explain. Thing is that even if you get a quality phone you really have to research it and the builds carefully. Sebagai contoh ketika kita membutuhkan pengaturan jaringan dimana koneksi hanya bisa dilakukan dengan satu perangkat saja. The only other thing I could see is an extremely far stretch and makes no sense at all for countless reasons but if the carrier somehow lowers their out going hop count when a Vpn is involved but I use expressVPN on my gaming network so it would make even less sense for them to somehow only target PIA. C:\Users\12345nanananana>adb shell PIA was around $40 for a years worth of service. With the sever Im doing most of the processing and routing Before the modem you are thinking strait speed but continuously seem to forget strain on device and other variables. Get a free OPPO Find N2 Flip when you become a product ambassador. in a rc.local file, or maybe there's a /etc/sysctl.conf file you can modify the net settings in. I did run the vpn on the phone, then I tried it on the pc. For my set up I have to do 2 things for it to work on T-Mobile unlimited. My honest guess is you have the newest one for your device. the router anyhow with a powerline adapter to a get 100Mb p/s connection out to my shed, honestly not having a issue with my setup at all. I have been reading here and there about TTL, but what other setting, configuration and more we need to consider in order to hide successfully our data consumption from the hotspot monthly allotment. You'd need root to disable this and NAT/route via the primary rmnet interface. I checked registry and the ttl stuck. Also I am using a custom rom based on the s8 DR Ketan. I made a test again on my Windows 10 Enterprise machine and ping this machine. If its highspeed your out of luck. You show me a strait phone or router that can run under 20 latency, over 90 dn, over 30 up for hours on end without hick ups hot phones or a jittery connection graph, with the average phone. This has been my setup for four years now: Dd-wrt with iptables to edit the ttl value to 65 The maximum TTL that you can apply is 86,400 (24 hours). How did you verify the TTL settings? -o get_wanface portion of the code. Is there any other ways of how to bypass this? Only method working for me is connect cable and fire up pdanet on my rooted note 5. At least for me. Bypass ISP Block with TTL - Network and Wireless Configuration at com.android.providers.settings.SettingsProvider.enforceWritePermissio My connection speed is 8Mbps for first 30GB and then 512kbps thereafter (and they call it a broadband con3ction?!?!?! nd(Unknown Source:619) I understand you need a USB cable to enable these hacks but is the USB cable necessary for the actual tethering? When you view it there will be the carrier.plist that is the generic carrier settings but at the bottom it has settings for each individual model. Did you write it or pull it from somewhere?? Wether or not it is possible to force the tablet not decrease TTL? However, with 4K, youve got quadruple the pixel count, so youre burning through 18.8GB/hour. Be sure to click MORE and choose 4G for your network. It is capable of shuttling hundreds of megabits per second and it is efficient. As I think about it though youre caged so when you hooked it up to iTunes IF there was a newer version that you could use it would have prompted you to update. [/quote] Also was using PDANet+ for years but all of a sudden looks like TMO can now see. I am running a Zmax Pro, and every thing i have tried on the root side was a no go. I hope it really is that simple. If its on the same, Windows, unit then its not going to be affected by the router but it sounds like you would have caught that by the way you present your self. Going through the Win 7 computer cuts the speed in half. Fastboot is kind of a little bit more limited with flashing, although it was enough to brick the phone after i flashed an inappropriate kernel or something. I think it is b1300 and a newer phone with more bands (nexus 4 had to be hacked to enable lte and only on band 4). Im gonna try to find a way for you to edit youre bundle without the need to find someone with a jailbroken device. Nexus 5x, tmobile unlimited w 1G tethering. by gscheb Sun Aug 29, 2021 5:11 pm, Post Mobile phones use a TTL of 65, and it's ond of the ways carriers know you're using cellular or hotspot. That is why I wanted to know if PdaNet to hide tether usage works with a router. This hack wont matter once I upgrade my Wi-Fi network card to a wifi6/wpa3 compatible model. It might, since it would be set before wifi comes up. o PIA VPN That must have been in the dark ages. Like I said I use the dd-wrt/iptables and apn option. No doubt, youve greatly improved the article and helped many readers. I tried this, and it didnt seem to work. I have LG phone. If it doesnt have the drivers for android you can add them. I pop in every now and then when someone bumps the thread. If you dont recommend the PC left on all the