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It just occurred to me that perhaps Verizon/Visible is intentionally allowing the TTL=88 to bypass the hotspot throttle to see how many people are using the trick. It’s my understanding that TTL=65 works because 64 if the default TTL for cell phones. I don’t understand why 88 would work.
Based on my experience with TTL=65 not working anymore it seams as if Verizon is using some sort of DPI (deep packet inspection) to determine if a hotspot is being used despite the “correct” TTL value being used (due to the TTL trick). This also seem to agree with my experience that using a VPN will defeat the throttle as Verizon’s DPI is unable to see the data and determine that the data is hotspot data.
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Please share your thoughts on this.