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AT&T tethering charges!!!!

Ok, there are news making round, where iphone users got message saying that they have to sign up for tethering plans to use tethering. I don't know if it also applies to Android phones or not?
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My assumption is that they will apply the tethering charge if they can detect a tethered usage. I was hoping someone would create a thread on this so we could compare notes.
So, did any Captivate users with a self-enabled tethering set-up get the AT&T message? Any theories on what you did to make yourself suspicious?
Just for the record I've never tethered yet but i'd like to have the ability to do it in a pinch, with my plain jane $15 a month capped data plan, and I'd be willing to pay for any data overages when I do. But I'll be damned if I'll pay $45 a month just in case I need it some day.

I tether my Captivate with my laptop occasionally and use my phone's wireless AP with my nook on an unlimited data plan. No notice from AT&T, and no extra charges. It does seem that there could be some throttling going on after using quite a bit of data, it could just be coincidence though. When I purchased my Cappy the salesman did say there was no extra charge for tethering, unlike the iPhone's $30 tethering plan, things change though.
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krips2003 said:
Ok, there are news making round, where iphone users got message saying that they have to sign up for tethering plans to use tethering. I don't know if it also applies to Android phones or not?
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That is because until this latest version of IOS that was just released iPhone users could not tether without jailbreaking their phones. They can now legally tether with IOS 4.3.3 I believe. This doesn't have any bearing on the Captivate to the best of my knowledge but that is just my opinion.

No it still has a meaning for us. They are just trying to get more money from people for using services that they can charge you for. So if they can detect it they will try to get money from you
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Here is an article with a good explanation:
http://phandroid.com/2011/03/18/illegal-iphone-tetherers-on-at-android-users-next/

tetherting for free with nexus one

hey sorry if this question has been answered i just bought a nexus one and would like to know if i can tether

yes you can tether. whether you're carrier lets you tether for free is decided by your carrier.

if you have the unlocked version it is built in

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if you have the unlocked version it is built in
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The nexus one does not come locked. It is unlocked by default.

I thought this was true but this question seems to come up a lot.. I have the ATTM version and thought maybe the others have this removed...
Goto Settings > wireless & networks > Tethering & portable hotspot
You can use USB or Wifi... I actually have only used wifi

i use the tether option on my unlimited AT&T data plan and connect my ipod to it without paying the extra fee. In one month i used 8GBs of data.
TAKE THAT AT&T
lol

HWOW said:
i use the tether option on my unlimited AT&T data plan and connect my ipod to it without paying the extra fee. In one month i used 8GBs of data.
TAKE THAT AT&T
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thank you for metering and raising our prices buttmunch. you really showed atnt. and all you have to show for that 8gb of data is how much of an asshat you are and no worthy knowledge to share? who you laughing at? your own stupidity?

Just showing how I take advantage of my UNLIMITED data. Sorry to hear that if the price affected you. I'm sorry that's a problem for you.
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HWOW said:
Just showing how I take advantage of my UNLIMITED data. Sorry to hear that if the price affected you. I'm sorry that's a problem for you.
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what did you show? where's your advantage? what do you have to show for it? your mouth? if you were really taking advantage of it, nobody would know about it, including xda. sorry you fail to apprehend that.

the last time i tried to tether (about a month ago) my devices could connect to my adhoc network, but it seemed as though at&t was somehow detecting and blocking their traffic.
connections always time out while my phone's own web connection worked fine.
similar problems? work arounds?

And this is how we treat noobs on here huh? Not even a welcome to the forums or nothing. Your not even worth my time anymore. Enjoy your limited data plan.
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HWOW said:
And this is how we treat noobs on here huh? Not even a welcome to the forums or nothing. Your not even worth my time anymore. Enjoy your limited data plan.
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Uh... I'm sorry for your being miss treated it's just that I'm not exactly sure what your displeasure is about. A welcome your right it's true that I haven't seen many welcomes around here but that's not really a big deal to me so that is why I didn't fuss about it but if it bothered you I'm sorry. Now other than that I don't understand why you're displeased?

sarshadd said:
the last time i tried to tether (about a month ago) my devices could connect to my adhoc network, but it seemed as though at&t was somehow detecting and blocking their traffic.
connections always time out while my phone's own web connection worked fine.
similar problems? work arounds?
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How is it possible for AT&T to detect the tethered traffic? In theory shouldn't it be the same?

