In my previous posts, I talked about the Netgear MR1100 and T-Mobile TMOHS1 hotspots. In them, I briefly spoke about mods you can perform on those devices, including modifying the TTL and changing the DNS servers. But I wanted a little more security on the DNS side, especially because we know that carriers perform deep packet inspection and God knows what else on their networks. Originally I planned to use cloudflared [https://github.com/Cloudflare/cloudflared] in its DNS mode, however, the bin

After receiving a T-Mobile TMOHS1 hotspot, I was left craving a little more. I hopped on eBay, searched up for an MR1100 hotspot, and found an ATT model with a bad SIM reader for ~$50! Bought it, took a small knife to the gold contacts on the reader, and pushed them up a little, and we're up and running! I've been using the T-Mobile $10 business unlimited tablet plan, and I have read online that T-Mobile specifically blocks the IMEIs of MR1100s unless they're on specific hotspot plans. So my fi

A lovely little hotspot with an even lovelier backdoor.