<div dir="ltr">I'll have to try putting a Ting sim in my Google Pixel 3. For some reason, I don't think a Pixel will do the 'lockdown' bit on the hotspot.<div>Personally, I use a USB modem. I don't like using WiFi hotspots at all.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 10:51 AM Jim Kinney via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="text-align:left;direction:ltr"><div>Yep. It's not your phone. Main OS load has control.</div><div><br></div><div>Try asking Verison if they will unlock your phone to do what you are needing.</div><div><br></div><div>On Tue, 2019-02-26 at 09:45 -0600, Neal Rhodes via Ale wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:2px solid rgb(114,159,207);padding-left:1ex"><pre>So, if you replace your Verison SIM card with, say any EU SIM while </pre><pre>traveling, and you attempt to fire up the hotspot, it will cheerfully </pre><pre>say, "This isn't a Verison SIM, bugger off". So, you have data, but </pre><pre>cannot share it with anyone you are traveling with.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Has anyone found a reliable independent WIFI hotspot implementation? </pre><pre>There are lots of apps which claim to be a hotspots, but comments abound </pre><pre>that they are but Skins which call the native hotspot code. Which will </pre><pre>promptly plotz.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Regards,</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Neal</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>Ale mailing list</pre><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org" target="_blank"><pre>Ale@ale.org</pre></a><pre><br></pre><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" target="_blank"><pre>https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</pre></a><pre><br></pre><pre>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at</pre><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo" target="_blank"><pre>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</pre></a><pre><br></pre></blockquote><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III
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