It's cool. Pukemon is being a punkmon. That's all really.
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How is it possible for AT&T to detect the tethered traffic? In theory shouldn't it be the same?
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I'm not the best person to ask but there are ways to tell; user agents, deep packet inspection, the sheer volume of traffic.
That's why I was posting, to ask.

Wireless Tether on Bionic

Has anyone gotten wireless tether to work on rooted Bionic yet? I can get connected, but it seems as though verizon's hotspot tries to start with it and thus blocking an IP from being given out and any internet tethering to my devices.

I was an avid user of wireless tether but please do not use it while still running stock rom. Verizon and motorola have security features built into the stock software to help them track people using what they consider illeagal tether apps. Please refrain from using such apps until there is a custom ROM released so as to avoid bringing us to the forefront of verizons attention. In the meantime use pdanet USB tether app located in market. It is important that we as a community stop using our knowledge to continue pushing carriers and handset manufacturers from locking us out completely. If we continue our current trend of outrite defiance in use of these wireless tether apps (wheather you think it should be ok or not is irrelevent until a court rules on it) we are only hurting ourselves in the long run. Please for now use pdanet or similar USB tether app as they are not frowned upon by carriers. If you need to know why here it is, USB apps allow only one device to be connected which limits bandwidth used at one time, wireless tethers allow you to run everything in your house simultatiously greatly increasing individual strain on the network and makeing the user experience for all worse in the long run as the network can only handle so much.
Well, there it all is, an informed public is a better public... Happy modding to all.
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I was an avid user of wireless tether but please do not use it while still running stock rom. Verizon and motorola have security features built into the stock software to help them track people using what they consider illeagal tether apps. Please refrain from using such apps until there is a custom ROM released so as to avoid bringing us to the forefront of verizons attention. In the meantime use pdanet USB tether app located in market. It is important that we as a community stop using our knowledge to continue pushing carriers and handset manufacturers from locking us out completely. If we continue our current trend of outrite defiance in use of these wireless tether apps (wheather you think it should be ok or not is irrelevent until a court rules on it) we are only hurting ourselves in the long run. Please for now use pdanet or similar USB tether app as they are not frowned upon by carriers. If you need to know why here it is, USB apps allow only one device to be connected which limits bandwidth used at one time, wireless tethers allow you to run everything in your house simultatiously greatly increasing individual strain on the network and makeing the user experience for all worse in the long run as the network can only handle so much.
Well, there it all is, an informed public is a better public... Happy modding to all.
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What I have read is that this is a scare tactic, none of it is true. GL

yutzyscott said:
I was an avid user of wireless tether but please do not use it while still running stock rom. Verizon and motorola have security features built into the stock software to help them track people using what they consider illeagal tether apps. Please refrain from using such apps until there is a custom ROM released so as to avoid bringing us to the forefront of verizons attention. In the meantime use pdanet USB tether app located in market. It is important that we as a community stop using our knowledge to continue pushing carriers and handset manufacturers from locking us out completely. If we continue our current trend of outrite defiance in use of these wireless tether apps (wheather you think it should be ok or not is irrelevent until a court rules on it) we are only hurting ourselves in the long run. Please for now use pdanet or similar USB tether app as they are not frowned upon by carriers. If you need to know why here it is, USB apps allow only one device to be connected which limits bandwidth used at one time, wireless tethers allow you to run everything in your house simultatiously greatly increasing individual strain on the network and makeing the user experience for all worse in the long run as the network can only handle so much.
Well, there it all is, an informed public is a better public... Happy modding to all.
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Just curious, why would they frown upon wireless tether yet pdanet is "acceptable"? Either way you're bypassing the tethering charge. I can see how wifi tethering would lend itself to a greater amount of abuse as you could have multiple devices using it concurrently - but you can do that with pdanet as well with a little more effort. So I'm wondering how you reached this conclusion? Thanks.

Im confused as to how doing wifi connection is more of a burden than usb. Either connection you're bandwidth is still limited to your 3G or 4G service. On 3G my download speeds are around 3mbs. This is usb or wifi. Now that bing said. If i connect my computer by itself, I keep all this speed to myself. Connecting my wifes computer, xbox, etc. This doesn't bump ky speed to 3mbs per device. Now the 3 devices are sharing the 3mbs im able to connect at. So pleased enlighten me how usb is more acceptable than wifi? All you spam nothing but fear with no actual proof. This has been goingnon since the.DROID OG, and I still have read no proof, just scarce ramblings of people who think they know what they're talking about. P3Droid has stated that the tethering is coming to an end, and that they're getting smart enough to detect it, but still nothings happened yet. Usb or wifi you're "stealing" internet from Verizon, get over yourself and do it or don't.

