Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac

Re:Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac by unixhero on Monday August 03, 2020 @03:35AM (#24035039)

Couldn't you just use your phone as a mobile hotspot? I do that all the t I'll me instead of relying on whichever local it department coming up with solutions for me.

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Re:Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac by toyg on Monday August 03, 2020 @05:02AM (#24035511)

a lot of phones have this sort of tethering disabled by carriers, who then sell "internet access dongles" as an add-on.

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Re:Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac by MayeulC on Monday August 03, 2020 @06:36AM (#24036108)

This sounds like 2012 to me... And even then, with a rooted phone, you could tether as you pleased. I recall using barnacle wifi tether back when my phone didn't offer it natively.

Another way of using it on Android, is to use USB tethering, while your mobile phone is connected to a Wi-Fi access point. That has worked pretty well for me, I sometimes even use that together with a computer to create a wired network from an access point. It could have worked in GP's case.

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Re:Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac by toyg on Monday August 03, 2020 @08:10AM (#24036673)

> And even then, with a rooted phone

Yes, obviously I'm talking about carrier-locked phones (typically sold with contracts). A lot of (most?) never even unlock their phone, let alone jailbreak.

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Re:Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac by KptMarchewa on Monday August 03, 2020 @07:43AM (#24036473)

How do they do it? How does carrier actually know that traffic is coming from tethered device rather than phone itself?

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Re:Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac by boomlinde on Monday August 03, 2020 @08:03AM (#24036609)

The carrier can inspect TTL (or hop limit in IPv6) values which decrease with every hop, so TTL at the point your packet reaches the carrier is typically lower when you are tethering.

Of course it is easy to circumvent by changing TTL on the terhered device from 64 to 65 or something like that, but I guess the solution is esoteric enough that carriers still make money doing crap like this.

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Re:Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac by unixhero on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:56AM (#24049042)

Thanks for the brilliant analysis.

I didn't know this.

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Re:Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac by toyg on Monday August 03, 2020 @08:09AM (#24036666)

in iOS the whole "mobile hotspot" feature can be disabled in carrier-locked phones.

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Re:Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac by muxator on Monday August 03, 2020 @11:51AM (#24039281)

How do the carriers do it, at the technical level? Do they limit the IP TTL?

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Re:Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac by war1025 on Monday August 03, 2020 @09:13AM (#24037318)

> Couldn't you just use your phone as a mobile hotspot?

At the time I had a 2010-era dumb phone which I only got rid of because Verizon said they were turning off the towers for it at the beginning of this year.

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Re:Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac by david422 on Monday August 03, 2020 @06:19AM (#24036001)

I did this until I switched phones. On my old phone the hotspot worked fine. My new phone- exact same plan, nothing changed there- prompts me to buy the hotspot plan addition. No thanks...

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