Pada
Executive Member
I'm currently in Las Vegas and I've been having trouble browsing non-HTTPS webpages via my tethered Android phone on T-mobile network.
I then thought it was some kind of TTL expiry issue, because to myBB, it is 30 hops!
After trying other websites, I noticed that HTTPS sites work, and also PPTP VPN, but websites didn't work from my PC, while it still worked on my phone.
Now I'm forced to set my user agent to like an Android one, eg. "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.2.2; Nexus 4 Build/JDQ39) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome"
Interestingly, I couldn't find any mentioning of this problem on the Internet, except for that tethering is "blocked" on their unlimited plans and then people use VPN's to bypass it.
The $3/day plan that I'm on has "unlimited web" per day, but after 200MB it gets throttled - so perhaps this is the same plan they're referring to
I then thought it was some kind of TTL expiry issue, because to myBB, it is 30 hops!
Code:
Tracing route to mybroadband.co.za [41.203.21.137]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2 ms 4 ms 1 ms 192.168.43.1
2 606 ms 145 ms * 10.170.213.48
3 499 ms 945 ms 509 ms 10.170.213.133
4 341 ms 317 ms 344 ms 10.168.185.54
5 942 ms 641 ms 461 ms 10.168.185.53
6 187 ms 90 ms 91 ms 10.170.213.5
7 225 ms 90 ms 98 ms 10.170.213.11
8 213 ms 180 ms 767 ms 10.177.30.233
9 74 ms 102 ms 1030 ms 10.177.16.246
10 3685 ms 672 ms 655 ms 10.177.17.1
11 1184 ms 659 ms 340 ms xe-4-2-0.edge3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.71.136.21]
12 839 ms 639 ms 785 ms vlan80.csw3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.144.190]
13 247 ms 235 ms 230 ms ae-83-83.ebr3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.137.41]
14 332 ms 301 ms 332 ms ae-3-3.ebr1.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.132.9]
15 399 ms 272 ms 263 ms ae-2-2.ebr2.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.135.186]
16 1232 ms 926 ms 1504 ms ae-72-72.csw2.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.148.38]
17 2053 ms 1357 ms 273 ms ae-71-71.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.134.69]
18 235 ms 256 ms 238 ms ae-41-41.ebr2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.137.65]
19 226 ms 247 ms 220 ms ae-59-224.csw2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.153.142]
20 230 ms 235 ms 241 ms ae-230-3606.edge4.London1.Level3.net [4.69.166.21]
21 266 ms 322 ms 215 ms 195.50.122.182
22 632 ms 218 ms 237 ms ls-cr-2.uk--ls-pr-2.uk.mtnns.net [209.212.111.186]
23 447 ms 578 ms 428 ms rb-cr-1.za--ls-cr-2.uk.mtnns.net [196.44.31.115]
24 1160 ms 880 ms 2109 ms 196.44.31.97
25 429 ms 472 ms 446 ms 196.30.1.39
26 502 ms 695 ms 427 ms tengigabitethernet1-1.gw21.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.31.220.21]
27 422 ms 417 ms 424 ms tengigabitethernet5-2.hr9.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.31.63.150]
28 512 ms 410 ms 416 ms core-router1.jnb2.host-h.net [196.30.213.108]
29 1710 ms 489 ms 510 ms core-access-switch1-vlan1001.jnb.host-h.net [41.72.136.53]
30 448 ms 486 ms 461 ms mybroadband.co.za [41.203.21.137]
Trace complete.After trying other websites, I noticed that HTTPS sites work, and also PPTP VPN, but websites didn't work from my PC, while it still worked on my phone.
Now I'm forced to set my user agent to like an Android one, eg. "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.2.2; Nexus 4 Build/JDQ39) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome"
Interestingly, I couldn't find any mentioning of this problem on the Internet, except for that tethering is "blocked" on their unlimited plans and then people use VPN's to bypass it.
The $3/day plan that I'm on has "unlimited web" per day, but after 200MB it gets throttled - so perhaps this is the same plan they're referring to
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