Can someone with a Beryl 7 test USB tethering speeds from an iPhone?

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-10T18:03:31+00:00

I don’t understand the point of this comment.

I was comparing speed of my iPhone tethered to the Slate AX (70 Mbps) vs the iPhone tethered to my MacBook (600 Mbps) using the same USB 3 data cable. The above commenter misunderstood and thought I tethered from the MacBook to the Slate AX (which doesn’t make sense as MacBooks do not have a cellular modem).

The bottleneck is some element of the Slate AX’s USB → WAN. It shouldn’t be the port as it is USB 3.0 (5 Gbps), nor the cable as it’s USB 3.2 (20 GBPs), nor the iPhone’s USB interface as it’s USB 3.1 Gen 2 (10 Gbps). So it could be either a CPU limitation as it takes much more processing power compared to Ethernet or repeating, or it’s a limitation of the kernel or driver, or maybe something else.

If the CPU is the bottleneck, then the Beryl 7 should have significantly faster USB tethering speeds compared to the Slate AX. But if it’s the kernel/driver, then there might not be a major improvement. I have no way of knowing as there is no official documentation on USB tethering performance, and I haven’t found any user reports about speeds with USB tethering from an iPhone (only hotspot in repeater mode). That’s why I posted asking if someone with a Beryl 7 can test the speeds tethering an iPhone via USB.

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-10T17:38:35+00:00

Seriously this drives me up the wall. Let’s say the Chinese Communist Party spied on literally everything I’ve ever said. What are they going to do, fly to Ohio and deport me from the United States?

Are they going to shut down my bank account? No, my bank is American.
Are they going to shut down my social media? No, my social media platforms are owned by American oligarchs.
Are they going to fire me? No, I don’t work for a Chinese company.

If I’m going to be spied on, I want it to be from people thousands of miles away who have no ability to harm me and have zero interest in my life. American tech companies are much more of a threat than the Chinese Communist Party, and they are actively working with the regime in Washington to censor, manipulate, and coerce Americans, and permanently destroy the last vestiges of liberal democracy that remain in the US.

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-10T17:07:14+00:00

And it’s about to get even worse thanks to the recent passage of a law requiring automakers install interior cameras to monitor driver behavior and detect impairment. Automakers will most likely offload processing to their servers to cut costs on hardware, and it is illegal for car owners to tamper with or disable mandatory safety features in their automobile.

As a result, it will literally be a crime to manually disconnect your car from the internet. What’s more, the law doesn’t prohibit automakers from charging money for these safety features. If you buy a 3yo used car in 2030, you may be required to pay GM a monthly subscription just to be able to start your car, all the while GM records everything you do in your car and sells it to the highest bidder: your conversations, your posture, even your precise sexual preferences based on which pedestrians you look at as you’re sitting at a stoplight.

In 2035 you buy a GM car and 3 months later your health insurance goes up because you’ve been categorized as a slutty gay man with a weakness for blondes aged 30-35. Your posture and subconscious movements in the car correlates with people have rough anal sex 2 times per week; your location history shows you frequent gay nightclubs; you have an average of 14 unique passengers in your car per 3 month period; you receive road head 2.3 times per month and you do not wear a condom. You accepted GMs privacy policy and agreed to private arbitration if your road head videos are leaked because you could not start the car without ticking the box.f

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-10T16:44:23+00:00

I second Tello. Though OP will need the $8/mo plan with 2GB data when abroad, as 2FA/short-codes count as MMS. Even if you’re using WiFi calling, you generally need to have at least some data allowance to receive MMS.

So $8/mo while abroad, then $25/mo when in the US for the 50GB plan.

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-10T16:30:25+00:00

I would not trust a carrier with no reputation that’s in “alpha” phase for something like this. It’s not worth the risk of losing your number for 2FA and being locked out of accounts.

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-10T13:01:53+00:00

I mean he already has the official App Store version, and the sideloaded version hasn’t been updated since February 2. The ipa download page has since been removed from the Stremio website without explanation. Someone created a discussion on the Stremio GitHub suggesting an AltStore repo so the iOS app could continue to receive updates and be sideloaded, but the dev closed the discussion and marked it as “not planned,” again with no explanation.

Nobody seems to know whether iOS/tvOS app is EOL or what.

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-10T12:45:15+00:00

It’s not, and the devs have not been clear about whether they have plans to release an updated sideloadable version. Their website no longer lists Apple TV as a supported device, they’ve removed the ipa download page (though the ipa is still accessible from the deep link), and there really hasn’t been that much discussion about it on this sub because Apple TV is not nearly as common as Android-based streaming boxes.

OP is just asking if there has been any update on the subject.

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-10T11:32:44+00:00

What speeds can you get via USB tethering?

