I can't believe I haven't seen this mentioned here ...
Folks on XDA have figured out that you can use tethering on the Inspire without a tethering plan and without rooting simply by adding an new APN in the phone's settings. Simply add an APN with the following settings:
APN=wap.cingular
Proxy=wireless.cingular.com
Port=80
Uname=WAP@CINGULAR.COM
PW=CINGULAR1
MMS Protocol=WAP 2.0
MCC=310
MNC=410
For many people that allows tethering to work. So far there has been no indication that this can be detected and force you into the tethering add-on (if they could detect it, one would think it would be disabled by now).
More details in the XDA thread: Wifi HotSpot works on Std ROM! no root needed - xda-developers
Folks on XDA have figured out that you can use tethering on the Inspire without a tethering plan and without rooting simply by adding an new APN in the phone's settings. Simply add an APN with the following settings:
APN=wap.cingular
Proxy=wireless.cingular.com
Port=80
Uname=WAP@CINGULAR.COM
PW=CINGULAR1
MMS Protocol=WAP 2.0
MCC=310
MNC=410
For many people that allows tethering to work. So far there has been no indication that this can be detected and force you into the tethering add-on (if they could detect it, one would think it would be disabled by now).
More details in the XDA thread: Wifi HotSpot works on Std ROM! no root needed - xda-developers