Tethering as main Internet.
 

If this there is a thread out there like this already i will delete it but i am curious about something. I am moving into a new apartment and internet is 40 bucks a month. Are there anyone out there using tethering with there computer as their main source of online use. I have sprint. If it can be use as as my main source of online i wont even get online and save my 40 bucks a month.

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I have Verizon and I have been using the Internet Sharing program as my main internet since late September. I used the stock intshUI that came with the phone and I never received a tethering charge. I flashed to mightROM last week and I still havent noticed any weird changes to my account, everything is still 29.99 no more or less

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When you say everytign is 29.99 what do you mean by that? I pay 30 on sero so i am confused. Are you able to download music from like limewire with tethering?

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my dad has tethered for his main source of internet on sero since he got the account. never a penny upcharge

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i ran my touch pro on alltel as my only connection for serveral months. great for general internet. bad for things like hulu, netflix streaming, xbox etc. Some streaming sites worked fine if they have good buffer software (like fox.com).

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Im sorry, I was referring to the price of my data plan which is 29.99. Yes I download albums and 600MB avi's from blogs, the whole 9

Even when I had AT&T I used my LG Incite, it ran Windows mobile 6.1 and it had the internet sharing program also. I used this as the main connection do online gaming with my PS3, I bridged the connection with my laptop and it worked perfectly with killzone 2....I miss a GSM carrier because a phone call wouldnt stop my online play but verizon with the cdma will completely pause my connection durring the game and I will eventually be kicked off when the call stops...that sucks, so if I want to play online with my PS3 I need a real ISP

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I live in a very rural area that high speed internet providers service. My options are hughsnet (sattelite like tv but internet), dialup or teathering. I teather.

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i live in the middle of BFE (acronymfinder it) myself and i have zero cell service (not even roaming) but strangely charter runs their 50meg cable internet out there.

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Well from everyone reply so far it sounds like I can tether and not worry about paying a seperate internet Fee for 40 dollars a month which would be more than my sero 30 dollars a month. As long as i can get my songs from Limewire I will be fine.

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I tethered for about 4 months with my TP for sprint. As long as you have unlimited data plan its fine to use w/o getting surplus charges. I am a pc gamer, I noticed once I would get texts/calls/e-mail updates it would start to lag in a game. It would work fine when its not in any other type of use. I enjoyed using it for surfing but downloading songs not so much it can take as much as 5-10 minutes for one song with 3G service. Not to mention if you have a windows update on your pc it takes 3-4 hours for a 45MB download lol... Now imagine if you got in a intense texting convo... it could take a day to download a windows update for your pc. None the less its cheap, good for surfing the web.... not as much for gaming, and multimedia downloads... I gave in about 2 months ago, I had to get cable internet for gaming!

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I added an extra line to my everything family plan for $20 and thats all I do with it, D/L movies ,songs , whatever with no problems

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I used sprint and pdanet for the last two years as my only internet source...most of the time it works great...occaionaly you have to play with it to make it work

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I've been tethering my phone to use Internet for the last 2 months and it seems to work OK. I'm on Verizon and if I get incoming calls or texts, it drops the connection which is frustrating but manageable. I'm on a tight budget so if the inconvenience means saving 50 bucks a month, I can live with that. I checked my download speed at dslreports.com and I'm not happy that I'm only getting .66 megabits per second download. Can't remember what the upload speed was, but it was a lot less. I'm using MightyROM's latest so if anyone can suggest any changes I can make to improve my download speeds, let me know.

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If you want to be able to download FAST, watch video and etc... tethering wont be very fast.. .. Its about the same as the SLOWEST DSL (at least around here).. I tether when needed but still have comcast for my internet because I have 3 internet phone lines, etc and also NEED the fast speed ....

Wirelessly posted (Sprint Touch Pro: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3)

How are you able to tether your touch pro2 to work with the PS3. I cant seem to find a way (wired or wireless) to play off my phones connection. I would love to know how you did it!

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Connections
-PC to PS3 via ethernet
-TP2 to PC via USB

Start the Internet Sharing program and connect through USB.

Once you are connected go to control panel click "Network and Sharing Center"

Under Tasks, go to "Manage Network Connections"

Then locate the TP2's Internet Connection & the PC to PS3 connection, highlight both of them, right click and select Bridge.

It should bridge the connections and your good to go.