This will probably only come when we get custom roms.

Wireless Tether
I have GOT to be able to use Wireless Tether on my Bionic. I had a D2 but am in limbo trying to get it back to stock so I just decided to order the Bionic, root it and use Wireless Tether because I really don't know what I am doing, have already spent WAY TOO much time trying to get my D2 to work and am VERY frustrated. :-(
I am hearing mixed messages. Does ANYONE have any experience with using it? I am going to use the D3 root method to access the app.
Thanks for any input anyone can give me!
Jeni

hurleygirlie05 said:
I have GOT to be able to use Wireless Tether on my Bionic. I had a D2 but am in limbo trying to get it back to stock so I just decided to order the Bionic, root it and use Wireless Tether because I really don't know what I am doing, have already spent WAY TOO much time trying to get my D2 to work and am VERY frustrated. :-(
I am hearing mixed messages. Does ANYONE have any experience with using it? I am going to use the D3 root method to access the app.
Thanks for any input anyone can give me!
Jeni
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Since tethering with a USB cord works, what's keeping you from doing that?

I've tried all the apps out there to no avail. According to what I've read, you'll havento have 2 separate programs on your computer and get into the actual coding on the antenna side of the phone to over ride this. Easy fix is keep a DROID that the tether works on, and activate it on myverizon.com, and deactivate it when you're done. It takes less than 2 minutes to do this. A headache, yes, but a simple fix till someone comes up with a patch or better way.
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oildriller83 said:
I've tried all the apps out there to no avail. According to what I've read, you'll havento have 2 separate programs on your computer and get into the actual coding on the antenna side of the phone to over ride this. Easy fix is keep a DROID that the tether works on, and activate it on myverizon.com, and deactivate it when you're done. It takes less than 2 minutes to do this. A headache, yes, but a simple fix till someone comes up with a patch or better way.
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What? you can do that with your old phone, do u just dial *228 to activate it?

*288 works on older phones to program them to the 3G network for data and voice. I don't know how all the 4G phones are, but the bionic's programmed and roaming capabilities are done through a 4G sim card in the phone. The bionic wont even allow a *288 phone call to go through
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oildriller83 said:
*288 works on older phones to program them to the 3G network for data and voice. I don't know how all the 4G phones are, but the bionic's programmed and roaming capabilities are done through a 4G sim card in the phone. The bionic wont even allow a *288 phone call to go through
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So I can take my OG droid with wireless tether and call *288 and it will activate and I can use it to tether from, then when I want to go back to my Bionic what do I do to activate it? goto my verizone online and do it. This is the one of the things I miss about the OG Droid do whatever I wanted on it with no issues, just was old and slow at the end. The Bionic 4g of course just screams through any D/L, Netflix etc.

*228 on lte fries sim cards. Fact

nerdslogic said:
*228 on lte fries sim cards. Fact
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Wrong. It fries them if they haven't been activated. After activation it does nothing.

Droid 14 said:
So I can take my OG droid with wireless tether and call *288 and it will activate and I can use it to tether from, then when I want to go back to my Bionic what do I do to activate it? goto my verizone online and do it. This is the one of the things I miss about the OG Droid do whatever I wanted on it with no issues, just was old and slow at the end. The Bionic 4g of course just screams through any D/L, Netflix etc.
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you'll have to activate both from myverizon.com. First thing you'll have to do is go to myverizon.com and activate you Droid OG with the ESN number, then dial *228 to get service. then you can use your phone as you were before. when you're done, go back to myverizon.com and reactivate your Droid Bionic, and turn it on with your sim card and it activates its self. I myself, have dialed *288 several times on my Bionic, and it has done no ill things to my sim card. I've actually been swapping sim cards out from other companies and trying to unlock my phone and haven't damaged anything yet. (not recommending this tho)

