So this method is pretty straight forward and doesn’t require root. After going thru my 15GB in a week while camping, Verizon throttled my hotspot to 600Kbps…which might as well be them turning off the function.
With this method, it simply bypasses hotspot data and cloaks the data as if it was normal phone data.
With my Verizon “unlimited” data plan, I have unlimited data (22gb and then deprioritized if congested, not throttled.). I’ve never been throttled for going over my cellular data, only hotspot.
They throttle hotspot data, not cellular data
To no one’s surprise, this involves cloaking your connection as if it was your phone’s usage… By using a TTL of “65” and a VPN. Mobile phones use a TTL of 65, and it’s ond of the ways carriers know you’re using cellular or hotspot.
Step 1) On your windows computer/laptop, open a new command prompt as administrator. You’re going to be entering a command to change your TTL.
If you’re going to be using the laptop/computer as your device to use the data on, you’ll be setting it’s TTL to “65”. For me, I wanted my Shield TV to be the device using the data, via my laptop’s WiFi. So because it’s going from my phone, to my laptop, to my shield, I cannot just set my laptop’s TTL to “65” as there is one hop between the laptop and shield. If I just set the TTL to “65” on my Laptop and connect my shield to my laptop, the Shield will have a TTL of “66” and it’ll be used as hotspot data which is throttled. I hope that makes sense…
So…
If you’re just using the data on your laptop/computer, use the following commands in the CMD window:
netsh int ipv4 set glob defaultcurhoplimit=65
netsh int ipv6 set glob defaultcurhoplimit=65
If you’re like me, and want to use your laptop as a Wi-Fi repeater, you’ll use the following commands:
netsh int ipv4 set glob defaultcurhoplimit=64
netsh int ipv6 set glob defaultcurhoplimit=64
(Copy and paste the first line, hit enter, and CMD will echo out “OK.”, then do the same with the 2nd line. Again, make sure you’re running CMD as administrator.)
Step 2) Turn on your cell phone’s hotspot, for me I use the built in mobile hotspot function on my galaxy s9+
Step 3) Whatever device you’re going to be using the data on, launch a VPN. Some people might not need to use a VPN if they are just going from their phone to one device (without an extra hop). For me though, my shield would only bypass the throttling if I turned on the VPN on the shield itself. I personally use NordVPN.
That’s it, no more throttling. This has been a life saver for me, as I’m on the road traveling with my camper for the rest of the week. Having access to unlimited high speed internet has been amazing. Especially because I went over my hotspot data in the first week, and was throttled to 600kbps. Once I did the steps above, I went up to 35-50mbps. Plenty fast enough to stream my TV channels and Netflix.
If you have issues with Netflix because of the VPN, just change your DNS. A quick Google search will help yah with that.
This probably isn’t the only method out there, but it worked for me. I tried several ways before just deciding to mess with my TTL values. My phone and Shield are both NOT ROOTED so the only way to change the TTL was via windows.
Linux, Mac, and whatever else will normally have a way to change the TTL. So this isn’t just for windows, just this specific guide is 
