Surely there is some way to configure this on Windows. I’m so unfamiliar with Windows software anymore, but I’m sure that any firewall worth it’s salt would be able to increase the TTL on outbound packets.

iptables on my laptop (not tethered, but using the phone’s wifi hotspot). I don’t even have a jailbroken android phone anymore because my banking app stopped working on custom ROMs and fighting with it wasn’t a good use of my time.

This is correct. I pay for the unlimited plan with Verizon, but it only has 5GB of hotspot data. I use an iptables rule to increment the TTL by one, giving me unlimited data on my laptop.

T-Mobile used to work the same way when I used it back in 2016.

Out of curiosity, what sort of issues were/are you having with it?

People love shitting on Purism on Reddit for whatever reason. Maybe they’re right? But I bought a Librem 14, use it as my daily driver, and I love it. I even had a problem with it after more than a year of use which Purism promptly fixed for no charge whatsoever. My experience with the company has been nothing but positive.

Oh wow, this is great! Thanks.