Undetected tethering

[Guest Tprice]

Hey all.

Just wanted to know if anyone knew of some kind of hack that would make it possible for me to do some kind of "undetected tethering" with windows mobile 6.1?

Something that would make it look like the data been used is on-device usage and not tethering.

Im with bell canada and they charge up the you know what for tethering.

Any help would be great!

Thanks.

[Guest aceofrazgriz]

Few pages on here about it. Look up the ICS cab. Its Microsoft's tethering program, its undetectable as it just uses your normal data connection and not a different tethering connection like what your provider would have you use. Many, MANY of us have used it and can attest you won't get charged for tethering with it.

[Guest dwallersv]

We're getting away with it for now (thank God). However, the WMWifiRouter method is not undectable, just doubt Verizon has put the necessary packet filtering software in place to detect it.

How to detect it? Easy. Every packet contains NAT headers, necessary for WMWifiRouter to properly route incoming packets to the the correct client. Doesn't matter that there's usually only one client. WMWifiRouter does standard run-of-the-mill NAT.

If Verizon wanted to filter packets and look for this tell-tale sign, they could. The could even block such packets, making tethering in this way not work at all.

The only truly invisible way to do this is for someone to make a forwarding app that will do essentially the same thing as NAT, but be dedicated to a single client so no NAT headers in the packet would be needed, or design some non-standard proprietary scheme for performing the packet routing via a custom header that contains an index into an internal NAT table on the phone, so Verizon can't tell.

So far, I suspect the number of people getting around their tethering business model with the WMWifiRouter technique are such a small set of customers -- takes some technical sophistication to get it set up and working that is beyond 99% of their customers (remember, we're not just talking Omnias here) that it's not worth the investment, infrastructure, and customer satisfaction issues to hassle us.

I have no doubt -- none AT ALL -- that they are well aware of this "cheat".

Edited June 13, 2009 by dwallersv

[Guest Tprice]

Thanks very much for the fast reply.

So is there a chance you could tell me how it works, just so i have an idea about that the works are on it.

[Guest dwallersv]

Thanks very much for the fast reply.

So is there a chance you could tell me how it works, just so i have an idea about that the works are on it.

Go to this thread, do your homework there, install ICS and WMWifiRouter, and configure it. It's pretty straightforward.

If you tether regularly, I would recommend spending the $20 to buy the commercial version of WMWifiRouter. More stable, reliable, more features, and you support the developer.

[Guest Tprice]

Go to this thread, do your homework there, install ICS and WMWifiRouter, and configure it. It's pretty straightforward.

If you tether regularly, I would recommend spending the $20 to buy the commercial version of WMWifiRouter. More stable, reliable, more features, and you support the developer.

And this will work in the bell sympatico network. i noticed they are talking about Verizon.

[Guest dwallersv]

And this will work in the bell sympatico network. i noticed they are talking about Verizon.

The software and methodology are general, and will work with any network provider.

[Guest Tprice]

The software and methodology are general, and will work with any network provider.

Cool thanks very much for the help everyone!

[Guest Tprice]

Just again would this be considered free or included with my data package.

I really dont want to be charged up the ass from bell.

Any help would be great!

Thanks