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So when I go to the local Sprint store, they recommend the PDANet app as a way to tether for free. Great. I use it on the laptop. Works fine. But if I simply want to eliminate the USB cable and do exactly the same thing, they charge a dollar a day to eliminate the USB cable? I can't be the only one who thinks this is excessive!
So what are we really paying for when we pay for Sprint Hotspot? Whenever someone mentions rooting and using free wifi tether, there's always the "but you're stealing from Sprint" excuse. How can that be? My free wired tether (officially recommended by Sprint employees) is using exactly the same amount of Sprint's 3G bandwidth as it is when I use a free wireless tether app on root. So we know it isn't the data we're paying for. We're paying Sprint $30/mo for the privilege of not using a USB cable? I know it's possible that several (potentially many) devices could connect via a wifi access point, but technically if you know what you are doing, you can share an access point on a laptop easily too once you've connected the phone via the USB cable.
So I guess I don't get it. What am I missing? Why couldn't Sprint at least offer a single-connection hotspot option for FREE? It's obvious that Sprint wants to be seen as the "unlimited" provider. Giving the option to at least wirelessly tether a single device would put them in the lead. DO IT SPRINT!
Mike
mikeyxda said:
So when I go to the local Sprint store, they recommend the PDANet app as a way to tether for free. Great. I use it on the laptop. Works fine. But if I simply want to eliminate the USB cable and do exactly the same thing, they charge a dollar a day to eliminate the USB cable? I can't be the only one who thinks this is excessive!
So what are we really paying for when we pay for Sprint Hotspot? Whenever someone mentions rooting and using free wifi tether, there's always the "but you're stealing from Sprint" excuse. How can that be? My free wired tether (officially recommended by Sprint employees) is using exactly the same amount of Sprint's 3G bandwidth as it is when I use a free wireless tether app on root. So we know it isn't the data we're paying for. We're paying Sprint $30/mo for the privilege of not using a USB cable? I know it's possible that several (potentially many) devices could connect via a wifi access point, but technically if you know what you are doing, you can share an access point on a laptop easily too once you've connected the phone via the USB cable.
So I guess I don't get it. What am I missing? Why couldn't Sprint at least offer a single-connection hotspot option for FREE? It's obvious that Sprint wants to be seen as the "unlimited" provider. Giving the option to at least wirelessly tether a single device would put them in the lead. DO IT SPRINT!
Mike
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You probably got the one either retarded, or just nice and down to earth rep. Spring does not sanction the use of any tethering app, that's why they charge to use the built in one. Whoever told you that shouldn't have done so.
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You probably got the one either retarded, or just nice and down to earth rep. Spring does not sanction the use of any tethering app, that's why they charge to use the built in one. Whoever told you that shouldn't have done so.
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The app is in the market and doesn't require root. If they have a problem with Google's market and the apps within, then they should not run the Android OS. Sprint is just trying to sucker people by charging for this free feature.
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The app is in the market and doesn't require root. If they have a problem with Google's market and the apps within, then they should not run the Android OS. Sprint is just trying to sucker people by charging for this free feature.
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While this is true, they still don't condone tethering without paying for the hotspot. It's not unheard of for Sprint to drop customers over excessive data usage due to tethering.
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While this is true, they still don't condone tethering without paying for the hotspot. It's not unheard of for Sprint to drop customers over excessive data usage due to tethering.
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How would that work legally? It is a free app in the marketplace.
Sprint, and all other ISPs, have to pay for the bandwidth we use. When they offer us an "unlimited" plan they make a calculated guess as to how much data we may actually use and price their plan accordingly. They then hope we don't use too much.
However, the ability to tether throws the isps for a loop because of the potential for using so much more data. So they charge us an additional fee to cover the "excessive" bandwidth costs!
Of course they will never admit that the cost is for bandwidth since we are supposedly getting "unlimited". Its a catch-22 of lies for everyone.
Frankly, I get that bandwidth costs money. But I think its BS for a company to sell us unlimited data and then charge extra if we actually use it.
Either way, once this thing is rooted we will get around it.
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mikeyxda said:
So when I go to the local Sprint store, they recommend the PDANet app as a way to tether for free. Great. I use it on the laptop. Works fine. But if I simply want to eliminate the USB cable and do exactly the same thing, they charge a dollar a day to eliminate the USB cable? I can't be the only one who thinks this is excessive!