Hope you have Vista, if you have a different OS the steps should be similar

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How much data your guys used in a month when tethering is your main internet connection?

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Most I've used is about 4gb/month. Thats streaming some tv, downloading lots of roms and web browsing. pdanet's been great. Saving some cash in these tough times.

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So far the most I've used is 14GB. I'm in college for most of the day and when I get home I might do some casual browsing or downloading before bed and on the weekends

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WOW...you use 14gb in a month?I usually use 4-5 gb a month and afraid Sprint will say something.

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How do you get your router to detect and use your broadcasted internet connection (WMWiFiRouter)????

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If you do above 5 GB a month they can decide to drop you. They will cancal your service without a EFT. I have friends that it happen to. Just a word of warning

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Yeah lol, after I noticed that I was in the clear tethering I went nuts, downloading movies left and right and there hasnt been a problem yet.

It sucks that sprint would drop you, the month I first got my phone I strictly used the browser on the phone and reached slightly over 5GB...but then again I do have Verizon

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I have the sprint unlimited data plan and use my the Mobile Wifi Router to provide my computer with internet. The only unfortunate is where I live 90miles from the city, I only get 15kb/s download and 5kb/s upload. Cellphone signal booster didn't seem to help/

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it's like using dialup with CDMA you gotta choose between internet and phone calls that's the only reason I wouldn't use it as a main source at home, but definitely works well in the car/airport or in the dorms where our wireless internet is less than optimal

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Eww @ 15kb/s, that sucks bruh. I guess im lucky with the 245 kb/s I get, thats still too slow for me at times. I dont always get that much speed its usually around 140-200

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can you walk me through the steps to do this?... you can PM me or do it here, but this would be a perfect solution to my dad's issues. i already have dd-wrt on my WRT54G

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i haven't ever tried it, but, what if the Linksys was left in infrastructure mode, but turn off it's DHCP. Then set wmwifirouter to attach to the wireless not in ad-hoc mode? I would be thinking this should let devices like a wii still attach to the non-adhoc wireless, and it may not need manual intervention on a power cycle of the router? I have been wanting to try this at some point but haven't gotten around to it.

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just use WmWiFiRouter soft and your TP2 becomes wireless router itself(make sure its plugged in as it uses a lot of power and will drain you batt juice fast). Also can connect using bluetooth or even direct usb cable in case you dont have wifi adapter. Need any help - pm me

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There's a step by step on the wiki page

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can i get a link? i honestly can't find it for the life of me

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Originally bought an Incite. And the Geeksquad $10/month no q asked protection. Got on clearance for $50! Knocked off a counter & unrepairable I got a free replacement to top of the line so I got Palm Treo Pro w WM6.1, GPS, 3G, WiFi, IR, BlueTooth, touchscreen+real_keyboard, USB, stereo phone plug, speakerphone etc. whole 9. Sweet! Plus grandfathered into unlimited ATT data for $30/mo (of course plus the "Smartphone" premium charge, argh!).


Tether it to latop with Internet Sharing and during off-peak (abut 10pm-7am) my download manager is able to use multiple connections and I get 250-400KbPS regularly, often 400-700, and Ive even seen it peak at over 1000! Always forced back from that by ATT tho it seems, haha. I can at same time also connect laptop via WiFi broadcast of DSL so that adds an additional 165-230KbPS bandwidth that download manager is able to leverage.



During peak times 8am-8pm it gets pretty sucky tho, G3 only pulls in 75-150KbPS.

I use anywhere from 10 to over 100 G per month depending on how obsessive my downloading of media stuff is. Once ATT sent me a letter sheepishly "noting" how much more data I use than the average of "others", and nearly begging me to please avail myself of WiFi outlets more often. No limits or threats were stated, just the pathetic request which I laughed at and crumpled up into a mini basketball. (I made the shot into the trash btw, hehe).



Only problem is that sometimes both the tether and the WiFi will coexist and keep downloading together for many hours, but many times the tethered ATT 3G decides to stop downloading. I need to either reboot the phone , or I have found go to the properties of the connection, disable the Internet Protocal Version 4 (TCP IPv4), let the internet connection stop (but it maintains connection to the phone), then turn it back on, at which point the adapter resets or something and it opens my G3 tethered data pipe back up again.



Anyone know how to avoid this?



Having the QoS option on does not help, and just takes away several KbPS of speed so I leave that off.