How to tether without getting caught?

[vinunleaded182]

I'm currently running on Shostock 4.1.1. I use to be an AT&T rep for 3 years until September of 2011. Before I quit, I noticed a lot of cases where AT&T took away people's unlimited plans because of illegal tethering. Needless to say I stopped tethering since then.

My question is, is there a way to tether without getting caught by AT&T? I only need to do this for 2 days on my road trip

 

[nh5]

VPN, or I heard some people use a different APN.

 

[bubuty]

Agree. I think different apn is needed.

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[Phalanx7621]

I thought most roms we have here already have the tethering enabled and allowed and the settings configured so we wouldn't get caught? I dunno I use it all the time and never had any problems.
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[Hunt3r.j2]

As long as the TTL of the wifi hotspot app is set to be the same as the phone, it's impossible to have definitive evidence.

 

[fldude99]

As long as the TTL of the wifi hotspot app is set to be the same as the phone, it's impossible to have definitive evidence.

How would one know this?

 

[jbryson16]

I'm currently running on Shostock 4.1.1. I use to be an AT&T rep for 3 years until September of 2011. Before I quit, I noticed a lot of cases where AT&T took away people's unlimited plans because of illegal tethering. Needless to say I stopped tethering since then.

My question is, is there a way to tether without getting caught by AT&T? I only need to do this for 2 days on my road trip

Sorry for kind of being off topic but you have an unlimited plan with att? How is that?

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[thatbigmoose]

Sorry for kind of being off topic but you have an unlimited plan with att? How is that?

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He's grandfathered into it from during the iPhone 3G days.

 

[MotoMudder77]

As long as the TTL of the wifi hotspot app is set to be the same as the phone, it's impossible to have definitive evidence.

Uhh? screw that
run a custom ROM.
and tether to your hearts desire.
been doing that for a while, tho I'd love an unlimited plan

 

[adfurgerson]

PdaNet is USB tethering that claims to mask your other device. I also thought another developer was working on this,might has been Chainfire.

 

[morganblackstone]

"Pda net" plus "Fox fi" (both of the apps for Fox fi)...won't work on jellybean, but works great on ics, haven't been caught in the past year so far...it uses the phone apn instead of the tethering one, i believe that's how it works, so att only sees you using phone data

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[pcamlin]

I've just been using the tether option from jellybean release and Rogers hasn't charged me anything. Granted I am on the internet.com apn.

 

[Nick281051]

I've just been using the tether option from jellybean release and Rogers hasn't charged me anything. Granted I am on the internet.com apn.

Rogers? I don't believe Rogers has a version of our phone unless it is unlocked, i could be wrong though

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[RockRatt]

I was wondering WHY and HOW ATT can still be charging for it? Courts recently ruled in a Verizon case that they HAD TO offer free tethering on ALL plans. I will have to look up the link but I am sure I read it in yahoo news. So if that is the case and a judge declared it, then HOW can ATT get away with it. Your paying for you 2Gb, 3Gb, or like in my case Unlimited data plan. So if you use YOUR DATA up to what you pay for (2Gb/3Gb data) it should NOT MATTER HOW YOU USE IT. PERIOD...

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Here are some links to what happened. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57...ns-fcc-tethering-settlement-means-to-you-faq/
http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=230212

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[Phalanx7621]

Hell yeah thanks Rock I didn't know any of this!

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[CallMeAria]

I was wondering WHY and HOW ATT can still be charging for it? Courts recently ruled in a Verizon case that they HAD TO offer free tethering on ALL plans. I will have to look up the link but I am sure I read it in yahoo news. So if that is the case and a judge declared it, then HOW can ATT get away with it. Your paying for you 2Gb, 3Gb, or like in my case Unlimited data plan. So if you use YOUR DATA up to what you pay for (2Gb/3Gb data) it should NOT MATTER HOW YOU USE IT. PERIOD...

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---------- Post added at 09:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:39 PM ----------

Here are some links to what happened. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57...ns-fcc-tethering-settlement-means-to-you-faq/
http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=230212

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This does not and will not affect ATT's tethering in any way. Verizon had an agreement when they bought access to their 4G baseband. The lawsuit was because they broke that agreement. In addition, it was a settlement, not a court ruling. This is not the case with ATT. Sorry guys.

 

[runtohell121]

I heard that tethering to laptops/desktop/computer in general is easier to get caught than tethering to a tablet. If you use a lot of data by tethering to a computer, AT&T might find out easily compared to if you're tethering to a tablet.

 

[kletiz]

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...XiIE3rBibtbSh-reA&sig2=kjGWp6sPEnpsVk78QBTy4Q

I use that plus tigervpns to be extra safe....

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[adfurgerson]

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...XiIE3rBibtbSh-reA&sig2=kjGWp6sPEnpsVk78QBTy4Q

I use that plus tigervpns to be extra safe....

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Thank you, this is the one I couldn't remember.

 

[Nosferatu.]

I got the warning once when using my iPhone back in the day with MyWi.

I have yet to get caught (knock on wood) using the Galaxy S2 on my grandfathered unlimited plan. I've used it a handful of time (road trip Slingbox on my laptop for streaming TV and in airports waiting for a plane).

What I've done on the PC end is disable anything that would try and access the internet other than the web browser. If your computer is let's say...looking for Windows Updates that's pretty obvious it's not coming from a phone. So that's one of a few services I disable when I opt to tether the laptop to the phone.

Been doing this for a year now and okay (/knocks on wood/)