So what are we really paying for when we pay for Sprint Hotspot? Whenever someone mentions rooting and using free wifi tether, there's always the "but you're stealing from Sprint" excuse. How can that be? My free wired tether (officially recommended by Sprint employees) is using exactly the same amount of Sprint's 3G bandwidth as it is when I use a free wireless tether app on root. So we know it isn't the data we're paying for. We're paying Sprint $30/mo for the privilege of not using a USB cable? I know it's possible that several (potentially many) devices could connect via a wifi access point, but technically if you know what you are doing, you can share an access point on a laptop easily too once you've connected the phone via the USB cable.
So I guess I don't get it. What am I missing? Why couldn't Sprint at least offer a single-connection hotspot option for FREE? It's obvious that Sprint wants to be seen as the "unlimited" provider. Giving the option to at least wirelessly tether a single device would put them in the lead. DO IT SPRINT!
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Sprint's terms & conditions specifically prohibit tethering, unless paying for a plan that specifically allows for tethering. A Sprint rep telling you that you can tether for free doesn't suddenly change this fact. It might give you some leeway if you're caught tethering, but you're still against the T&C of your service.
I would prefer legitimately being able to tether without paying extra, but Sprint has the right to charge for it.
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How would that work legally? It is a free app in the marketplace.
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PDAnet isn't free, you have to buy the app or at least the full version. And Sprint can't ban the app because it can be used on many platforms and many devices so how do you think Sprint can ban it from the Android Market, Sprint doesn't own the Market, Google does.
Your whole argument in this thread is invalid. Sprint has every right to charge for its services and if you don't want to pay for them don't. If there are legit ways to get around the charges than do it. Don't whine here.
Good points and that's kinda why I brought it up. You have to wonder about both the present and the future of paid wireless tethering. I'm hoping soon that Sprint will lead the way to free tethering by announcing that they are the only company who now offers free wifi hotspots. Imagine how many people would switch THEN!
For now, we have free wired tethering that Sprint employees are (maybe "unofficially") supporting but yet you have to pay to do the same thing without the wire. And then there's the Nexus S which can do free wireless tether right out of the box as a standard feature. Sprint sets those up for you too, activates the phone, and you walk out of the store with a phone that does for free what they are charging us Evo 3D owners $30/mo for.
You gotta wonder WTF is up with the status of wireless tethering here.
Mike
mikeyxda said:
Good points and that's kinda why I brought it up. You have to wonder about both the present and the future of paid wireless tethering. I'm hoping soon that Sprint will lead the way to free tethering by announcing that they are the only company who now offers free wifi hotspots. Imagine how many people would switch THEN!
For now, we have free wired tethering that Sprint employees are (maybe "unofficially") supporting but yet you have to pay to do the same thing without the wire. And then there's the Nexus S which can do free wireless tether right out of the box as a standard feature. Sprint sets those up for you too, activates the phone, and you walk out of the store with a phone that does for free what they are charging us Evo 3D owners $30/mo for.
You gotta wonder WTF is up with the status of wireless tethering here.
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They charge you because they can. There is no other reason. They set the price as high as they think they can and still get a decent number of people to bite. The only reason the Nexus S does it for free out of the box is because Google didn't let Sprint tamper with the software and disable the feature.
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PDAnet isn't free, you have to buy the app or at least the full version. And Sprint can't ban the app because it can be used on many platforms and many devices so how do you think Sprint can ban it from the Android Market, Sprint doesn't own the Market, Google does.
Your whole argument in this thread is invalid. Sprint has every right to charge for its services and if you don't want to pay for them don't. If there are legit ways to get around the charges than do it. Don't whine here.
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AT&T & Verizon (from what I know) do in fact have tethering apps filtered out of the market on their service...
...I recall hearing that Sprint had a non-anti-tether-app policy, officially. I'm pretty sure I heard that on Androidcentral, but don't remember specifically.
Just don't abuse your tethering.
Though, truth be told, I could saturate that wimpy 3G connection with pandora and basic web surfing--on my phone....so I don't see what the big deal is...and 4G isn't metered by Sprint.
I say keep tethering, hopefully Sprint will overcompensate for the extra bandwidth people are abusing.
I've used the wireless tethering before sprint even started charging for it so screw them. If anything they're stealing from the devs who made the original app by charging such a ridiculous amount for something that's available for free.
