Trying to tether your mobile but getting filtered by T-Mobile? T-mobile actually offers you to upgrade your plan to include tethering for 15US$/month. But that only starts from your next billing cycle. For a quicker solution that's kind of a workaround - Ben provides a helpful tip :
Their filtering is based on HTTP user-agents. If your user-agent matches a known user-agent that is not android it
will reject the traffic.Solutions:
- Tunnel your traffic using SSH, VPN or SOCKS
- Spoof your user-agent for all HTTP traffic
- Remove a user-agent from any script or program you have that you need to use.
One option is to use a VPN. Another is to remove the useragent from your browser.
How? On your desktop, install the following browser extensions :
- Chrome - User-Agent Switcher for Chrome
- Firefox - User-Agent Switcher for Firefox