Help Hotspot question

geoclooney · Mar 3, 2013

I used SVTP for hotspot on my old ICS phone. To use it, you would open the app and type in the settings for your hotspot, and the notification bar would show an SVTP icon while the hotspot was active.

On my new Note 2 (Verizon), I've tried SVTP, Foxfi, Fattin and one or two others. They all do the same thing--activate the native Android "Mobile Hotspot." To be clear, this process works for me, in that when I set up the "Mobile Hotspot" app, other devices connect and they have internet access. The icon in the notification bar is the native "Mobile Hotspot" icon.

I get no popup about signing up for hotspot services, and I've checked My Verizon and it doesn't show I'm signed up for mobile hotspot. But I'm worried that if it's using the native app that I'm somehow detectable or otherwise subject to Verizon adding the hotspot feature to my plan.

Should I be worrying and/or looking for other options, or should I man up, be happy it works and get on with my life?

donas · Mar 3, 2013

Why don't you just turn on the hotspot feature under the setting menu and forgo the additional app?

Using the note 2 as a hotspot shares the data from your current plan, legally within the guidelines of Verizon. Now if you're question is in reference to circumventing that, I don't have an answer for ya.

dave1812 · Mar 3, 2013

I use Portable Wi Fi Hotspot app. it's free. works well (I like it better than Foxfi, which one now has to pay for for full features).

it's silly to pay the carrier, IMO. I pay over $150/a month for two phones. I'm not about to dish out even more, to use the unlimited data I have, on a RARE basis, on a device other than my phone. What I use in hotspot mode doesn't amount to a tenth of one percent of all the data I normally use for the phone only.

donas · Mar 3, 2013

What am I missing here, I don't pay any more to use the hotspot feature on the Note 2....it's just a toggle button like any other feature on the phone, use it - or don't use it...Verizon doesn't care.

bob52r · Mar 3, 2013

I value my unlimited data plan. Verizon charges $30 per month to use verizon tethering with an unlimited data pan. verizon does not charge nor block other tethering app's from the playstore because the FCC will not let them.

i have best results with portable wifi hot spot. when you set the security level hi 128 bit--you are making the processor work haqrd and there is a significant reduction in speed of the hotspot vs the verizon data available.

use a lower level of security for a faster, happier hotspot.

if you don't care about unlimited data, ignore my post and just tether through verizon. verizon is tring to get rid of all the unlimited data plans and is always offering me insentives to give up my unlimited plan. the fcc
will not let them force us off the plans.

the future is more and more data driven app and functions

geoclooney · Mar 3, 2013

Okay, I get the message I have nothing to fear from using the native hotspot.

If that's the case, why does Verizon offer the $30/mo hotspot plan & why would anyone ever buy it?

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