Mogul and WMWifirouter in the news - Page 2

coolcmar · #1 (**permalink**) 03-26-2008, 05:12 PM

so the answer to my question is YES ???????????????????????????

kilmarac · #2 (**permalink**) 03-26-2008, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by coolcmar

so the answer to my question is YES ???????????????????????????

Do a search on tethering and you will find the there are hundreds of answers to that question. Which all generally say "Theres really no telling if they will charge you for it or not, but to date *I* havent been charged."

At least on Sprint SERO plans (unlimited data from the phone) they either Dont know (I doubt it) or Don't care (its possible).

fenton · #3 (**permalink**) 03-26-2008, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by coolcmar

so the answer to my question is YES ???????????????????????????

Well, it was YES, until these articles came out.

**Lsme420** · #4 (**permalink**) 03-26-2008, 10:37 PM

ChainFire went mainstream. In a day or two we'll see lots of posts about finding this app. (Well a lot more than we do now)

flyingjoey · #5 (**permalink**) 03-27-2008, 01:13 AM

I got an email from the WMWiFIRouter folks letting me know that their 1.0 version is available and that if I wish, I could buy it. It was cheap enough, and I have seen it's value so I paid the 9.99 EURO they where charging.

I do have the software pointing to "SprintPCS" not "Phone as a modem" I do see the "data" numbers changing on the new sprint website, but it keeps reading as "unlimited" so I keep using it.

I used to tether via BT on my old 6700 and my mac (Painfully slow, but it did work), and when I had a pc laptop I'd use a usb cable. I like the WMWiFiThingie concept better.

sHockz · #6 (**permalink**) 03-27-2008, 10:03 AM

9.99 euro is $15 dolla american now. tooooo much when there is a free version that already works well

neodorian · #7 (**permalink**) 03-27-2008, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by sHockz

9.99 euro is $15 dolla american now. tooooo much when there is a free version that already works well

$15 is too much to make a $300-500 phone into a wifi hotspot? I feel like if I can afford the phone and I use the app it's only fair to pay for it. $15 is nothing compared to the cost of the device or even a SERO plan. I guess it's good to have the old version out for free so people can test it but for such a good app I have no problem kicking out $10-20. I spend that much in a few days of eating lunch out anyway

sHockz · #8 (**permalink**) 03-27-2008, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by neodorian

$15 is too much to make a $300-500 phone into a wifi hotspot? I feel like if I can afford the phone and I use the app it's only fair to pay for it. $15 is nothing compared to the cost of the device or even a SERO plan. I guess it's good to have the old version out for free so people can test it but for such a good app I have no problem kicking out $10-20. I spend that much in a few days of eating lunch out anyway

you support whats called "micro charging"

i dont. i believe i should be able to use my 500$ device at full capacity without paying a penny more.

**bedoig** · #9 (**permalink**) 03-28-2008, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by sHockz

you support whats called "micro charging"

i dont. i believe i should be able to use my 500$ device at full capacity without paying a penny more.

Except the ability to tether over WiFi was never a part of it's original capacity. Someone had to take the time to write the program that makes it work, and work well. Sprint never intended to do it. That person should be rewarded in some way (recognition, money, whatever they decide is acceptable) for their time and effort.

Maybe you're car has the potential to go faster with a turbo, does that mean you shouldn't have to pay to achieve that result? I want to be able to use my S2000 at it's full capacity (and it cost significantly more than $500), but I know that additional performance/abilities come at additional cost.

(On second thought, probably should have left out the car metaphor. As soon as one of those appears in a thread it usually degenerates into a useless series of one strained metaphor after another

)

I don't see Chainfire's app as any kind of superfluous add on cost. It adds significant new abilities to the device that it didn't have before. Maybe the hardware was there to support it, but that means absolutely nothing. At least 50% (and usually a lot more) of any tech product is the programming that makes it work. That programming has a cost that is just as real as the physical hardware.

Bottom line. You want new toys, you have to pay for them. Also, if you had thrown a couple of bucks Chainfire's way as a donation earlier, you'd probably have a free license right now. I do.

flyingjoey · #10 (**permalink**) 03-27-2008, 11:33 AM

I have a verizon data card available to use, but I choose to get a mac, and the card I was given is a regular pcmcia card. I have been using my old PPC6700 to tether via BT which is SLOWWWWWWW but it worked, after I found wmwifirouter I saw the speed jump, then 2 weeks ago when I swapped my old 6700 for a 6800 I got even better numbers using wifirouter.

I travel several times a year, and a lot of hotels are starting to charge its customers for going online. The last time I was in San Diego the hotel was charging $12.95 for a day's connection. Even at the hospital where my mom was they charged 8 bucks a days for going online (which I ended up paying). So shelling out 15 bucks for something that will save money in the long run was a no brainer.