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XxDjbluexX said:
I've used the wireless tethering before sprint even started charging for it so screw them. If anything they're stealing from the devs who made the original app by charging such a ridiculous amount for something that's available for free.
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That's some jacked up logic, dude.
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The app is in the market and doesn't require root. If they have a problem with Google's market and the apps within, then they should not run the Android OS. Sprint is just trying to sucker people by charging for this free feature.
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rofl your on their network though and you sign a contract stating you won't.
Bottom line is this: There is only so much bandwidth to go around. You can't just pretend that the airwaves are limitless and "corporate greed" is the reason we can't go nuts with data usage. Fact is that if everybody did this, nobody would be able to have decent quality of service. It would be like trying to have a hundred people squeeze through a door at once. It's just a matter of physics, it can't be done.
Right now when it comes to wireless tethering, sprint is simply looking the other way. There are many things that they could be doing to stop it, and they are aware of these things (verizon and at&t implement many countermeasures) but they don't use any of them. Why exactly this is, I don't really know, but I'd wager to guess that they want to appeal to users like us who don't want to go to other carriers just because of the little things like this.
However they can't go to the opposite extreme and outright allow it, simply because if they did this, people WOULD go nuts with their data usage, and sprint couldn't afford that. So this is their middle ground: saying don't do it, but looking the other way when you do, and if you go overboard, they tell you to go with another provider.
And personally, I wouldn't have it any other way, and I give props to sprint for doing that.
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PDAnet isn't free, you have to buy the app or at least the full version. And Sprint can't ban the app because it can be used on many platforms and many devices so how do you think Sprint can ban it from the Android Market, Sprint doesn't own the Market, Google does.
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Sprint can ask Google to hide the app from sprint users, much in the same way that at&t and verizon asked google to hide the wifi tethering apps from their respective users, and google did exactly that.
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Bottom line is this: There is only so much bandwidth to go around. You can't just pretend that the airwaves are limitless and "corporate greed" is the reason we can't go nuts with data usage. Fact is that if everybody did this, nobody would be able to have decent quality of service. It would be like trying to have a hundred people squeeze through a door at once. It's just a matter of physics, it can't be done.
Right now when it comes to wireless tethering, sprint is simply looking the other way. There are many things that they could be doing to stop it, and they are aware of these things (verizon and at&t implement many countermeasures) but they don't use any of them. Why exactly this is, I don't really know, but I'd wager to guess that they want to appeal to users like us who don't want to go to other carriers just because of the little things like this.
However they can't go to the opposite extreme and outright allow it, simply because if they did this, people WOULD go nuts with their data usage, and sprint couldn't afford that. So this is their middle ground: saying don't do it, but looking the other way when you do, and if you go overboard, they tell you to go with another provider.
And personally, I wouldn't have it any other way, and I give props to sprint for doing that.
Sprint can ask Google to hide the app from sprint users, much in the same way that at&t and verizon asked google to hide the wifi tethering apps from their respective users, and google did exactly that.
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Well said...
What about how the nexus s 4G (which I had for a couple weeks) that has wired and wireless tether built into the stock android, without sprint blocking it? Hoe come that is exempt from the t&c?
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if you need justification to pay 30 bucks, good luck. You will never get it, atleast not from sprint. Everyone does it, atleast sprint gives you unlimited for 30 bucks.
it is what it is and it has been for a while now. If you want to legally use the phone as a hotspot you have to shell out 30 bucks. Yes its a *****, so is life.
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What about how the nexus s 4G (which I had for a couple weeks) that has wired and wireless tether built into the stock android, without sprint blocking it? Hoe come that is exempt from the t&c?
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Not sure but seeing as its built in to the phone, since Google doesn't let them touch the software, you can use it on the NS.
Okay so I am running the latest CM7 on my Thunderbolt. I am interested in taking advantage of the official tethering abilty detailed on Droid-life. (it wouldn't let me post the link).. Basically it's 30 extra bucks a month for unlimited 4g tethering (for those of us currently "grandfathered" into unlimited 4g)
Yes, I am okay with paying for this service. Has anyone successfully added this feature and used it in conjunction with CM7? Thanks in advance for any help!
If you were on Synergy you wouldn't need the official ass raping by Verizon hotspot app....
As for every other rom, you have Wireless Tether.
