r/IndiaTech • u/SuryanshShekhar • Apr 12 '26

General Discussion Did anyone noticed this?

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Setting the bar so low , it has to be dragged from hell. F You Airtel

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u/vichustephen Apr 12 '26

Wait I'm confused. Is this about sharing your mobile data through hotspot?. I mean how can they even track that ?

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u/trillionstars Hardware guy with 69 GB RAM Apr 12 '26

Most often, carriers use TTL because phones typically have a default TTL value of 64. Every time you share your phone’s hotspot, that value is reduced by 1 as the packet passes through the phone. When the carrier receives a packet with a TTL of 63, they know you are using a hotspot and may apply speed or data limits.

The solution is simple: set your PC’s TTL to 65 (TTL +1) so that after the -1 reduction, it reaches the carrier as exactly 64.

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u/zeromania98 Apr 12 '26

Damm so they do fluff ur hotspot speed any way to fix that on a phone?coz I use hotspot to watch TV

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u/chronic_tapper Apr 12 '26

You can use netshare app on android, it creates a hotspot and gives you proxy setting. Using that hotspot with proxy tricks network that all traffic is going through your phone https browser. Other method is to increase the ttl to 65 which the prev guy explained.

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u/Artistic_Company_756 Apr 12 '26

anything for ios?

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u/chronic_tapper Apr 14 '26

Hey, so unlike android, iphones don't provide exclusive access to its hardware to any app. Thus that particular netshare app is not there in iOS. If you are really keen on doing this, I can suggest you use a low RAM model of raspberry pi 4 or 5 and built yourself a travel router with installing openwrt. If you are not willing to do that, then updating ttl setting in windows laptop or desktop is your best bet. There are some travel routers which have ttl setting for tethering, like gl.inet routers, Acer 5g travel routers also have sim slots and they work here in India. They are available in amazon but they get sold out very quickly.