What is the difference between cellular data being used on my phone and cellular data being used on my notebook? Data is data.
yeah they are selling “wireless home internet” hard now, can’t have people using their phone hotspot for that.
This is why we need net neutrality
Sorry how would net neutrality do anything but make them reword the policy??
The ISP shouldn’t care what kind of traffic is going through the network and show it down by type. It should be neutral to it
Try plugging your phone on via the USB instead of a WiFi hotspot. It may not detect it as a hotspot.
Doesn’t matter, it still gets flagged as hotspot traffic.
I wonder if a VPN would make any difference? I have tasker set up to kick on wireguard any time I leave my wifi network. They’d only see my WG port.
It hasn’t made a difference for me, I’m on Verizon if that matters. I’ve got Wireguard set to always on and all traffic but I still get the usage notifications. IIRC there’s a separate apn for any traffic that goes through the hotspot or tethering connection and that’s how it’s monitored. The traffic will be encrypted, but they can still see it.