Why pay for double unlimited ability?
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CanesDrew said:
If you were on Synergy you wouldn't need the official ass raping by Verizon hotspot app....
As for every other rom, you have Wireless Tether.
Why pay for double unlimited ability?
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Your rom is not special. He uses CM7 and it has tether built it. It had it long before the thunderbolt and long before your ROM existed. Please don't post off topic stuff to talk up your ROM. This isn't the place to do it.
Anyways, he wants to pay for it and use it legitimately. That's his choice.
To the OP, have you tried grabbing it out of a ROM that has it and installing it on your phone? I can't say if it will work, but it's worth a try.
paying for tethering is like paying for two orders of all-you-can-eat pancakes at Dennys. does not compute.
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paying for tethering is like paying for two orders of all-you-can-eat pancakes at Dennys. does not compute.
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I would agree but in this case, but you get these jackasses running p2p off their cellphones just to prove their wireless connection is unlimited, that will just piss the carriers and turn off the fun for all of us.
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paying for tethering is like paying for two orders of all-you-can-eat pancakes at Dennys. does not compute.
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That made me LOL +1 sir
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Okay so I am running the latest CM7 on my Thunderbolt. I am interested in taking advantage of the official tethering abilty detailed on Droid-life. (it wouldn't let me post the link).. Basically it's 30 extra bucks a month for unlimited 4g tethering (for those of us currently "grandfathered" into unlimited 4g)
Yes, I am okay with paying for this service. Has anyone successfully added this feature and used it in conjunction with CM7? Thanks in advance for any help!
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not sure, it seems all verizon apps don't work without sense being built into the rom. If you want to officially tether you might to try out a sense ROM.
So far all the unofficial tether apps I have used do not work over 4g, they give me 3g speeds.
the one on the newest CM7 gave me better then 3g speeds when I had it tethered. But even then it still doesn't make sense to pay for the teather when we have a free version even if it is a little slower you're paying $30 a month for the data then another 30 for the teather? Sounds foolish.
Paying for Hotspot while running CM7 is like... the weirdest thing I've ever heard. You paid for the phone, it has that ability, you turn it on. Why pay again for something you can do for free. It's not like your data plan doesn't already cover what you're paying for AGAIN.
Not paying for data twice. Pay data once, tether fee is for integrity.
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Paying for Hotspot while running CM7 is like... the weirdest thing I've ever heard. You paid for the phone, it has that ability, you turn it on. Why pay again for something you can do for free. It's not like your data plan doesn't already cover what you're paying for AGAIN.
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shame on someone following the contract they agreed to...
Think about if for a second, all the freeloaders in this thread. The all you can eat pancakes at Denny's analogy is a bad one and does not compute here. Since you can tether multiple devices at the same time with Hotspot, your Denny's analogy is more like you trying to pay for one all you can eat while feeding up to 8 people. I'd like to see a single Denny's or any other all you can eat venue of your choice willing to do that. Why should Verizon?
I'm really trying to be nice here, but all you moochers could well ruin it for all the rest of us. If you want the service, pay the friggin tether fee.
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Not paying for data twice. Pay data once, tether fee is for integrity.
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If you're going to pay for "integrity" you should probably know a little bit more about what you're going to piss your money away on first.
LTE through big red follows block c provisioning from the FCC. That tethering is your right, and it is supposed to be free according to the people who regulate it (assuming you're on 4g)
If you're not using your 4g connection, feel free to give big red your $30/month for subpar 3g speeds on a network congested with iphone kiddies swapping pics of their budding chests and whatever else kids under 18 do with phones these days.
If big red had an hspa+ 3g with 4mbit connections it might be worth paying for.
I for one won't be paying for either my 3g or my 4g, one for the principal and the other because it's not even worth my effort to attempt a connection.
I figured that the WiFi tether root app should work fine with temp root, what I don't know is if Verizon can tell if we use it and thus, bill us for hotspot use? I remember that there was some concern with the Incredible that Verizon had somehow set it up where there could detect this, just wondering if anyone knows for sure if its safe on the Rez?
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I figured that the WiFi tether root app should work fine with temp root, what I don't know is if Verizon can tell if we use it and thus, bill us for hotspot use? I remember that there was some concern with the Incredible that Verizon had somehow set it up where there could detect this, just wondering if anyone knows for sure if its safe on the Rez?
