Nexus 5 on Three

hornett

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Ok I have the craziest problem with my phone and wondering if anyone else might have experienced it.

I have the nexus 5 on Three's one plan. I can be using the phone and all of a sudden will no longer be able to get online. The phone will show a full signal with a H but I will be unable to load pages and if I am tethered what ever is connected stops working as well.

What is really odd is if I go to Data Usage and turn off Mobile data the signal and the H stays for anything up to 30 seconds, its as if its frozen. Eventually it will drop the data connection and I flip the switch to turn it back on and I have internet back. Its almost as if my data signal freezes.

I have had Google replace the phone and had Three send me a new Sim card but its still happening, I have even tried setting it to only use 3G rather than looking for 4G

Starting to run out of ideas
 
I used to get that with Three when I moved over to the one plan & used tethering

Data connection used to drop out when I tried to tether & would only work again if I turned airplane mode on & back off.

Turns out tethering wasn't properly enabled on my account & I was being blocked by three's tethering blocking gizmo.
 
BattFink said:
I used to get that with Three when I moved over to the one plan & used tethering

Data connection used to drop out when I tried to tether & would only work again if I turned airplane mode on & back off.

Turns out tethering wasn't properly enabled on my account & I was being blocked by three's tethering blocking gizmo.
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Didn't Three change their allowance/policy on tethering recently? Also, I'm wondering how tethering detection actually works.
 
ocmanus said:
Didn't Three change their allowance/policy on tethering recently? Also, I'm wondering how tethering detection actually works.
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Yes, for new customers tethering is limited to 2GB per month. Existing customers who took out their contracts are unaffected until their contract ends.

Detection is via your browser's user agent tag.

For instance, the tag on the desktop version of Chrome is different to the tag of the android version.
 
I get this as well, makes me sad when I listen to the iPlayer which has pee poor buffering.
 
Faking user agent string is super simple thou, I don't have Three to test this out on but ther are plugins for Firefox/Chrome to change your user agent string. When I did have Three I remember I would only tether to my Tablet which it would never notice the difference for since Android tablets and phones have the same UA String.
 
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