why not just use wired tether?
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Since tethering with a USB cord works, what's keeping you from doing that?
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Work computer won't allow new software to be installed. There is no difference between wireless tether and wired tether. In fact, wired gives a faster connection. It's garbage that we can't use our own bought phone for whatever the hell we want.
I tried to freeze using bloat freezer the mobile hotspot program from popping up but the program doesn't not show up in AND tried to use Root System Tool to identify and quit the program after opening Garden Wifi--- NO DICE.
Need something to quit mobile hotspot from popping up. NOTHING HAS WORKED!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpv02ClDmsU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Check this out
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oildriller83 said:
you'll have to activate both from myverizon.com. First thing you'll have to do is go to myverizon.com and activate you Droid OG with the ESN number, then dial *228 to get service. then you can use your phone as you were before. when you're done, go back to myverizon.com and reactivate your Droid Bionic, and turn it on with your sim card and it activates its self. I myself, have dialed *288 several times on my Bionic, and it has done no ill things to my sim card. I've actually been swapping sim cards out from other companies and trying to unlock my phone and haven't damaged anything yet. (not recommending this tho)
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Hi is true you can activate a 3g phone using
*228 but if you deactivate a4g phone you will need a new Sim card
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owenbeals said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpv02ClDmsU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Check this out
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Has this been confirmed as working? I'm supposed to root a bionic for a friend of mine who really wants to use wireless tether. Thanks

bisco3214 said:
Has this been confirmed as working? I'm supposed to root a bionic for a friend of mine who really wants to use wireless tether. Thanks
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It's confirmed to work, but it's also very possible VZ can just track it easily since you're using their service and they'll stick you on a tiered plan paying tons more than the grandfathered unlimited plan. With custom ROMs there is software that prevents them from seeing if you are browsing the web on your handset or using it to power your laptop. Be careful.

root: free tether: use 3g on same phone

Hi, Im interested in rooting my G note.
I rooted my HTC HD2 a long time ago and it was just alot better (custom roms). HOWEVER:
Im interested in this android tether application: Obviously you can tether you 3g you pay for monthly with the phones default settings. BUT
using root access, does this mean you can cancel your contract!, get a pay as you go contract, use the android tether to effectively steal the 3g data and then stream it to the same phone over wifi and browse for instance on Opera mini, mobile firefox, receive email over it?
or, is it the case that you can only tether to other devices such as ipod touch,,another wifi capable phone?
I can't really see the use in this otherwiseunless you carry around two phones all the time.
Can someone clear this up please because all the videos Ive watched they only prove it works on another device.
thanks very much, and I hope this works
by the way , I am based in the UK, have the standard european version and Im on a 3g network called 3. If this only works withother uk providers Id be happy to switch to orange/t-mobile , O2 etc

fudge2011toffeebar said:
using root access, does this mean you can cancel your contract!, get a pay as you go contract, use the android tether to effectively steal the 3g data and then stream it to the same phone over wifi and browse for instance on Opera mini, mobile firefox, receive email over it?
I can't really see the use in this otherwiseunless you carry around two phones all the time.
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Forgive me as i dont really understand what you're looking for. Is there a link to the tethering app you're speaking of? Tethering apps are usually so you can use your phones 3g for your laptop/pc. If youre on 3, then youre unlimited bundle comes in handy. A friend of mine tethers his sgs2 t9 his laptop using unlimited 3g as his broadband connection and has done for some time now without being restricted.
I dont understand when you say "steal the 3g from a pay as you go phone" to your note? That seems pointless. Surely yiu could just stick the pay as you go sim into your note?
Also, there are a lot of tethering apps that dont require root access.
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I thought one of the advantages of rooting your phone is to be able to not pay the monthly contract and use the tethering wifi from whichever network your on.
this guy says it in the first few minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVXMjVpMX2k&feature=related
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Also, there are a lot of tethering apps that dont require root access.
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yeh I know this....so...
oh, so it is only when you have a data plan already, you get tethering for free. when rooted. Nothing special then. ''. ?
so you can't have no data plan and effectively steal free data? ? '',
oh wait: having said that i was thethering a few months ago and my bill was huge: so I dont get it for free..
so reverting my original question:: does this work on the 3 network in the uk? thx
also:
couldn't i just root like an old samsung galaxy, keep it in my left pocket, travel the world , lol and keep a galaxy note in the other pocket using the wifi from the old samsung?
Im a little confused too, couldn't you do this with no data plan, i.e pay as you go and when you connect to 'data 3g' they charge you as you go, but effectively just tether it to another phone for free? so basically you would just pay for calls and not internet?

Ok, what the guy is on about is thqt operators in us charge an extra bolt on for the priveledge of enabling tethering. O2 used to do it when tethering was first enabled on the iphone 3gs, it was 10 quid a month or something rediculous.
Im pretty sure that now its free to enable tethering in the uk. All it means is that you can pair your phone using existing data plan to your laptop or pc, and effectively use it as a mobile 3g modem.
So yes, tethering will work on any network or rom, you're just limited by your existing data plan as to how worthwhile it is. If you get a 3 all you can eat data plan, then its unlimited, but of course speeds are pretty crappy.
Im sure there is a way to hack an operators 3g networks and get data for free but would imagine thats a bit beyond xda's strict code of ethics
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I see, what I meant when I got charged alot was that I went over the 5GB limit.
If I was to tether for free, using the root access, would I basically 'eat up that data' whilst tethering to another device for free?
As you know, in the uk, the tethering access most commonly comes under the same data plan and isn't free in that regard.

