Hey all. I'm not sure if this is an issue with Verizon being asses, Verizon's coverage in my area, or the Phone itself. I have a PinePhone Beta running Postmarket. Aside from this, I maintain an Android phone for those family members that refused to leave Facebook Messenger (baby ducks are more stubborn than mules). I tether this Android phone off of the PinePhone most of the time, at least until I get to some other WiFi. Now, the coverage in my area is spotty, with all major carriers having miles of dead spots with tiny slivers of coverage between them and I have always attributed this to poor connection on my Android phone while tethering, but I've noticed that I can get perfect performance on the PinePhone, even when the Android phone is saying that I can't get a connection. I've confirmed that this isn't my VPN, as the issues are there whether or not it's turned on.
There are three possibilities that I can think of. One, Verizon is throttling tethering on my "unsupported" device. I doubt this. It hasn't always been that way and I don't know why they'd just throttle tethering without throttling the phone itself. Two, there may be an issue with either something in software or hardware on the PinePhone bottlenecking the connection. The issue is intermittent, so I don't know about that one. I'd expect to have the issue either all the time or never if it were an issue with the PinePhone bottlenecking it. Three, I may have been in a poor coverage area while using the Android device, but when I switched to the PinePhone, I had just so happened to have moved into an area with coverage...every time that I had this issue. This seems really unlikely because I don't walk that fast and it's not the same place every time.
I'm really kind of stumped on this one. Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions as to what this might be.
There are three possibilities that I can think of. One, Verizon is throttling tethering on my "unsupported" device. I doubt this. It hasn't always been that way and I don't know why they'd just throttle tethering without throttling the phone itself. Two, there may be an issue with either something in software or hardware on the PinePhone bottlenecking the connection. The issue is intermittent, so I don't know about that one. I'd expect to have the issue either all the time or never if it were an issue with the PinePhone bottlenecking it. Three, I may have been in a poor coverage area while using the Android device, but when I switched to the PinePhone, I had just so happened to have moved into an area with coverage...every time that I had this issue. This seems really unlikely because I don't walk that fast and it's not the same place every time.
I'm really kind of stumped on this one. Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions as to what this might be.