looks like sprint locked it down. you can use easy tehter (i couldn't get it to work) or pdanet (i did get this work). you connect to the pc, select charge only and make sure you have usb debugging turned on.

when you connect via teh usb tether option, it shuts down 4g and 3g. sucks.

 

so, pdanet still works? thats awesome, i just connected this yesterday and was wondering if it still worked after froyo. i cant wait to get home and try it!

 

pda net worked, but was relatively slow. (full bar 3G)

If I can I will go to my 4G(3bar) area, and try it again during lunch, and give results.

 

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They indeed locked it down, as they should.

 

PDANet working well for me, no issues at all after the froyo update.

 

Thats debatable

 

Anyone else have Froyo speed reports with PDAnet?

 

i was pulling 1.3-1.4 download speeds last night. not good at all. on 2.1 with internet sharing, i was pulling 4+ on a regular basis.

the network in general seemed slow last night. seems faster today. i did pull 9.11 megs down on teh evo, but not tethered. will report back tonight with updated pdanet speeds

 

No it's not. Using their app you should expect to pay for the service as they clearly state ahead of time. There are software alternatives.

 

I am using easytether via my phone (turned off wireless on computer) to send this message on my computer. Do not set your phone to USB tether. Just set it to disk drive. But it works fine.


pwnst*r - I do not agree, USB tethering had nothing to do with the services of the phone, they should NOT lock it down. The more they lock down, the more apple-like they become. They offer a wireless tether for several devices. THAT should be locked down. Wired tether should not. Period.

 

Oh I may need to add that I'm on .3 and not .6 though. If they have locked it down in .6 all the better that I'm on .3. I'd be ticked without my usb tether.

 

From a sprint persepctive it might make sense to lock it down (get more hot spot sign ups), from a consumer perspective, it sucks that they locked it down. (gotta pay for hot spot or a thrid party app)

so yes, it's debatable depending on if you are sprint or the consumer.

so at the end of the day, they have cost me and a number of other people 10-20 bucks and they haven't helped their bottom line, at least not from us. I'm sure some people will sign up for the hot spot now.

 

This is stupid. What was the point of including this feature if Sprint will just make it non useable?

 

to get $30 per month from you.

or make you pay for pdanet (or other software of that style)

 

They already have $60 a month from me for this lame Overdrive that only works well on occasion, so they can suck it.

 

I can understand that point of view as well.

 

Comon, we all know it will get rooted and people will still be running hotspot as they already are. And I mean the full hotspot, not just wired tethering. They people they are getting money from are the same people they would have been getting money from anyways. People that have to have it and don't care what their phone bill is.

 

i just went to the verizon site and priced out a incredible and its 20.00 bux for the hotspot, so verizon charges also

 

PDANet works for me. But I'm having a problem using MS VPN to connect.