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Wireless tether is the most amazing thing in years

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LAN poker with the girlfriend on her ipod while on the train or otherwise = ill.

Real question: ANyone got a good NUMBER I should keep the data transfer under per month to keep sprint from caring?

Also.. whats the worst case with sprint if they find out anyway.. besides being charged like an aircard fee?
 
Sure, but for me Bluetooth tethering is overrated anyway. With my Samsung M610 I thought it was cool to turn on my laptop and have the internet there just because I had my phone in my pocket. Now with my Hero and PdaNet I think it's cool to have much faster USB connect speeds and the little cable connecting my laptop to the phone in my pocket. :)
 
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Sure, but for me Bluetooth tethering is overrated anyway. With my Samsung M610 I thought it was cool to turn on my laptop and have the internet there just because I had my phone in my pocket. Now with my Hero and PdaNet I think it's cool to have much faster USB connect speeds and the little cable connecting my laptop to the phone in my pocket. :)

really? I pulled 3.2 mbps with the wifi tethering.
 
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I'm not sure what you mean by "wi-fi tethering." Are you talking about Bluetooth tethering of a computer to a phone with a wi-fi connection? In my location I seldom reach 1 mbps with the phone itself. In any case your 3.2 mbps is pretty fast. My understanding is that the Hero has Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, which supposedly has a maximum speed around 3 mbps and a practical maximum around 2 mbps.

It could be that my slow BT tether with my M610 was due to some phone limitation or the way I had to treat it as a modem rather than the Bluetooth medium itself. My dismissing Bluetooth tethering may have been premature. I'll let you know just as soon as 2.1 gets here. ;)
 
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Speed differences aside, power consumption is the predominant issue with these newer phones which are pushing many more electronics around... bluetooth tether should be significantly lower on battery draw.

On a side note: BT tether has been performed by treo 650 users on sprint for the past 5 years (assuming they knew about shadowmites' dial up networking hack that he uncovered before palm/sprint released the BT DUN option in one of the earlier updates) ...only difference is that the hero should be good for about 10 times the bandwidth! :)
 
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You have the bluetooth option and then you have the wifi options. the wifi option basically makes your phone a wireless router.

I'm not sure what you mean by "wi-fi tethering." Are you talking about Bluetooth tethering of a computer to a phone with a wi-fi connection? In my location I seldom reach 1 mbps with the phone itself. In any case your 3.2 mbps is pretty fast. My understanding is that the Hero has Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, which supposedly has a maximum speed around 3 mbps and a practical maximum around 2 mbps.

It could be that my slow BT tether with my M610 was due to some phone limitation or the way I had to treat it as a modem rather than the Bluetooth medium itself. My dismissing Bluetooth tethering may have been premature. I'll let you know just as soon as 2.1 gets here. ;)
 
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You have the bluetooth option and then you have the wifi options. the wifi option basically makes your phone a wireless router.
Sorry, I'm still confused about "wi-fi tethering." Obviously if I have my ISP connected to a wireless router my phone can receive the internet connection from that router by wi-fi. With BT or USB tethering the phone could then share that connection with, say, a laptop, although there wouldn't be much point since most laptops have their own wi-fi and can connect directly to the wireless router instead of going through the phone.

But are you saying that it's possible to tether via wi-fi? In other words, that I can share the phone's own EV-DO connection with a laptop that has wi-fi? If so, I didn't know that. If not then I still don't know what you mean by "wi-fi tethering."
 
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Yes, I think it will most likely always require rooting. It's not likely that the carriers will officially support it any time soon, because they don't really want you using your 3G service on a regular computer. They want you to buy one of their 3g usb adapters and a 2nd data plan instead.

It requires an app called "Wifi-Tether" which is very easy to use.
 
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Yes, sprucebeach. That is what they are talking about. When you are away from a wifi hotspot/router you can share phone's 3G connection with a laptop via the phone's wifi capabilities. You have to have a rooted phone for it to work though.

Ah, thanks flammenwurfer. I had no idea. Is this likely to always require rooting or might it be available with a higher Android version? And does it require an app?

Yes, I think it will most likely always require rooting. It's not likely that the carriers will officially support it any time soon, because they don't really want you using your 3G service on a regular computer. They want you to buy one of their 3g usb adapters and a 2nd data plan instead.

It requires an app called "Wifi-Tether" which is very easy to use.

Sorry I did not clarify that I was root'd. it is in my sig but yeah, that is exactly what i was talking about (flammenwurfer's explanation). The wifi tether works great.

What is REALLY funny, I was in the airport yesterday and had my wifi tether on and a guy sat near me and then I saw him open his laptop and try to connect to my wifi. I looked over at him and said, "Sir, if you would like to share my 3g connection that will be $5". he gave me a funny look and shut his laptop back down.
 
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Awesome!!! Manually rooted the phone then installed PDAnet and the USB tether is ZOOMIN!!

I'm in a metal building with like one bar on the 1xx network and its quick so I can't imagine once I have a solid 3g connection will be like!!

Was gonna try the BT but I dont have 2.1 installed yet,,, any other options to bypass this speedbump??
 
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Awesome!!! Manually rooted the phone then installed PDAnet and the USB tether is ZOOMIN!!

I'm in a metal building with like one bar on the 1xx network and its quick so I can't imagine once I have a solid 3g connection will be like!!

Was gonna try the BT but I dont have 2.1 installed yet,,, any other options to bypass this speedbump??

If you are rooted there is no need for a usb. you can create a wifi connection and secure that or you can use bluetooth to connect.
 
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It requires an app called "Wifi-Tether" which is very easy to use.
Strange, I can't seem to find this app. Either thru the Market or in the AndroLib database.
I've been using my 3g/4g modem but I would like a fall back option which is why I have pdanet, but for some reason having been able to get it to work since I rooted.
Anyone know where the wifi-Tether can be found.

TS out
 
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