What is the difference between cellular data being used on my phone and cellular data being used on my notebook? Data is data.

  • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Great tip.

    Time to live (TTL) or hop limit is a mechanism which limits the lifespan or lifetime of data in a computer or network. TTL may be implemented as a counter or timestamp attached to or embedded in the data. Once the prescribed event count or timespan has elapsed, data is discarded or revalidated. In computer networking, TTL prevents a data packet from circulating indefinitely. In computing applications, TTL is commonly used to improve the performance and manage the caching of data.

    Hmm kinda makes sense

    • Laser@feddit.deEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I had a provider before that blocked tethering and hotspot, the solution there was also to increase TTL on the clients connecting to the phone by 1. The phone would lower it by 1 again, making it look like data originated from there.