GiffGaff unlimited mobile Internet and tethering

colinicky

FelinePrincess wrote: »

How easy would it be to tether from an iPhone to iPad? Only experience I've had us using personal hotspot which I understand doesn't work in gifgaf

I don't know if something has changed but in October I used my S3 as a personal hotspot with no problems on giffgaff, admittedly only for my ipad so not massive data amounts. I am only on their £10 1gb tariff

peachyprice

colinicky wrote: »

I don't know if something has changed but in October I used my S3 as a personal hotspot with no problems on giffgaff, admittedly only for my ipad so not massive data amounts. I am only on their £10 1gb tariff

You can't use an un-jailbroken iphone to tether on Giffgaff, they say that in their faq's. Or a PAYG Blackberry. Your S3 and most other phones are fine.

londonTiger

colinicky wrote: »

I don't know if something has changed but in October I used my S3 as a personal hotspot with no problems on giffgaff, admittedly only for my ipad so not massive data amounts. I am only on their £10 1gb tariff

You can tether on the 1gb plan but not on their unlimited plans. Pretty self explanatory really, phones aren't geared for hi Def and people generally don't go through a lot of data. On a laptop windows update, iTunes update etc can go through 1gb very easily. Also laptops play 720p just fine so users will torrent stuff.

Nobody knows how companies detect when their users are tethering, some say it could be through advance analysis of the traffic type like the stream quality, mobile vs desktop optimised websites, data type etc,. Or it could be just tracking the basic windows, Mac, Linux contact with update servers,. I bet it's as simple as that

colinicky

peachyprice wrote: »

You can't use an un-jailbroken iphone to tether on Giffgaff, they say that in their faq's. Or a PAYG Blackberry. Your S3 and most other phones are fine.

Thank you, didn't realise it was only specific phones .

ZhugeEX

londonTiger wrote: »

Nobody knows how companies detect when their users are tethering, some say it could be through advance analysis of the traffic type like the stream quality, mobile vs desktop optimised websites, data type etc,. Or it could be just tracking the basic windows, Mac, Linux contact with update servers,. I bet it's as simple as that

Yup.

Deep packet inspection and packet sniffing are commonly used as well.

londonTiger

colinicky wrote: »

Thank you, didn't realise it was only specific phones .

they are cheap network with no operators and very little marketing. they decided not to pay apple to get recognised status as a network so they can add tether feature when a giffgaf sim is inserted, hence why you need to jailbreak it.

Apple are pretty draconian but im sure its not hugely expensive to get recognised by apple

cookie365

joshtbh wrote: »

Hi all anyone know how to block giffgaff from being able to tell you are tethering?

Yes: get a sim from Three that allows unlimited tethering. Giffgaff will have no way of knowing.