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How to tether behind carrier's back?

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Doju

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Jun 16, 2008
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Anyone have any idea how to do this? My plan on my iPhone costs $8/mb to tether, so I'm definitely not going down that road.

I'm jailbroken so I hear there's solutions that way. Do you guys recommend PDANet or MyWi or another one?

CAN BELL (my carrier in Canada) DETECT THIS IN ANYWAY AS ME ACTUALLY TETHERING? I'm not using the official method, but a jailbroken method. They can't find that, can they?

Has anyone on Bell had any experience tethering behind the carrier's back? Or on another network even?

Lastly would you recommend wifi hotspot tethering or bluetooth-computer tethering? WiFi is less… vocal, but convenient.
 
Well your carrier might not be able to tell that your tethering but they might notice the huge amounts of bandwidth going through your phone.
 
I'll just say I'm downloading a lot of videos from iTunes and streaming video. As long as they can't tell it's actually tethering, I'm good.
 
Later this week when I am done with my current project I plan on doing some serious looking at the packets from my iphone vs the packets from my laptop tethered. Obviously, the shape of the traffic would be able to tell i am tethered, but with a VPN environment, I am interested if the data looks any different. I have a feeling it will look identical, but I dont want to have random charges show up 6 months later on my ATT bill. Would be a pain in the arse to fight. If I do not get engulfed in something else before this, I will let you know my results.
 
thep33t said:
Later this week when I am done with my current project I plan on doing some serious looking at the packets from my iphone vs the packets from my laptop tethered. Obviously, the shape of the traffic would be able to tell i am tethered, but with a VPN environment, I am interested if the data looks any different. I have a feeling it will look identical, but I dont want to have random charges show up 6 months later on my ATT bill. Would be a pain in the arse to fight. If I do not get engulfed in something else before this, I will let you know my results.
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Please do let us know what you find out. This has been a long-raging debate on this board, but to my knowledge nobody has actually examined the packets to see how/if they differ. If they do not, then all this worry about being "caught" tethering is pointless.
 
thelatinist said:
Please do let us know what you find out. This has been a long-raging debate on this board, but to my knowledge nobody has actually examined the packets to see how/if they differ. If they do not, then all this worry about being "caught" tethering is pointless.
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They are exactly the same

The thing that gets you caught is the amount of bandwidth used per month

I have been tethering for almost a year ( My tethered internet is the only way I can connect to the internet at home)

I haven't received any warning e-mails
 
Ultimately, this "debate" only matters in regards to everybody's locations, therefore their carriers. Without that info, all this talk is really for naught
 
thelatinist said:
You have actually examined the packets?
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to my knowledge (through extensive searching of too many iphone sites), no one has examined the packets, or the 1-2 that claim to have posted no proof or explanation other than just making the claim.
 
thep33t said:
to my knowledge (through extensive searching of too many iphone sites), no one has examined the packets, or the 1-2 that claim to have posted no proof or explanation other than just making the claim.
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Exactly, which is why I would love to hear what you find out. People make claims both ways, but I've never seen anyone offer any proof or analysis. You'll be doing us all a favor.
 
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