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.
Idk, but here in the Philippines we don’t have any law that prevents telcos from doing the same, yet literally every telco allows mobile hotspot usage without restrictions or extra charges. Same for almost every other things American telcos do to fuck up their customers. America probably needs more telco company competition.
In the meantime, you can try TetherFi and see if it works for you.
It happened with some companies in recent years I think due to more people working remotely and they decided they might be able to try to capitalize on such capability as an “extra feature” but I think there are some plans that include it in their package (as it was previously, before being decoupled)
The day (North) American people realize: they live just to feed corporations’ greed, lobbying is just legal bribery, their government doesn’t give a flying fuck about them, most developed countries’ offering and protection is miles further away from what they have… they won’t do shit. Because the system works as it’s intended to. Maybe ask to bring American freedom to America? 🦅 🇺🇸
Why would you run such a gimped operating system on a device in your own house? Or like… can’t you just get a phone with a normal system? Why does the ISP even have a say in this? Or do you have to pay them to use your own toilet too? Because that is equally as absurd
I didn’t know they were going to fuck with my OS in that way when I bought the phone. It’s impossible to keep track of all the different ways various companies are trying to fuck me over from every angle at all times.
When I was living in the UK 10 years ago, the 3 mobile company actually blocked anyone from tethering on their network, not sure if this is still the case. They had a banging unlimited data package that was very popular, but they realised pretty quickly that unlimited data + tethering was a recipe for financial ruin so they tightened the noose and stopped it.
Not just living in the US. I’m thinking they’re on some legacy plan where just using mobile hotspots were extra.
On my kind of old t-mobile plan, I can use hotspot. And when I was a grandfathered Verizon plan I could use it too. Same with the MVNO I played around with a few months ago.
There are limits though, which is BS. But just using it to get through a temporary residential internet outage is included in a lot of plans in the US.
This is only the case if you buy a phone from your carrier (that they’ve customized to disable hotspot without you paying extra) instead of from a phone manufacturer directly. Carriers doing that isn’t as common outside the US, but it’s not an inherently location-based thing. I’m in the US and (due to buying phones from the manufacturer) I can use mobile hotspot without paying any extra even though my carrier would normally require that.
I’m a little late, but I have an unlocked s20+, and I can’t use tethering either. I’ve tried on numerous networks. I have to use workarounds. From my research my phone is not the only one that has this issue. Apparently oneplus and google phones can do it though.
No clue if this will work for you or not, but there are a few things you might try.
Increase the TTL for packets on your computer from 64->65 or from 128->129. It makes it harder for them to tell that the traffic isn’t coming to the phone.
If you can live with USB tethering and also do #1, I have had zero problems. And got much better speeds than with any hotspot.
If the OS is blocking this then… yeah sorry… join the Free World and get a custom ROM.
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What phone do you use?
Samsung
And have you bought it from a carrier, or directly from Samsung/retailer?
Carrier.
Well, that explains a lot. Samsung is in bed with telcos.
it doesn’t matter, even if you have a custom rom thay would know anyway.
it has to do with APN.
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Idk, but here in the Philippines we don’t have any law that prevents telcos from doing the same, yet literally every telco allows mobile hotspot usage without restrictions or extra charges. Same for almost every other things American telcos do to fuck up their customers. America probably needs more telco company competition.
In the meantime, you can try TetherFi and see if it works for you.
It happened with some companies in recent years I think due to more people working remotely and they decided they might be able to try to capitalize on such capability as an “extra feature” but I think there are some plans that include it in their package (as it was previously, before being decoupled)
It’s been this way for over a decade with AT&T
It has been that way since December 2017 (likely took effect in 2018) with the repeal of net neutrality.
It was like this far earlier than that
The day (North) American people realize: they live just to feed corporations’ greed, lobbying is just legal bribery, their government doesn’t give a flying fuck about them, most developed countries’ offering and protection is miles further away from what they have… they won’t do shit. Because the system works as it’s intended to. Maybe ask to bring American freedom to America? 🦅 🇺🇸
I’m an American and I support this message.
Canadian and I concur
Sagittarius and I wholeheartedly agree
Just use USB tethering my dude
Good god… That’s utter horse shit
I use EasyTether to use my unlimited data as a USB hotspot for my PC. Works like a charm but requires a bit of setup in the developer settings.
Why would you run such a gimped operating system on a device in your own house? Or like… can’t you just get a phone with a normal system? Why does the ISP even have a say in this? Or do you have to pay them to use your own toilet too? Because that is equally as absurd
I didn’t know they were going to fuck with my OS in that way when I bought the phone. It’s impossible to keep track of all the different ways various companies are trying to fuck me over from every angle at all times.
When we lost the first fight for net neutrality.
Your problem seems to be that you are residing in the U.S
When I was living in the UK 10 years ago, the 3 mobile company actually blocked anyone from tethering on their network, not sure if this is still the case. They had a banging unlimited data package that was very popular, but they realised pretty quickly that unlimited data + tethering was a recipe for financial ruin so they tightened the noose and stopped it.
Not just living in the US. I’m thinking they’re on some legacy plan where just using mobile hotspots were extra.
On my kind of old t-mobile plan, I can use hotspot. And when I was a grandfathered Verizon plan I could use it too. Same with the MVNO I played around with a few months ago.
There are limits though, which is BS. But just using it to get through a temporary residential internet outage is included in a lot of plans in the US.
This is only the case if you buy a phone from your carrier (that they’ve customized to disable hotspot without you paying extra) instead of from a phone manufacturer directly. Carriers doing that isn’t as common outside the US, but it’s not an inherently location-based thing. I’m in the US and (due to buying phones from the manufacturer) I can use mobile hotspot without paying any extra even though my carrier would normally require that.
I’m a little late, but I have an unlocked s20+, and I can’t use tethering either. I’ve tried on numerous networks. I have to use workarounds. From my research my phone is not the only one that has this issue. Apparently oneplus and google phones can do it though.
I’m in the US and don’t have to pay to do this. They tried to charge for it like 10 years ago but I’ve never seen it attempted since.
Sounds like it’s OPs carrier.
It was always an extra paid option for me back in the day. Had to jailbreak the phone to use it. These days it’s just available now for free.
Canadians might have some of the shittiest service and prices in the world, but at least we don’t pay extra to hotspot?
It’s included in the exorbitant price 🫥
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No clue if this will work for you or not, but there are a few things you might try.