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When you connect to a hotspot, your connected device gets a "private" IP address (usually 192.168.X.X). You're connecting through your hotspot device, so your first hop is still the same as on your hotspot phone.
If you're using something like Speedtest, that picks a "random server", for lack of a better phrase. What it chooses could be a worse one to connect to.
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Well it's not working like that for me. Like I stated, about three weeks ago all my tethered devices on the hotspot would show
they were connected to the same ip address on the tmobile detroit server, but not anymore.
Something is making them all end up on a different ip address in Chicago. Sometimes it might be in Denver, or
Minneapolis, etc.
When I turn airplane mode on and then off and my tethered devices reconnect to the hotspot, they all change back to
the same ip address in Chicago, but not back to Detroit, the same that the iphone itself is still connected to correctly.
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What you're saying isn't possible based on how tethering works.
Wherever your hotspot is connected through is the same your tethered .devices will connect through (it's going through your hotspot).
You're going to have to show what makes you think you're connected differently between the two.
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You are correct. Three weeks ago my tethered devices were all connected to the same ip address that my iphone was connected to on the Tmobile Detroit server.
But for the last three weeks they are not doing that anymore.
When they connect to the iphone hotspot, something is assigning them a different ip address that is located on the Tmobile Chicago server.
They all share the same Chicago ip address.
But when I check the iphone, it shows a different ip address that is connected to the Tmobile Detroit server, just like it always has been.
I think it's either Apple or TMobile that has done something to affect it.
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Tethered devices CANNOT have a T-Mobile IP address. Tethered devices get a "local" IP address (192.168.X.X usually). It's the same way your home router works for wifi. Tethering does not give you additional T-Mobile IP addresses.
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not true see my screens,
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It is absolutely possible and IS happening. I provided the screens. Different person, different device.
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No it doesn't pick a, "random" server. It picks a server it thinks is closest to you and least congested. It perfectly explains why speedtest would pick a chicago server for this issue ....because the ip assigned is from chicago on the hotspot.
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Hmm, are you able to post a screenshot of what you're seeing? I'm curious about what you're seeing on your screen.
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I'm still experiencing the same problem.
It shows my iPhone 8 Plus is located in Detroit, United States.
But my tethered hot spot devices are located in Chicago, United States.
I can't get all of them to automatically connect in Detroit like they used to.
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We've asked for screenshots of what you're seeing.
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Thanks for keeping us posted. We really wanna help out. Can you post screenshots so we can take a better look?
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Yea I can provide screen shots because the same exact annoying thing happens to me. My phone will show an ip location of detroit or flint michigan ( im in farmington hills michigan) and my hotspot from the same phone will have a chicago ip address. Here are the screen shots. First will be what my phone shows and looks like i need to create a separate
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2nd for what hotspot shows.
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here its showing me in devnver lol Dont think i could get there in an hour.
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I have the same issue on an lg v40. Sounds like its a problem with how tmo is assigning our ips and for what. TBH i have mad weird problems with tmo here in farmington hills. No one ever knows how to solve it and ends with a yea open a ticket for an engineer to look into. Yet when i call they can't see a problem. I posted screen shots of the issue from both my phone and tethered pc, I noticed they asked for some so i uploaded mine.
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Your screenshots of your server locations look similar to mine. That is what's been happening.
And not only that but after being connected to the Chicago Tmobile server for awhile they auto switch me to other
servers like Denver, Minneapolis, Aurora etc.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want my hotspot connection to be connected to the Tmobile Detroit server just like it used to be so I get the lowest
latency speed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Enough of your tricks Tmobile !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Convenient no one ever replied after that. Still.
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