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Hey all,

I recently moved out for University and am living in student accommodation. They are providing a great wired connection for free, about 100 up and 100 down. However, it seems that they have blocked voice conferencing applications which seems odd to me considering downloads in applications such as steam haven't even been slowed down.

As a gamer I use applications like Discord, Teamspeak, and even sometimes Steams voice call feature - all of which aren't working on this connection. Before the connection was up and running (took about a week before they had it up), I was tethering from my phone on an unlimited data plan.

My question is, is it possible for me to tether from my phone using USB and use this connection for applications such as discord and teamspeak, whilst simultaneously using my ethernet connection for everything else?
 
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Be careful to read most so called "unlimited" plans actually have limitations when you are running tethered. The best case ones I have seen just cut your speed way down when you hit a cap.....this changes constantly so its called read the fine print.

You have 2 ways to do this. The more traditional way is to use the route command. You would remove the 0.0.0.0 (default route) that goes to the tethered internet. All traffic now goes over your wired connection. You then manually add specific routes for each server you want to access over the tethered connection. The second way which seems to constantly be broken and then patched is to use a program called forcebind. This binds a application program to a interface. It works ok...
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Be careful to read most so called "unlimited" plans actually have limitations when you are running tethered. The best case ones I have seen just cut your speed way down when you hit a cap.....this changes constantly so its called read the fine print.

You have 2 ways to do this. The more traditional way is to use the route command. You would remove the 0.0.0.0 (default route) that goes to the tethered internet. All traffic now goes over your wired connection. You then manually add specific routes for each server you want to access over the tethered connection. The second way which seems to constantly be broken and then patched is to use a program called forcebind. This binds a application program to a interface. It works ok but microsoft seems to constantly break it with patches.

I am surprised games work but discord does not both are just applications using non standard ports...ie not web browser 80 or 443.

If the tethered is not really unlimited you have another option and that is to use VPN. The simple case is to get a VPN provider that has a data center in a city very near you. You would see very little performance penalty. Now you can also set most vpn so that not all traffic goes through the tunnel. You could run just your discord traffic through the tunnel. Forcebind used to work with a number of vpn but the route command will work also.
 
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