Disabling direct push

[scarface7174]

I'm having a problem here with direct push screwing up my data connection. While tethering, every once in a while, direct push will become active. When this happens, my data connection will freeze for about 10-20 seconds, then my evdo will be bumped to 1x when the data connection resumes. Then it will stay on 1x anywhere from 2-5mins. This becomes very annoying, especially if I'm downloading because I end up pausing the download and either waiting for connection to go back to evdo, or turning the phone on and off through the connection manage to restore evdo. I did the trick to keep set activesync to manual setting by setting up the fake server (from the old mogul tricks), but direct push will still randomly freeze my data connection. I've done several searches, but the only thing I could come up with is a program that would enable/disable all data. Obviously if I'm tethering, I don't want to stop all data...only direct push.