Does anyone know how to block an isp 's data cap, trying to cut tv service off and they give you...

[G+_Donald Kloss]

Does anyone know how to block an isp's data cap, trying to cut tv service off and they give you a 1tb data cap, instead of paying extra money for unlimited

[G+_Jason Brown]

There's not really any way to manipulate the metrics your isp gathers on your account. If you pass data through their equipment, they're going to know about it.

[G+_Donald Kloss]

That's what I thought, it was worth a try ?

[G+_Black Merc]

Now, if you can 'barrow' wifi from a neighbor/coffee shop/public library, then you can get around that cap.

[G+_Black Merc]

Instead of trying to 'bust the cap'. Why not wireshark your lan and discover those 'data/bandwidth leeches' that waste that valuable cap?

 

Adblocker tools seem to speed up a browser by not pulling from third party sites that seem to only bog down your connection. That's wasted cap! Other ideas are out there...

[G+_J Miller]

You can always get off and not support an ISP that strangles it's customers.

[G+_Donald Kloss]

I think the only company that has no caps in California is charter I know At&t and Comcast both have caps I'm going to try to use our unlimited data off our cells to use at the house to stream everything especially with hotspots on the devices

[G+_Daniel Stagner]

If you can get ATT in California you may be able to get sonic.

[G+_Daniel Stagner]

Also lower on this page "Pi-Hole is Awesome!". It may help you with your current carrier in order to (IOT) lower your consumption of data from places you may not want to receive data from.

[G+_Em Eff]

I'm on Sonic but used to be on DSLExtreme; neither have caps and both have far superior customer service. Except in specific urban neighborhoods Sonic is using telco copper for DSL. Sonic offers a bonded (two pair) service to double your bandwidth.

If you're a high data consumer, the CableCo may be your better option. TWC used to have a cap-free options, not sure about the current Spectrum regime.

An easier investigative option may be ntop, available on most Linux based systems.

[G+_Donald Kloss]

I just capped out this month the wife has been watching a lot of Hulu on her phone that might be the cause

[G+_Donald Kloss]

No sonic for my address even though we're serviced by At&t

[G+_Ben Reese]

I'm thinking about making a video about it, but I was able mount a Raspberry Pi Zero-W inside a 6" can. Then it plugs into the PC and shows up as an RNDIS network device, that Windows/Linux/Mac will usually recognize without additional drivers. I then ran a Python script to list all the Access Points visible and output the results to a text file... In the end, I was able to identify probably 60 different SSIDs in my neighborhood - most of which I couldn't see otherwise.

 

Anyhow... May be an option for you if there's any community wifi in the area.

[G+_Ben Reese]

You mentioned using your phone... If your router has USB and can run OpenWRT, pretty simple to plug in your phone and use tethering with your unlimited data (perhaps against your contract, if you care). We just took a trip with ~14 hours on the road and this method worked great! I'm not sure what my carrier would look at to see if I'm tethering - or if they would care, so I had my phone connected to my VPN server at home.

 

A while back, Daren Kitchen did a tutorial on Hak5 for how he tethers on his WiFi Pineapple ?at home. Since he's using OpenWRT on the ?, I was able to just mostly follow his steps and it worked great! If I remember correctly, he's using OpenVPN on the router - I just did that part on my phone since it has more processing power than the router.

[G+_Donald Kloss]

I'll check that out my service comes with hotspot up to 10gb but they say they just throttle it down if I exceed that