clould wifi

devizes18193

Hi we where in the local hospital today ruh bath . They do 15minutes free wifi through tht cloud then is chargable .Fair enough but tthey charge different rates for web surfing and another for watching iplayer etc

Question is how can they tell what you are doing data wise

System

Due to the different ports used for each activity. web surfing tends to be predominantly port 80, 8080 & 443 and iplayer for example uses port 1935

I would think that they filter for the standard web ports and if not those then they charge the higher rate. Catches all the games, VPN and everything else at the higher rate

grumbler

devizes18193 wrote: »

...tthey charge different rates for web surfing and another for watching iplayer etc

Rates per minute or per Mb?

esuhl

!!!!!! wrote: »

Due to the different ports used for each activity. web surfing tends to be predominantly port 80, 8080 & 443 and iplayer for example uses port 1935

I would think that they filter for the standard web ports and if not those then they charge the higher rate. Catches all the games, VPN and everything else at the higher rate

Is there any way you could override the default port usage, so you could route, say, gaming traffic over port 80 to make it look like web traffic?

devizes18193 wrote: »

They do 15minutes free wifi through tht cloud then is chargable .

If you disconnect from the network, delete your cookies/cache, change MAC address, and then re-connect (using DHCP to assign a new IP address)... couldn't you get an unlimited number of free 15-minute sessions?

System

AFAIK Gaming tends to use multiple ports at both TCP and UDP so you couldn't really route over a single TCP port. Also the ports tend to be hard-coded into the game

See http://bandwidthcontroller.com/applicationPorts.html for the ports used by some of the most common games

joeypesci

Changing the MAC address would probably work. Don't think you can override the ports locally, besides, it's probably all going through a proxy anyway so they could block whatever sites they want.

devizes18193

Ok thanks all