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I have saw plenty of customers coming in to my location being billed or shut off until they remove the program. Why risk it? Right now they are being nice, you are stealing. Pay the $30, get unlimited hotspot, and don't worry about it. Back to the old saying, if you gotta ask, you shouldn't do it.
Been doing it on my Droid incredible for a long time. Doing it right now from my boys nook color at wrestling practice. Never been charged, or shut off. Don't feel like I am stealing, but others will. If they catch me, there is always other carriers. Would be rocking out on my resound overclocked, and undervolted with a nice cm7 theme, but they have that door locked. They r breaking the rules there, so we r even.
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I have saw plenty of customers coming in to my location being billed or shut off until they remove the program. Why risk it? Right now they are being nice, you are stealing. Pay the $30, get unlimited hotspot, and don't worry about it. Back to the old saying, if you gotta ask, you shouldn't do it.
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I fail to see how it's stealing. You pay for your data, so you should be able to use it.
I Don't See At All How It Is Stealing.
The Only Difference Between My Netbook And Cellphone Is Screensize.
Both Are Dual-Core.
Both Are HD Screens, One Is 4.3in And The Other Is 11.6in.
HDMI Out On Both.
Both Use USB Connections.
Both Have Headphones Jack.
Both Have Wi-Fi Antennas.
Netbook Can Use Skype Or Google Voice For Calling If I Wanted To. (Also Could Buy A 3G Wireless Card Instead Of Just Using Wi-Fi)
Both Are Charged By Plugging A Cable In.
Both Have Okay Battery Life.
Both Run Linux OS.
Google put the feature in froyo, and the carriers blocked it to make money. It's not stealing. At all. I know they have a tether guard apk on the thunderbolt. Havnt looked for it yet, and I don't know what it does
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Yeah locking the bootloaders on phones has been questioned legally multiple times. It's like the carriers are trying to control your smartphone experience.
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It's like the carriers are trying to control your smartphone experience.
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For most people that is a good thing. I am sure it helps mobile device security for the general population. If a webpage could execute a root method and then wipe your system partition, that would be terrible for the average user, so it gets nand-locked.
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Yeah locking the bootloaders on phones has been questioned legally multiple times. It's like the carriers are trying to control your smartphone experience.
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It's the "smart" check for the 4g hotspot. Hotspot won't work as long as that apk is disabled or missing.
Are they able to read it on the resound though? That hasn't been answered here. Do they know we are tethering on temp root?
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I froze the TetheringGuard.apk. I haven't even tried to use the WiFi tether app yet.
I don't think they can tell if you are tethering with root unless they are looking really closely.
I'm on the fence about hotspot. I think for occasional use (tablets), I'm ok with not paying for it, but if you are trying to use it as your home internet service, you should pay for it. Wireless broadband is not unlimited.
on my Inc I used it very rarely. I don't have a tablet and my laptop never leaves the house where I have cable WiFi. My data usage on Verizon averages 2-3 GB a month. I haven't tethered since getting the rez the day they came out. I use it on my work laptop once in a blue moon because they are Nazis and block EVERYTHING on their network.
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I fail to see how it's stealing. You pay for your data, so you should be able to use it.
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If someone charges for something, and you find a way around being charged for it and use it free, how is that not stealing? Not worth the debate, all of you that don't see it will not see it. You probably think getting music from p2p is also not stealing, until you get caught and thrown in prison.
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If someone charges for something, and you find a way around being charged for it and use it free, how is that not stealing? Not worth the debate, all of you that don't see it will not see it. You probably think getting music from p2p is also not stealing, until you get caught and thrown in prison.
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I see where you are coming from, but I don't think you quite understand what is going on behind the scenes. It seems like the carriers are trying to see how much they can get away with, and letting them do so is the worst thing for consumers. We aren't getting something for free, we have already paid for it; the carrier is trying to charge you for the same thing twice. It is like buying tickets to a game or concert, then being told you have to pay an extra fee if you want to use your own binoculars. Or buying a nice meal but being given a plastic spork to eat it with, and being charged more if you want to use your own fork and knife.
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I have unlimited data from bring grandfatherrd in. unlimited means unlimited no matter how u look at it. and if they say otherwise then they better change the wording around.
