UConsole - Google FI - Hotspot Issue

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I have a uconsole working properly with a googleFI DATAONLY sim card installed. I can confirm by disabling the wifi that the LTE is connected and sending/receiving data.

When I toggle on hotspot mode I can connect to the network that is created by uConsole but no cellular data is being sent or received on the tethered device. Uconsole still receives data however through cellular.

I went through a bunch of troubleshooting and hit a wall. Basically from what I can tell the hotspot requires IPV4 to share cellular data with the tethered device but the googleFI data only sim is assigning IPV6.

I have tried multiple resets to attempt to get googleFI/Tmobile to handshake over IPV4, it seems like a configuration on their side (probably deliberately to prevent hotspotting).

Is there a work around to this or am I SOL?

TY!

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How are you setting up the hotspot? This is most likely an issue with that software, not a uconsole specific issue, the 4g card is just a usb dongle after all, nothing that special.

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Do you have tethering in your data plan? It’s just like a phone to need to pay extra to be able to tether/hotspot.

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Sorry, I’m uncertain how to answer your question maybe you can give me some more details? I followed the guides to set up cellular and enable tethering.

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I took the sim out of the uconsole and put it into a glocalme hotspot and it works fine. I think that the issue is probably just that googlefi does not officially support tethering and that it does not work in every configuration.

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my question is, what exactly did you do and which guides did you follow?