Jonathan Corbet on Nostr: Once upon a time, if I enabled tethering on an Android phone, it would take the phone ...
Once upon a time, if I enabled tethering on an Android phone, it would take the phone off the local WiFi network and route traffic over the cellular link
Now, if the phone is on a WiFi network, tethering will route packets from the tethered device over that WiFi network.
I'm guessing that improvements in WiFi interfaces and drivers have enabled this change. But it misses an important point: if I'm tethering a device in an environment where a WiFi network exists, it is almost certainly because said WiFi network sucks and I want to circumvent it. Having the phone continue to use it silently thwarts that purpose.
It's easy enough to work around — just turn off WiFi on the phone — but for slow folks like me that only happens after wondering for a while why the performance is still bad. Does anybody know of a way to disable this behavior permanently?
Now, if the phone is on a WiFi network, tethering will route packets from the tethered device over that WiFi network.
I'm guessing that improvements in WiFi interfaces and drivers have enabled this change. But it misses an important point: if I'm tethering a device in an environment where a WiFi network exists, it is almost certainly because said WiFi network sucks and I want to circumvent it. Having the phone continue to use it silently thwarts that purpose.
It's easy enough to work around — just turn off WiFi on the phone — but for slow folks like me that only happens after wondering for a while why the performance is still bad. Does anybody know of a way to disable this behavior permanently?