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I received my Android tablet and I can confirm that it works quite nicely with my EasyTether / WireGuard setup in a Raspberry Pi. It's not as fast as native tethering was on the iPad but I'm getting between 20 and 30 Mbps most of the time so still not too bad as a $20 per month "unlimited"...

Hello again, Just to double check took the TTL setting off and it is still working without it. So maybe it was just a fluke of coincidences the other day. Started to act up then turning on the TTL in the process something else must have got better. Don't know really Just wanted to report it is work...

If you're using an Android phone or tablet, there's no need to tie up a computer for EasyTether (consequently lose some speed and increase the latency), instead you could tether it directly to a mobile router via USB or WiFi. Here's how to do it: https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?p=10303#p103...

No sorry meant in a hot spot device it started working. But if you are tethering from the tablet try a TTL of 66. Let us know if that works. Unfortunately it doesn't work. I tried several settings including 66. I know my TTL setting works because I use it on Visible. I'm pretty sure it's seeing the...

gscheb wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 12:44 pm Everything you are saying is what I always believed too. But changed the TTL to 65 and bam started working again.

Do you mean that tethering from the tablet came back to full speed?

This started happening to one of the cards I activated so far. Started messing up. Was in a Netgear lb1120. Changed the ttl on the computer started working again. If you are using it on a computer only very easy to change ttl on that computer. Videos on YouTube to do it. Since then wanted to use it...

Or is it? I have the old tablet plan and I can't pull up any page on 'data usage' through my online account that looks like what was posted. That page doesn't look like its from att's 'buyasession' system? It looks more like att's postpaid webpage system. I have both old and new tablet plans and as...

You're right, generally speaking from past experience. Latest rumors are that the ipad plans are starting to track and throttle hotspot usage. It's not 100% across the board, so at this point its baseless rumor, but it is popping up. It's much more than a baseless rumor. This is my standalone table...

Didneywhorl wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 7:42 pm Changing ttl only tricks them into thinking your not using hotspot data versus on tablet data.

I don't think TTL settings achieve anything at all on AT&T.

DogTho wrote: ↑Wed Feb 10, 2021 1:33 pm Look up MVNO, Mobile Virtual Network Operators. That's how it works.

As far as I know, most of the resellers are not MVNOs. I think real MVNOs like Cricket, Mint, Page Plus etc are registered with and regulated by the FCC. Most of the resellers are just small businesses somehow reselling plans.

Question for anyone tethering to an iPad using the AT&T standalone postpaid tablet plan. Are you still getting "unlimited" hotspot data? Someone on Facebook tells me his is throttled after 10 GB. I wonder if this is happening for others. I just ordered it specifically to use for that p...

Yeah it's working for me now. It doesn't like the cellular / VPN I was going through.

The bad news is that my Pepwave which has a MC7455 is no longer compatible.

Does Cricket's IMEI checker actually work for anyone? https://www.cricketwireless.com/cell-ph ... ata-device

For me on Chrome it spins forever and on Firefox it says this:
Oops! We're having trouble processing your request right now. Sorry for the inconvenience. Please try again later.

No, you're not going to jail.

(glasses on now

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Here https://www.cricketwireless.com/legal-info/acceptable-use-policy.html it says: Prohibited SIM Card Uses Your Device uses a Cricket SIM Card to access our data services. You are prohibited from inserting a Cricket SIM Card into a device other than a Cricket authorized phone, smartphone, or table...

LTEGreen wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 12:24 pm Hi Tetranz, would it be alright with you to share which reseller you are using?

Somehow it doesn't feel right for me to promote them here with a direct link. I thought this forum had private messages but I can't see how it works.

Send me an email at my handle here @gmail.com

Leasing lines from individuals that happen to have grandfathered true unlimited plans? Probably at a somewhat reasonable price? Those aren't what I would consider resellers... Nomad, unlimitedville, and the like are the gougers... $150-$200/mo to resell you some 8mbps Cricket plans that you can get...

Didneywhorl wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 2:26 pm Currently the post paid ipad plan doesnt require imei trickery. none.

Why do people do it if it's not necessary?

I'm kind of torn and confused about resellers. I have an account with a reseller. I pay $79 per month for 400 GB on AT&T. I think they're a small business with a brick and mortar computer store. They're now selling at $89 but I think I'm still getting it at $79. Before I signed up I asked and wa...

I don't know if it's relevant but I know when you put a Visible SIM in a Pepwave, you have to tell it in the admin UI "Generic", not "Verizon". I don't know what that does but I just saw in a "similar topics" thread below here this command which I suspect is the same th...

Have you activated it with the app on a phone?
Edit: Sorry if that's a silly question. I guess if the modem sees the phone number you've probably activated it.

Correct APN is VSBLINTERNET.

Are there any reports of IMEIs being blacklisted? Having an account shut down is a pain but not a huge issue but I'd be unhappy to have my Pepwave router blacklisted so it couldn't be used for any plan on that carrier. That's what scares me off some of this stuff. I know, of course, that nothing in ...

