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My point was more that the US carriers have no excuse and should get with the times.
oh. didnt see what you were actually saying there. sorry
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RANT: why is tethering such a crime?!?!
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oh. didnt see what you were actually saying there. sorry
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(G{in}[AK)TION], that should be your #1 priority. Then tether til your little heart explodes.
The stock OS on your phone isn't doing anything except slowing it down and allowing the company to restrict you.
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(G{in}[AK)TION], that should be your #1 priority. Then tether til your little heart explodes.
The stock OS on your phone isn't doing anything except slowing it down and allowing the company to restrict you.
its a motorola ZN5 that i will be using. are you sure?
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My point was more that the US carriers have no excuse and should get with the times.
'murica where capitalism reigns supreme.
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Greed is the simple answer...but frankly most of us, if we read the TOS. Know that we agreed to not tether.
Meanwhile it is why many of us choose to stay out of contract and buy our own phones. I can tether to either of my Nexus phones on my unlimited plans. No root needed.
Meanwhile it is why many of us choose to stay out of contract and buy our own phones. I can tether to either of my Nexus phones on my unlimited plans. No root needed.
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My point was more that the US carriers have no excuse and should get with the times.
I see no issue with current method(s) of tethering that come with a standard modern device. I was able to tether with my S2, my Nexus, my S3, and my S4 without any additional charge via AT&T. I merely have a 2GB data plan attached. With that 2GB I can tether if I like to or simply not.
And I do not know why an app was brought up for tethering with the S3... Just enable Personal Hotspot and done, there is your wireless tethering. Can also use the S3 to tether by other means (bluetooth, corded, etc.). Has works for me on both stock ROM and CyanogenMOD.
The app, Tasker, allows you to tether without rooting. Android only, I believe.
The "mobile hotspot" menu item is disabled on my phone without having the plan for it. Or at least it was the last time I checked. I really only use it to work in the car on long trips.
The "mobile hotspot" menu item is disabled on my phone without having the plan for it. Or at least it was the last time I checked. I really only use it to work in the car on long trips.
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Which phone if you don't mind my asking
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I don't remember having an issue like that. This is straight from Samsung:
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/supportOwnersHowToGuidePopup.do?howto_guide_seq=6275
Even if you don't use the feature, it should be freely available to you due to the nature of the Google Nexus phones. The only way to be disabled that I can think of is if the carrier had you download an "OTA" firmware update for the phone.
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/supportOwnersHowToGuidePopup.do?howto_guide_seq=6275
Even if you don't use the feature, it should be freely available to you due to the nature of the Google Nexus phones. The only way to be disabled that I can think of is if the carrier had you download an "OTA" firmware update for the phone.
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By your post then I'm assuming you accepted an OTA update from Verizon with or without knowing it? Fook that, I would grab the stock ROM and reflash, that would **** me off to know that I'd be limited whether I plan to use it or not, as I paid for a non-carrier specific unlocked phone.
I am not surprised by that at all. When I had a dial-up internet account my ISP advertised it as being unlimited. When some people started getting their accounts terminated because of excess usage they complained. The ISP explained that they had a provision for fair use which limited the access time to a certain amount.
Today even my ISP Comcast has caps on their downloads. For a long time it was 250GB. Because of the much faster speeds they have now they suspended the caps for the past year to reevaluate the maximum cap value. I hears they are slowly experimenting with bringing back caps that are set at 300GB. After the cap is reached the customer will be charged an overage fee.
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I can see why carriers charge more to tether for those who want unlimited data plans, no complaints there. But for people on tiered plans, they ought to allow tethering (in fact, they should encourage it). If someone has a 2GB plan, and the carrier shows you how easy it is to tether, they'd be more inclined to use it more often, and more inclined to either up their tiered plan, or go over.. both of which net the carrier significant profits.
I have unlimited data on AT&T, and we just got LTE here in the last 18 months or so. For a while I was without a hard internet line while waiting on a replacement modem from my provider, so I turned on the wifi hotspot on my phone to play PC games and even Xbox live.. worked flawlessly, and I never got busted by the gestapo. Even after I hit the 5tb throttle mark, I was still getting between 4-6mb/s and 1mb/s up, which is plenty. I still use the wifi hotspot when on trips where the hotel internet is poor, but that's not too often.
I have unlimited data on AT&T, and we just got LTE here in the last 18 months or so. For a while I was without a hard internet line while waiting on a replacement modem from my provider, so I turned on the wifi hotspot on my phone to play PC games and even Xbox live.. worked flawlessly, and I never got busted by the gestapo. Even after I hit the 5tb throttle mark, I was still getting between 4-6mb/s and 1mb/s up, which is plenty. I still use the wifi hotspot when on trips where the hotel internet is poor, but that's not too often.
It's not really false advertisement. You can still move as much data as you want, but you'll just be limited by how fast you can do it.
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Might slow done once they get more than 8 customers...
Seriously Sprint is a good choice around my neighborhood, and keeps getting better. Its only limited if you travel a lot and get in areas with no coverage...Than its like At&t 6 years ago.
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Bandwidth usage is an inane and illogical excuse, given that there's a cap to start with. Bits are bits. If you happen to have an OpenVPN account somewhere (if you rent a VPS, you can set it up yourself), you might try connecting that on your phone before tethering. The carrier can't do any anti-tethering crap if the connection is encrypted, after all.
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