How do mobile phone companies detect if you are sharing your 3G/4G internet connection? -
i spoke phone company in denmark, offer "free 3g/4g", on phone, have limitation if create hotspot , share connection, limitation on 50gb.
how detect if mobile device sharing connection? intercept special headers computer/other phones send on connection?
mac addresses used @ lower layer ip , relate each hop or leg of end end communication don't issue.
detecting tethered devices quite complicated task , there special solutions this. tend @ multiple things try determine if other devices using mobiles connection, if devices spoofing or manipulating headers etc.
examples of things solution at:
- number of simultaneous sessions
- http user-agent headers
- device type
- device screen size
- tcp timestamp
- tcp source port
- tcp sequence number
- application-based correlation tcp flows
- node-pair correlation tcp flows
see here example solution , more details of above (this 1 example solution):
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