Yes, tethering just uses your existing data plan. Try getting one of 3's all you can eats if possible, im sure theyd be willing to if you call them up.
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To me it looks more like you have no idea about what rooting and tethering really is/does.... Since what you are asking is completely ridiculous...
You want to use your 3G data to send it over wifi, back to the same phone......
You can just cut out the tether part and use your 3G directly........
it's like getting into the car by entering into the trunk to get out by the back door to finally open the drivers door and sit in the drivers seat, instead of just open the drivers door right away like normal minded ppl would do.....

Guess we all start somewhere, i was confused as hell when i started out with smartphones.
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friedje said:
To me it looks more like you have no idea about what rooting and tethering really is/does.... Since what you are asking is completely ridiculous...
You want to use your 3G data to send it over wifi, back to the same phone......
You can just cut out the tether part and use your 3G directly........
it's like getting into the car by entering into the trunk to get out by the back door to finally open the drivers door and sit in the drivers seat, instead of just open the drivers door right away like normal minded ppl would do.....
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friedje said:
it's like getting into the car by entering into the trunk to get out by the back door to finally open the drivers door and sit in the drivers seat, instead of just open the drivers door right away like normal minded ppl would do.....
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just come back to this thread after a few hours: no its not because you would be getting it for free.
It is more like buying a drivers door and not actually owning a boot door or side door
surely?!
Don't you understand?? In the uk you can have a pay as you go contract and then pay extra for 3g when you use it, so instinct would suggest you could effetcivel climb into your car through the boot and into the drivers seat!!! to use the pay as you go 3g (for free) through tethering(eg the metaphorical boot ) and use the wifi receiver of the phone to use it!!! (eg the metaphorical drivers seat )
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But anyway I understood from before that the phone can't receive that own signal. Although now Im questioning either the other persons understanding or your ignorance So what Im now saying is 'yes its useful'. But does it work in the uk where the tethering is just the same usage of the data plan eg 5GB????
Im sure I could ask 3 for unlimted but tbh the people at their contact centre are umbelievably annoying. Id prefer to use this way of tethering as it'd give me an excuse to put effort into rooting my device anyway

Strange logic indeed... Pretty sure the car would have blown up and you'd be in hospital!
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strange humour. Has no one got a striaight answer to this.
Or can i assume everyone on this forum is mobile obsessed, and works for mobile phone network companies

Answer answered a few times.
I dont think you understand the principals of tethering or a normal data connection.
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So, if i was to tether having rooted the phone, it would still cost me is that what your saying?
because I don't think that was said at all ?

Tether uses data from the phone. If you have no data plan, you cant tether full stop.
If you know of a way to hack 3's 3g network, please let me know, i'll transfer now.
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i just found this, but, since you can have payg internet i see no reason why you couldn't tether .. Correct me if im wrong but it just seemed a naturally progressive assumption.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=719110
sorry i can't just take your word for it ,
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ok I found this though http://technoratia.com/2011/12/30/three-uks-position-on-tethering-devices-to-your-phone/ three don't allow tethering on payg,,, (as its their policy)
suppose someone must do in the uk??? then it would work right? presuming the tethering is alos in the payg form and not monthly eg bolt on to a payg plan.

giffgaff allow tethering from payg but you wil lbe paying a hell of alot of money to tether on a non contract tarriff
you cannot tether if you do not have the creit on payg or a contract that gives you data each month
what exactly are you trying to achive ? internet on your laptop for free from a mobile connection and dropping a home broadband connection?

You cannot resend a tethered signal from a phone back to itself as the tethering itself uses the phone's WIFI module, and as such cannot connect to the WIFI hotspot since the phone has no additional WIFI modules. So what you're asking for is literally impossible under normal circumstances.
Also, am I right in understanding that what you're asking for is bordering on fraud/theft of services?

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You cannot resend a tethered signal from a phone back to itself as the tethering itself uses the phone's WIFI module, and as such cannot connect to the WIFI hotspot since the phone has no additional WIFI modules. So what you're asking for is literally impossible under normal circumstances.
Also, am I right in understanding that what you're asking for is bordering on fraud/theft of services?
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He is trying to enter a Tesco, and eat their M&M's without opening the bag....
And consequently not opening his wallet either
And he still doesn't understand rooting, dataplans or tethering, which isn't a bad thing, but he could just take our word for it, or read up on it.