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what if your home cable or DSL broadband said that you could only use desktop computers with a physical connection, but charged you an extra $30 if you wanted to use a laptop over wifi? Its the same thing.. you are already paying for a certain allotment of data... Verizon has no right (in my opinion) to tell you on what devices you can use that data that you've paid for.
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what if your home cable or DSL broadband said that you could only use desktop computers with a physical connection, but charged you an extra $30 if you wanted to use a laptop over wifi? Its the same thing.. you are already paying for a certain allotment of data... Verizon has no right (in my opinion) to tell you on what devices you can use that data that you've paid for.
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I agree and don't agree. Mobile data should be that, for mobile devices. My problem is with those that use it to run their home networks.
I'm curious to see how verizon structures the shared data next year. Unless its unlimited or some ungodly amount (100gb), I'll keep my current plans.
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I agree and don't agree. Mobile data should be that, for mobile devices. My problem is with those that use it to run their home networks.
I'm curious to see how verizon structures the shared data next year. Unless its unlimited or some ungodly amount (100gb), I'll keep my current plans.
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What About The Mobile Data Cards They Wanna Sell For Laptops Or Home Computers?
Agreed
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I agree and don't agree. Mobile data should be that, for mobile devices. My problem is with those that use it to run their home networks.
I'm curious to see how verizon structures the shared data next year. Unless its unlimited or some ungodly amount (100gb), I'll keep my current plans.
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+1 On mobile data being for mobile devices.
I can see using wireless teether when you have other devices needing internet in a pinch.
On my HTC Incredible, I used wireless teether on very few occassions. Sometime we lost power here alot within the last year, and I turned on teether so the fiance could use her laptop to get work done (she work alot as a social worker).
Other times I have used teether while on the road and she needed to use the laptop on our 2 1/2 hour trips up north.
People that use teether to be their sole internet for all their pc's at home, to the point of dropping their actual broadband provider, I do not agree with.
A guy I work with uses the teether to provide internet now to 4 computersand 2 xbox360s in his house. Yikes.
This is my opinion only, I don't speak for others, and I don't hate. I'm aware when verizon now offers 4g unlimited hotspot, that people will say well it's unlimited and I will do with it what I want. I truly don't believe it is meant to replace Uverse, Comcast, etc, since that is what Verizon Fios is for.
I can only imagine the big stink that would happen if Verizon changed the small print for the 4g Unlimited Hotspot to say "Only to be used to supply internet for other mobile device ie laptops, tablets, etc and it is not meant to replace your actual Broadband Provider."
Hey guys I was wondering, could I tether my ipad to my galaxy s2 (running cm9 nightlies) without paying for a tethering plan? I do have an unlimited data plan but I don't want to pay the extra just to allow tethering and lose unlimited data. Can I do this without AT&T catching wind and taking my unlimited data away?
Go into settings > wireless & networks
Should be under tethering and portable hot spot. Turn it on. Good to go.
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So AT&T won't hit me for tethering if I just use it?...
there's a chance they could. They have some way of detecting tethering to computers. I've been tethering for years with different devices and they haven't said anything to me, however its worth mentioning that I don't abuse my free tethering ability so I probably don't stand out as much.
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Alright cool, I just needed it for an informatics class to do a presentation, the one building its in used to be a hospital that was converted to classrooms recently, and they haven't put wifi repeaters into the rooms yet...
Thanks for the reply.
dreadlord369 said:
Hey guys I was wondering, could I tether my ipad to my galaxy s2 (running cm9 nightlies) without paying for a tethering plan? I do have an unlimited data plan but I don't want to pay the extra just to allow tethering and lose unlimited data. Can I do this without AT&T catching wind and taking my unlimited data away?
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I've actually done it before to my mother's iPad 2. So yes it's possible
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Mobile devices seem to be fine.
Don't use a desktop browser or any mobile browser that uses a desktop UA though - these seem likely to alert the "tether police".
SCREW ATT
You tell those punks that youll use your Data anyway you like(they wont do anything though). Its not like we dont pay for it already, yet they want you to pay twice for the same amount of data? I think not. When the Supreme court made it legal to Jailbreak/Root phones that meant we could do what we want to our phones because they are our property. Think of ATT Tethering ability like a 40$ app that you choose not to use. Instead you found a free one.