I don't quite understand your reply. You can advertise on Reddit and say you need two more. That said, I've had mixed luck with Reddit. I've joined two parties and each time the others only stayed for a while then disappeared so I was surprised by a $40 bill. If you join a party of strangers, it's a...

https://www.reddit.com/r/VisiblePartyPay is good for this.

and this https://howardforums.com/showthread.php ... Pay-Thread

I think I have a workable solution for this. It's probably device dependent but, at least on my Moto G Power phone, there is a current level where the battery stops charging but the data still works. charge-limiter.png I will of course put some tape around it. I got a one of these https://www.amazon...

Are there still ways to do hotspots rooted without it counting toward hotspot data? I haven't kept up on this. Yes EasyTether will work for this. http://www.mobile-stream.com/easytether/android.html I use it on a Samsung Galaxy A01 with two plans. A T-Mobile Magenta. My account shows all data as de...

An update on this. I now have a nice new Moto G Power phone running on Visible. EasyTether does not hide the fact that I'm tethering as I naively thought it would. :( Even though the higher tethering speeds have somewhat returned, I can tell that I'm still "hotspotting" because when I try ...

It seems to be back up to speed again. Now I'm getting about 35 Mbps using USB tether to my old iPhone. I'm using WireGuard although that didn't seem to make any difference to the speed yesterday. It was always pretty much exactly 5.0 which suggests it wasn't a random slowdown. I'm getting a cheap A...

It's happening for me now tethering from an iPhone. Last night it was good but no more. I suspect EasyTether would get around it but I don't have an Android compatible phone.

After doing some experimenting, it looks like the iPad always needs USB power in order for USB tethering to work. There's no away around it. The solution I came up with is a USB breakout cable I made with a separate female barrel power connector for connecting a 5V charging adapter. The idea is to ...

No. Boosters have an inside antenna and, I think, two transceivers, one for outdoor and one for indoor. I'm just guessing here but I think a booster is quite a different device to a modem. Boosters don't seem to care about the mode, i.e., LTE, 3G. 2G (but they do care about the band). That suggests ...

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think any carrier officially lets you move a phone or tablet SIM to a router/modem.

The reality is that it seems to work but there are no guarantees.

Thanatos2185 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 14, 2020 10:46 am Well thought I had it. Once the screen went dark it lost its connection and now won't reestablish one.

Great blog by the way!

I'm definitely missing something though to enable this to work.

Thanks!
Well ... good luck. I'm happy to answer questions or check something to compare if it helps.

Hahaha, restarted the network manager again, and bam it works. Typing this reply from my PI right now! Now I just need to configure my Ethernet port to forward the signal to my router, and then script it so that it auto connects on startup! I am still looking forward to your blog to see if there's ...

I'm running the latest Raspberry Pi OS (previously known as Raspbian), "buster" on a Pi 4. I messed around a lot getting it working but I don't recall those problems. I basically plug in the phone and route -n shows tun-easytether at 192.168.117.0. I don't need to run easytether-usb. I thi...

I'm writing a detailed blog post about the project. I'll probably have if done tomorrow and will post a link here. That said, I'm not writing much about the EasyTether on the phone. That mostly "just worked" for me. I assume you've stepped though the EasyTether wizard on the phone. Do you ...

Why wouldn't you just get the $20 unlim postpaid ipad plan? I switched from the prepaid $35plan to Postpaid $20 plan and have had no issues. I tried that but they said I needed to own an iPad. I told them that I wasn't intending to use it in an iPad, it was for my modem and they told me that they d...

kysourmash wrote: ↑Mon Nov 09, 2020 3:48 pm Sorry I'm new to this.

Do I run EasyTether on my phone?

Yes, or an Android tablet.

kysourmash wrote: ↑Sun Nov 08, 2020 8:15 amI have excellent ATT signal. Terrible Verizon signal.

Tethering from a phone might be an option. If you use EasyTether, data will be counted as phone data, not hotspot. I have a Raspberry Pi running EasyTether and Wireguard. I'm in the process of writing a blog post describing it.

An LNA is only for an RX system unless it's a very specialized one with an RF bypass. Your Tx will fry the LNA instantly. Very true. Even if it doesn't fry the amplifier, the system simply will no longer work well on transmit. That said, the following is mostly moot but ... Hi, my neighbor told me ...

what was your original bandwidth vs with the VPN on? I just tried speedtest.net several times with and without the VPN and it's hard to notice any difference. I said 75% above but it's better than that. I usually get between 20 and 40 Mbps. I'm in Houston using T-Mobile with a Magenta Unlimited 55 ...

Ah, yea so it seems the application is passing bandwidth better as described above. Thanks for the info. the more on this topic the better. What VPN provider are you using? https://windscribe.com At first I created my own Wireguard server at Digital Ocean but Windscribe works great so there's no po...

Your edit does answer the question, but to clarify are you using the openvpn settings in the rooter software or are you using the application on your phone/pc from wireguard? I'm not running OpenVPN. I have a Raspberry Pi that has an Ethernet cable from the WAN port of my router and USB to the phon...

Would a VPN fix this?

I'm just tethering to a phone via Wireguard and EasyTether to Windscribe VPN. All I ever pass over cellular are UDP packets.