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He is trying to enter a Tesco, and eat their M&M's without opening the bag....
And consequently not opening his wallet either
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Lol... Too true.
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TMO starts data throttling again.

T-Mobile starts data throttling. I knew this carrier was to good to be true. This sounds like a breach of contract to me. Im in a contract and pay for unlimited data without throttling. I asked the sales rep before I left AT&T, and was assured and even have it in writing. Contract is no longer binding if they breech and continue to breech contract.
This is ridiculous.
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http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/13/t-mobile-cracks-down-on-data-abusers/
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Maybe they not making enough money as folks thought they was and being abused on the data is hurting them real bad maybe? T mobile needs a buyer badly they need a merger or something to help them with the cash to be able to do everything they want to do they came along way and did good but they can't keep going unless they get help.

Before you listen to he say she say read for yourself. Tmobile throttling will only affect P2P users and people using third party tethering to go beyond the tethering limit. The CEO of Tmobile already cleared up if you use 1TB for data browsing, netflix, hulu, and etc your safe.

1 TB of data? And how are they to tell or decide who is using a third party apk to tether beyond limit? Its a violation of privacy to go into you phone and see from where or how you use your data.

mattwheat said:
1 TB of data? And how are they to tell or decide who is using a third party apk to tether beyond limit? Its a violation of privacy to go into you phone and see from where or how you use your data.
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When you signed up for tmobile youe were guaranteed unlimited data on your phone only not unlimited tethering to other devices or downloading illegal torrents.

I don't download any torrents of any kind..... Don't know where you got that. And I only have 3 gigs of tether after that its shut off. So...... Where were you headed with that.....

mattwheat said:
1 TB of data? And how are they to tell or decide who is using a third party apk to tether beyond limit? Its a violation of privacy to go into you phone and see from where or how you use your data.
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They don't have to decide...... They know the limitations of hardware and how much it can down load. Also it's not what you have on your phone, it's how much data your using from their network. Which your using their network, so there is no violation of privacy.
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mattwheat said:
I don't download any torrents of any kind..... Don't know where you got that. And I only have 3 gigs of tether after that its shut off. So...... Where were you headed with that.....
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So why are you complaining about throttling when it wont affect you

Cuz I still pull 50+ gigs a month. And its the principle of it. Advertise one thing then get a bunch of people to switch to T-Mobile then change the rules in the middle of the game.

And this didn't really start as a complaint. I started the thread to inform people. Share information to make others aware.

We gotcha........
T-mobile is just doing the something that Metro PCS did years ago. And just saying, hey for those who are abusing the network we will step in and throttle you down if you keep it up.
It won't effect people who aren't abusing the network. Only the people who are.
T-Mobile's thing is to give those people fare warning before they do throttle them down.
So if your using under 50GB a month you probably have nothing to worry about. But if you're a person who is using 300GB then you might be throttled down. Just for example.
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T-Mobile CEO stated you can use 1 TB of data and you still wont be throttled. T-mobile is only throttling users who use 3rd party apps to bypass the monthly tethering limit I'm on unlimited everything so my tethering limit is 5gb . T-Mobile will also throttle u if your using there serivce for p2p/torrents most content is copyrighted and illegal to download anyway plus its heavy on uploading on tmobile network. If you dont do the two things i posted your safe from throttled.

mattwheat said:
And this didn't really start as a complaint. I started the thread to inform people. Share information to make others aware.
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really 3 gbs only?
this coming from the same guy who was raving about how to downloaded something to let him tether to his hearts content?
have you forgotten we can see your post history?

tomthedancingbug said:
really 3 gbs only?
this coming from the same guy who was raving about how to downloaded something to let him tether to his hearts content?
have you forgotten we can see your post history?
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3gb is all I get for free. Using the tether hack I get a lot more. But it's kinda like a car. When I bought it it only gets 24 mpg but after the modifications done it gets 27 mpg. Does that give the dealership right to charge me more or the gas station the right to charge me more. And no I'm smart enough to know you can read my history of post just glad you're smart enough to know how to do that. Now are you smart enough to know how to pull your finger out of your ass and move on past this. Since I've explained that this post was only to inform people of tmobiles future plans. Well you ought to be cuz that's in my post history too.

Boom he just got served lmao

They slowed me down at 100gb, no tethering at all