time, what would you recommend. I'm sure theres something you can change. Im 99% sure that wanface is the Ethernet isnt wan interface only. o iOS 9.3.5 All is good again in router world. If so you just need to find the 3 digit model code for the SE and make sure its included in the bundle. I had tried to tell him, in one of my known and attested failures at diplomacy, to just shut up.). They didn't warn me. As long as Im connected by USB (PDAnet) only, I get the full unrestricted 20 to 30+ mbs. but as far as my windows box still burning up data with no usage on account. assuming outgoing traffic passes through ether1 to your ISP. He oft complains about, lousy rural internet, out here where I live among cows. (He is currently enjoying, by my clocking, ~6Mbps, whilst I had been so-called communicating with him at my 262 kbps. DEVICE TTL Are you positive that its even actually pushing to the phone?? Thats fair to me.people under 35GB usage get full speed and heavy 35GB + users get lower priority but still not a real throttle and still totally useable high speed as far as Im concerned. Activated User Agent switcher in Chrome. As I cant think of a way to delete them off of a caged phone, the only thing I can think of is to overwrite it THEN currupt the Sig because your current bundle will then be gone, due to being over written. I dont know what else to do. But if thats true why are you setting you ttl all of the way to 70?? Bufferbloat another important reason to enable QOS on your DD-WRT router (see #4 in bufferbloat explanation below) The implication being full speed and priority tethering without a plan that you can share with the house. OS Configuration: Standalone Workstation Works for Window 7 desktop and laptop, chromebook, and tablets. at com.android.providers.settings.SettingsProvider.enforceWritePermissio From there you should have the settings you seek. I also have the same setup, but more compact, in my car and never have to play with it either. Thus, data leaving the phone will have a TTL of 64. ~Since youve already edited/corrupted the metro bundle for iso11, why not upload and post it? The solution has fucking killed me. Please try to change with different values to have a check. Name: DefaultTTL Only deprioritization. NEW Godox TT350F Camera Speedlite Flash TTL 2.4G HSS 1/8000S Step 1) On your windows computer/laptop, open a new command prompt as administrator. Ive already gone past my 4GB a month limit and are now being throttled at 2g speeds as we speak, I really need someway to bypass this if its not too late and would appreciate some help. http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Iptables#Modifying_the_TTL. Im using Merlin-WRT, not DD-WRT, so I dont know if that makes a difference? the xbox now apears as a windows pc, its download speeds were back down to 600kbps and 60ms ping. Thanks for sharing. Would you kindly explain what you are trying to achieve / why you want to change the TTL? I never get much more then 30Mb/s myself because im on metropcs. I have an iPhone on the T-Mobile One plan. Reboot, connect phone to computer, turn on USB tether, go into Network settings on Windows 7 computer, and then share the USB network connection to the LAN. If I can fly under their radar using 300 GB monthly for all my devices, it still beats a 30GB limit. I am currently using Zentyal 5.0 (based on Ubuntu server 16.0.4.2) and changed the usual lines in its led to mangle the ttl in the fly like I did on dd-wrt. Mildew , its straight LTE unlimited on the phone just like T-mobile except T-mobile might throttle you during peak hours or network congestion at about 32 gig . And Ive tried changing the proxy(Nothing happened) Ive also tried PdaNet (Nothing happened), Dun=0 method isnt working: Getting this message on ADB shell(error: device unauthorized. I tried easytether pro and got slightly faster speeds and the big difference for me was that it almost never disconnects. [quote] ), Do I have enter Next go to the CUSTOM RULE (top of page) and copy the two lines between #startTTL and #endTTL. You must log in or register to reply here. If I where to recommend a set up , I would have to say go for the the Netgear Nighthawk r7000 and flash it with the latest Kong build of dd-wrt. The same just change the number to 128, not that it matters the internet does not care so long as your TTL is above 32, does your phone have issues using the internet over wifi? Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Well show you three ways to get what you paid for while using mobile data on your PC. I need about 20 to 30 gig a month for my home network to survive . With VPN on, if I try to use Netflix, it hangs up. There is a possibility that T-Mobile devices have a flag sent before a teathering session and somehow mark data from the wlan interface but i would not know since i use either unlocked devices or one that can be flashed to aosp. [/code]. What is the command prompt to get settings back to default?