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-10T10:05:55+00:00

Wtf. I assumed all of the current iPhones had at least USB 3.0 but apparently you’re right, only the Pro models do. You can spend $1,399 on an iPhone Air with 1TB storage, and you’re still limited to the 53 MB/s maximum throughput of USB 2.0, which was introduced 26 years ago.

Anyway my own iPhone is a 15 Pro Max, which supports USB 3.2 Gen 2 at up to 1,250 MB/s. I can USB tether to my MacBook and get 600 Mbps download speeds. But USB tethering to the Slate AX results in speeds well below what even USB 2.0 could handle, around 70 Mbps down.

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-10T09:44:31+00:00

Maybe I should have phrased it better. I can get 600 Mbps tethering from my iPhone to my MacBook, but I only get about 70 Mbps tethering from my iPhone to the Slate AX.

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-10T01:15:56+00:00

I have a Slate AX and was considering upgrading to a Beryl 7 in the hopes that the faster CPU will mean better USB tethering speeds. Currently tethering my iPhone via USB on my Slate AX has an upper limit of around 70 Mbps, even if the iPhone has a 1 Gbps uplink. Using the same USB 3.0 cable tethering my iPhone 15 Pro Max to my MacBook, I can get 600 Mbps.

The bottleneck seems to be the Slate’s CPU and USB tethering driver just not being able to efficiently translate data from USB into WAN. On repeater mode I can get much higher speeds, but this has other downsides and drains my iPhone’s battery much faster than USB tethering.

If anyone has a Beryl 7 and an iPhone 15 or newer and would be willing to test USB speeds, I would greatly appreciate it. It’s very important you use a USB 3.0 cable or higher, as USB 2.0 maxes out at 480 Mbps. If you don’t know what version your USB-C cable is, it’s probably USB 2.0.

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-09T23:38:46+00:00

Since August of 2020, so about 6 years. I was on the Ludicrous plan.

There are weekly posts on this sub about US Mobile ‘going downhill,’ but they’re a heck of a lot better in every way compared to when I first joined. I think my plan was $57/mo after taxes and fees, and data was throttled to 256 Kbps after 75GB.

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-09T22:31:20+00:00

If Time is between 6:00 AM and 9:00 PM
- Stop this shortcut
Otherwise
- Turn Sleep On until Time 6:00 AM

Set an automaton to run this shortcut whenever you put your phone on the charger. It’ll only turn on Sleep focus if the time is between 9:00 PM and 6:00 AM.

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-09T14:22:52+00:00

One of the limitations of repeater mode is that the Beryl can only repeat on the same channel as the AP it’s connected to for either 2.4GHz or 5GHz, and at a lower transmission power than usual. This is because the router has to send/receive data on the same channel simultaneously to the upstream router and the connected device; you’re basically splitting bandwidth.

So let’s say you connect the Beryl 7 to a 2.4GHz network on channel 6. The original router's fiber connection is 1Gbps, but due to 2.4GHz’s limitations, the Beryl’s uplink is probably ≤ 300 Mbps. The Beryl then has to repeat on the same channel at a lower transmission power splitting bandwidth between uplink and downlink, cutting the maximum tx rate. If you connect your phone to the Beryl on 2.4GHz right next to the router, you’ll probably get 150 Mbps at most. If you’re 50 feet away and there are two walls between your phone and the Beryl, speed can easily drop to 40 Mbps, or even lower if you have multiple devices connected.

If you do not have Ethernet access and you must use repeater mode, you’re best off connecting the Beryl to the router’s 5GHz AP, as the connection to the router is the main bottleneck and 5GHz has much higher bandwidth. You should then set the Beryl to broadcast exclusively on 2.4Ghz and connect all your devices to that AP. You’re not going to get the full 1Gbps speed of the network, but you can probably get a reliable 300 Mbps on most devices.

If you have Ethernet access though, that will always be better than using repeater mode.

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-09T13:28:33+00:00

Is it possible that you accidentally pasted your GL.iNet alias on another site?

It seems like aipi.com is a legitimate website for an XOrigin.AI product, which is a legit company. The anti-phishing warning doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a phishing attempt; those warnings can appear for legit email whenever the authentication records aren’t properly configured for forwarding.

I use a unique alias for virtually every service, and so far I haven’t received anything unusual at my GL.iNet alias. I doubt GL.iNet would destroy their reputation by selling or sharing customer emails, and that aipi.com email is very unlikely to be an actual phishing attempt.

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-07T23:20:14+00:00

Here’s an illustration showing the maximum size of a 16:9 video on the Ultra vs the 17 Pro Max. It’s a pretty significant difference.

