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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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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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