Hope that makes sense to the choir.
bobot420 said:
You tell those punks that youll use your Data anyway you like(they wont do anything though). Its not like we dont pay for it already, yet they want you to pay twice for the same amount of data? I think not. When the Supreme court made it legal to Jailbreak/Root phones that meant we could do what we want to our phones because they are our property. Think of ATT Tethering ability like a 40$ app that you choose not to use. Instead you found a free one.
Hope that makes sense to the choir.
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Actually it was the Library of Congress that allowed this. And the exemptions to the DMCA have to be renewed every 3 years, and the manufacturer can still void your devices warranty for installing 'unauthorized' software.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/feds-ok-iphone-jailbreaking/
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For those still have unlimited data:
1. Yes, without any problem
2. No, Verizon caught me
3. Other, please leave your comment
For those do tethering, how much data (roughly) do you consume monthly from tethering?
I heard Verizon will terminate the unlimited data if you get caught. Is this the case?
torr310 said:
For those still have unlimited data:
1. Yes, without any problem
2. No, Verizon caught me
3. Other, please leave your comment
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i would make the tread a poll. but
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synisterwolf said:
i would make the tread a poll. but
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Thanks for reply. I added poll when created this but didn't know where it went.
Yes. More now, since I found a way to do it without rooting or connecting via USB or Bluetooth.
1 i use it nearly everyday and i average 2 - 4gb of data everyday using wifi tether app.
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If I ever need to I use WiFi tether app and have it cut off the tether at 100mbs, usually when I do have to enable it for someone they really only use 40-60mbs
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torr310 said:
2. No, Verizon caught me
I heard Verizon will terminate the unlimited data if you get caught. Is this the case?
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Has this been the case for anyone? Just curious...
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I occasionally use it. It's handy when I'm in a coffee shop or something and want to use the internet on my tablet.
1. Several GB a day.
1. Use it for long road trips so the kids can get netflix on the tablet. and occasionally at home when our cable internet acts up.
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racingbmwm3 said:
1. Use it for long road trips so the kids can get netflix on the tablet. and occasionally at home when our cable internet acts up.
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last summer when we used tethering the most, was maybe 20-30GB/month. now, I'm back down to 8-10GB/month total, but not much of that is tether anymore.
1!!!
I use it everyday. 58 gigs last month :highfive:
DigiDave said:
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I use it everyday. 58 gigs last month :highfive:
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Holy moly! My buddy got capped because he used around 20gb. He then called and told them he has unlimited and they told him his phone was malfunctioning and sent him a new one; that one did the same thing. They sent him another and now it's not capping him anymore.
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Been using it everyday
Average 50-100gb a month and Verizon can't terminate your unlimited
When they bought the 700mhz spectrum they said they wouldn't limit
If they do terminate u take their ass to court
This post has been exiled from my Ecliptic Rezzy to be stranded here for all eternity
1 - On occasion when needed.
Average 2-4 GB/mo; mostly phone data though.
1. Most I used was 90gb total...theres 2 PS3 in the house n having brothers download everything...yea -_- and I have PS+ so i dl all the free games ha but it averages to about 40-60gb tethered for over a year now lol
Since lte came into our area, we've ditched cable Internet and wife and I use our phones to tether. We used to average 50-60gb a month. Since I rooted her phone (Rezound), we've been averaging over 110gb. Kids stream a lot of movies, videos, and gaming uses some.
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pogibry said:
Holy moly! My buddy got capped because he used around 20gb. He then called and told them he has unlimited and they told him his phone was malfunctioning and sent him a new one; that one did the same thing. They sent him another and now it's not capping him anymore.
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been doing this since I got my Rezound back in December 2011 :good:
Thank you all for your participation and information! I am pretty amazed some people did consume humongous data on their Rezounds. Is that why I feel my 4G has been slower now? LOL!
I am going to do tethering more from now on. Thanks again...
1 and thank the FCC for putting VZW in their place about the 700mhz spectrum.
Technically it's still not allowed to use 3rd party apps to tether on unlimited data plans:
What if I have an old Verizon unlimited data plan? Can I download an app and avoid the $20 tethering fee too?
Unfortunately, the answer to this question is no. Verizon says that customers under the unlimited plan are required by the company's terms of service to pay an additional fee to tether their device.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57...ns-fcc-tethering-settlement-means-to-you-faq/
Only time I've been tethering lately is when the internet in my apartment is horrid; so I start up my tether and continue doing what I was doing (usually Netflix).