Shaggy, much appreciated your help man. I am definitely a very persistent person (as you probably already know
but my persitence can only get things so far because I don't have much in depth technical knowledge. So this thing could be something real simple that I just happen not to have been able to recognize. However, I do believe that it's not a simple matter as it looks like they did go thr great length to really try to clam down on any kind of tethering. Which of course motivated me even more as I really hate any company with any attempt to clam down on users (which is exactly why we are not using an iphone)...
I think I know that sprint and HTC knows the benefits the tether method Wmodem provide compared to ICS which is why looks like they are trying to also clam down on wmodem even though it's very obvious that only a small minority is using wmodem mostly for the benefit of vpn...
Well, I guess I will keep knockin at it....