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Originally Posted by maderhatter
Man, i thought this thread was gonna die as fast as I started it. Now its getting informational! Lol. I would be interested in the tethering aspect of rooting, but i thought i read that verizon will eventually notice the increased data usage and tag you with a charge and a slap on the wrist or something? Regardless, I definitely will wait until someone has the Droid all figured out and everyone is ecstatic with the outcome before I jump on board. Im definitely a newb and from what I have seen I will be very happy with the phone as is! Cant lie though, some custom roms I've seen for the G1 are kickazz!  |
typically (as in other OS's) on verizon's cdma network - the "official" tethering solutions use a different identifier (not sure what but it clearly shows to them that you are not using the internet on the phone) so that verizon is very well aware that you are tethering and then can force you to pay the extra tethering fee. PDAnet (at least on Windows Moble and Palmos) and other hacks (which are pretty prolific on WM at least) use the phone's identifier so they have no idea you are tethering. I've read internet posts that people who haven't paid to tether but use the offical methods get redirected to a site that tells you to add tethering to you line.
at one point with verizon there was a soft cap, then there was a hard cap at I think 5GB, and I think now they look at the traffic you are generating and if they deem it "server" related or "file sharing" they will take actions against you.
as others said above I've used the free hacks occasionally- ("emergencies"- a few times a year while traveling) with Palm OS or WinMo and never been "busted"- years back I had pdanet on palmos and literally used it for 8+ hours a day for 2-3 days at a clip when i was working at client sites without wifi and needed the internet for email and some browsing and never got a wrist slap or anything.