Edit: I see that someone already mentioned VPN. FWIW, Wireguard is working well for me. I probably get about 75% or more of full speed.

I know that "cell boosters" are not a popular topic here but I wonder how well, or not, they really work. Firstly, here's the new cellular connection for my RV that I put together last week. rpi 10.18.01 PM.jpg That's a Raspberry Pi 4 running Wireguard and EasyTether to an Android phone. I...

I have Magenta in a Pepwave which contains a MC7455. It's working very well where I am temporarily in Houston but I haven't even got to 50 GB yet.

Yes, but will be constantly running the risk of being disconnected with no refund, either due to their arbitrary data usage limit or the modem's imei.... it's your call. There are many other prepaid carriers which do not have these restrictions. Maybe a silly question by who are these "many ot...

Blazinghog was my #2 pick but the fine print on their web page was a little scary https://blazinghoginternet.com :roll: Your speeds will vary based on distance to tower, geography, and tower load. Speeds are not guaranteed. The service operates on third party cellular towers. Tower operators may ap...

I don't mean to nitpick but is NoLimitData really a MVNO? My understanding is that the likes of Mint, PagePlus and the carrier owned retailers like Visible and Cricket are MVNOs with agreements with the carriers and I think regulated by the FCC. The resellers seem to be simply reselling plans which ...

This might be of interest. Just announced today, Only available in some areas. If wired internet is generally available in your area then I suspect probably not but it's worth checking your address.

https://www.verizon.com/about/news/veri ... ural-areas

I recommend the T-Mobile plans they way I do for the HD Streaming. That is the only reason. If you watch allot of tv with your plan the HD Streaming on T-Mobile is a great picture. Another topic the best way to get a sim card is to order it over the phone. Then act dumb about what phone you have. S...

https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=888&start=140#p7409 Thanks for the info but here's maybe a silly question. If I'm going to put the SIM in a router and I'm happy with SD streaming then is there any advantage in going for "Magenta Plus Unlimited" rather than just &quo...

gscheb wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 4:47 pm Been doing it for over two years. Just set two other people up with it. T-Mobile issues are prepay and resellers from what I heard.

Okay, thanks. I'll give it go with T-Mobile postpaid. I'm old enough to get the 55+ discount

Hello, Never heard of it. Seems little high though for AT&T or Tmobile. Can get one line of T-Mobile for less than that or one line of AT&T and add the tablet plan to it. Can you take a T-Mobile phone plan and put the SIM in a router? I've done that successfully with postpaid AT&T but f...

Anyone ever here of this outfit? https://www.viperbroadband.com/ They're fairly popular in the Rural Internet community. They seem to have a reasonably good reputation over on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Rural_Internet/ but ... like most resellers, nobody quite knows what the real plans are beh...

My sim came already activated... I just popped it in and it worked. Never been in a phone. Yeah, I think I now have the same plan as you. I canceled the no-name "totally unlimited" reseller plan and got AT&T postpaid Unlimited Elite. Time will tell if that was a good move. I guess my ...

When you turn on the hotspot on your phone, the phone reports things differently. An LTE modem doesn't do that. A phone won't even do that with the right set of apps running. Some providers use other means of telling the difference, like the TTL. AT&T doesn't, at least not yet. Sorry to go on a...

Viper67857 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 7:10 pm AT&T doesn't care about ttl

Okay. I don't doubt what you say but do you know how they distinguish between phone data and hotspot data? If you're using 2 TB then they're obviously seeing your data as phone data. Lots of people say it's the TTL but ... I don't know.

That's the gist of it... Deprioritization over xxGB doesn't usually mean much if you're not in a high population density area so that the towers aren't congested. I tend to go over 2TB with a 100GB post-paid phone plan without noticeable drops in speed. As always, though, YMMV. What do you set your...

I see that cheap phones are easily available on eBay. I'll probably just get a used unlocked phone for activations. I probably should be somewhat careful buying used phones but some of the sellers have over 100K feedbacks with close to 100% satisfaction so they must be doing something right.

Thanks. Here's another silly question. The only phone I have right now is an old iPhone 6s. Until recently it was a line on a postpaid Verizon plan but I recently moved it to Visible. Assuming it's not locked to Verizon, can I use that phone to signup and activate an AT&T prepaid plan and then p...

Another maybe silly question. I have a AT&T plan from a reseller. Since I've learned more about the dubious nature of reseller plans etc, I'm thinking of canceling it and maybe signing up a prepay plan directly with AT&T. Do I need to wait until the first plan is completely canceled so AT&am...

Hi all I'm setting up cellular data in an RV. I have a Pepwave MAX BR1 MK2 router which is working on a $120 per month AT&T plan from one of the many somewhat anonymous resellers. It's working okay but I need some redundancy because my partner and I both work remotely and I don't want to find ou...

I have no idea how these resellers offer these high volume plans and I have a very strong feeling all of them are going to go away sooner than later or jump ship to TMobile. It's a bit of a mystery. I have a plan for my RV from yet another reseller, https://www.ezmobiledata.com. I ended up with the...

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