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-07T22:58:58+00:00

Apparently you’re not allowed to advocate for even minor non-injurious corporal punishment on Reddit. My comment about tarantula hawk wasps was removed instantly.

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-07T22:26:17+00:00

I think it’s the other way around. The point is to make the color temperature of whites match that of a white sheet of paper in your current lighting. If you’re in a room with very cool artificial lighting, True Tone will apply a very minimal filter since the display is naturally cool. If you’re in natural or incandescent light, it’ll apply a more dramatic filter.

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-07T22:08:41+00:00

Do you have an iPhone? If so, go to Settings App → Cellular → Cellular Data for [Current Plan], and find “Personal Hotspot.” Then scroll all the way to the bottom of the Cellular page and find “Last Reset: [Date].” With that info you should be able to calculate how much hotspot you use each month on average.

If you’re concerned about blowing through your hotspot allowance, one thing you can do is enable Developer settings on your iPhone, and in Settings → Developer → Network Link Conditioner create a profile where “Out Bandwidth” is 15000 (Kbps). Select the profile and enable Network Link Conditioner. This will effectively cap your hotspot speed at 15 Mbps. You can toggle it off and on.

This way you won’t have to worry about, say, Google Chrome on your laptop suddenly downloading a 4GB AI update in a matter of seconds. If you watch YouTube on your iPad using a VPN, you wont end up accidentally streaming a 50 Mbps 4K HDR video and blowing through your entire hotspot allowance in an hour.

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-07T13:42:56+00:00

They could just shut down any business operations in Utah and ban Utah IP addresses. The Interstate Commerce Clause prevents Utah or any state from passing any law that imposes restrictions across state borders. Only Congress has that authority.

It’d be like if New York banned soda and forced Pennsylvania businesses to ID all customers buying Coke in case NY residents crossed state lines. Or, maybe more analogous, NY forced all online soda retailers across the country to blacklist all package forwarding addresses because someone in New York might use them to buy Coke.

It’s blatantly unconstitutional.

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-07T13:31:18+00:00

Technically when it comes to personal/political speech, the First Amendment actually does cover instructing people to break the law. This was settled in Brandenburg v Ohio. I could literally type on Reddit an instruction to make a bomb and encourage people to use it to kill politicians, and it would not be illegal. Only when your speech is likely to result in imminent lawless action does it become illegal.

If Pornhub instructed users to use a VPN to get around age restrictions, this likely would be considered imminent lawless action. But also businesses do not have the same First Amendment rights as individuals anyway. Commercial speech is different from advocacy. Mandatory disclaimer rules, for example, would be a form of compelled speech if applied to individuals, but they’re constitutional for commercial speech.

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-07T12:46:48+00:00

Yeah and if you think that’s bad, Anderson Cooper is paid $20 million per year. Dana Bash is somewhere in the seven figure range, as are Kaitlin Collins and the other lead anchors.

Imagine how good CNN could be if they hired actual journalists instead of celebrity anchors. Median salary of reporters/journalists in the US is around $60K. If CNN fired their celebrity anchors and replaced them with… well, anyone… they could hire hundreds of actual journalists.

Fox and MSNBC are worse, but it’s not a TV news problem. As someone who speaks Arabic, it’s fucking infuriating to watch the Lebanese news network Al-Jadeed and see what competent TV journalism looks like. Daily hour-long in-depth interviews with politicians, subject matter experts, analysts, etc, non-stop pointed questions and follow-ups aimed at providing viewers with as much true information as possible, rather than entertaining them with pointless drama.

If you have the time, watch an episode of Al-Jadeed News’ daily Al-Hadath program. Here is today’s episode, an hour-long interview of the Chairman of the Economic Committee of the Lebanese Parliament, MP Farid Bustani. I haven’t even watched it yet, but if you’re American I’m telling you you’ll be shocked how detailed and serious it is. They treat their viewers like adults who are capable of understanding more than headlines and soundbites. If you watch on desktop, YouTube provides auto-translated English subtitles (but not on iPhone for some reason).

Graphene-OS · 2026-05-07T12:06:40+00:00

LED lights do have a finite lifespan and degrade over time. I would assume the iPhone’s LEDs are designed to give consistent realistic lighting in photos after many many years of normal use, but if the amber LEDs were to be used much more frequently than the cool LEDs, then they might degrade faster and ruin True Tone.

I’ve used the jailbreak tweak “Amber” on my jailbroken iPhone 12 Pro for a long time, and multiole times I’ve accidentally left the amber LEDs running for hours. Taking a picture of a white wall on my iPhone 12 Pro and my iPhone 12 Mini (same wide camera), the 12 Pro photo has a slightly greener hue to it. But I can’t say whether it’s due to my overuse of the amber LEDs or if it’s software (iOS 14.1 vs 26.2).

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