Rate limiting in the Revolution??

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My 4G hits 20 Mbps constantly. I would hate to tether to my PC and hit my data limit in 20 minutes.


Does anyone know if the LG Revolution can be configured to rate limit the download or upload connections? This way I can make sure that I'm not over using it?

If nobody is doing this I will see if I can program it, my skills are a bit rusty though.

Originally Posted by nipslan

My 4G hits 20 Mbps constantly. I would hate to tether to my PC and hit my data limit in 20 minutes.


Does anyone know if the LG Revolution can be configured to rate limit the download or upload connections? This way I can make sure that I'm not over using it?

If nobody is doing this I will see if I can program it, my skills are a bit rusty though.

I'm not sure what you are saying, but just because speedtest shows 20mb/s doesn't mean you are actually doing that while tethered to a computer. The only way is if you are streaming high def movies our downloading heavy files. To keep an eye on data usage you can use the My Verizon app.

For example, I turn on the tether and let a friend and his laptop connect. If he had bittorrent running he could easily max out my usage in less than 1 hour under ideal circumstances.

Currently I don't know of a way to prevent this, trusting my friend may be a mistake. If I had controls on bandwidth and even firewall out some ports/protocols like bittorrent then I wouldn't have to worry at all.

Tell your friend to get his own Internet.... Just sayin... Lol problem solved!

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Bittorrent and a limited data plan don't go together. And yes, your friend could eat up your usage real fast and cause you overage charges.

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Doing this very easily could require Kernel support. Linux obviously supports this ability but is it built into the linux Kernel for Android?

this makes no sense, why would you use a limited data plan and plan on letting people use your phone like this? Wifi tether has a built in log that shows data usage while using tether.