Tethering issue on StraightTalk AT&T.

[greydarrah]

My wife's N4 is on StraightTalk (with AT&T) and our internet went down at our studio this morning, so she used the native hotspot for tethering. At first, it worked fine, then after about an hour, tethering quit working and rebooting both the phone and the PC did no good. As far as the tethering data goes, it was just her at our studio, and the only thing she was using the tethered PC for was gmail and the gmail calendar...in other words, very little data...no movies or youtube. I would guess the data used by the phone would be far less than navigating somewhere. My suspicion is that StraightTalk somehow recognized the tethering (even at such a tiny amount of data) and somehow shut it down. Could that be what happened and if so, does anyone know a way around it or have something else I might want to try?

 

[N4Newbie]

Can you install the free Speedtest.Net app on the phone, run it, and report the results?

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...zwanoo.android.speedtest&hl=en&token=yqn-n-Cx

 

[N4Newbie]

Of course, it is a 3 MB download so may take a while...

 

[greydarrah]

Can you install the free Speedtest.Net app on the phone, run it, and report the results?

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...zwanoo.android.speedtest&hl=en&token=Z6fSwr_O

I'll try in an hour or so when she gets home, but yesterday, we were getting 3 to 5 mgb dowload.

 

[N4Newbie]

If you are getting in that range at the same location, you may have been capped by ST. Apparently they do not publish any set numbers for capping, but if I recall correctly, they take drastic action against anyone caught tethering. There Terms & Conditions ( Welcome To Straight Talk - bottom of page ) are pretty clear.

 

[Insp_Gadget]

When you get a chance, check to see if her APN settings include the proxy server. If they do, you don't need the proxy. That proxy server would be the only way StraightTalk would be able to tell what kind of traffic you're pulling with your phone.

Question: When tethering stopped working, were you still getting data on the phone itself?

 

[greydarrah]

When you get a chance, check to see if her APN settings include the proxy server. If they do, you don't need the proxy. That proxy server would be the only way StraightTalk would be able to tell what kind of traffic you're pulling with your phone.

Question: When tethering stopped working, were you still getting data on the phone itself?

I have removed the proxy, but because I'm not with her right now, I'm unsure if she's getting data on the phone or not. I have a hard time believing that they detected tethering though. Maybe if she was watching youtube/netflix or downloading a bunch of stuff. But like I said, all she was doing was doing on the tethered PC was using gmail and the gmail calendar. That can't up any more data usage than just using the phone.

 

[Insp_Gadget]

I have removed the proxy, but because I'm not with her right now, I'm unsure if she's getting data on the phone or not. I have a hard time believing that they detected tethering though. Maybe if she was watching youtube/netflix or downloading a bunch of stuff. But like I said, all she was doing was doing on the tethered PC was using gmail and the gmail calendar. That can't up any more data usage than just using the phone.

Did you remove the proxy before this all happened or after? Is it a Windows PC? Perhaps a system update was downloading in the background. When you get a chance, check in the phone's settings and look at the amount of data usage. You should be able to tell which app/apps were using the most. If it was a matter of the amount of data then this will give you a clue.

If she didn't use much data, and you had the proxy still on while she was tethered, then I can only surmise that it was the type of traffic/downloading that raised a red flag with StraightTalk. But that supposition assumes that the proxy was in place at the time. If it wasn't, then I have no clue what triggered it.

 

[greydarrah]

I don't know what to think. The proxy has been blank for days now. When she got home, I ran speedtest and got 6 down and 1 up (good for att). Then I launched tether and a PC at home connected fine. We'll see how it goes tomorrow.