Tethering Alltel Touch to Notebook...

[earthdan]

So you have been dl torrents thru the phone using a phone torrent app? Won't bell know that there are a million IP's that you are connecting to when downloading? Thats pretty cool that it works tho, whats the app you use?

As far as info on pdanet, there is a thread in here that somebody says pdanet hides tethering. sorry bout the noobness but I don't know how to link that thread here, its called Tether with Sprint Touch (just want simple answer plz)-. One of the posts said
"the point of using Pdanet is so you CAN tether to your bell phone, without an extra data plan or charges..."

Another place I found some info was on a motorola q forum
http://www.hellomotoq.com/forums/ver...ying-15-a.html
look at the 5th post down and the discussion continues after that.

Another place on howardforums-
http://www.howardforums.com/showthre...readid=1287318
They also talk about the registry change to disable MultiNai

On the same note when I set up tethering I also changed some registry settings that I found somewhere that also mask the tethering (apparently) including that multinai thing.

those reg changes were
1. hklm/software/oem/wmodem/set all those values to 0
I don't think this one is doing too much tho because I'm not using the Wmodem app, regardless, might be a good idea.
2.hklm/Comm/Internetsharing/change the extension rilphone.dll to be rilphone1.dlll (note the 3 l's)
Apparently this is the extension that tracks tethering so if you rename it, it doesn't work anymore.

So in summary thats what I did and I didn't get any extra data charges. As you can tell, I got all that info from some pretty broad sources, by no means is it hard proof. Pretty sure it works but the only real way to find out is to use it and see if there are any extra charges. Since I don't really need to use it, I haven't bitten the bullet and tried it for anything more than checking email and light browsing. I think the main thing is the amount of data (even tho its unlimited) that you could possibly chew through when tethered might be an indicator to bell.

If you find anything more definitive in your searches let me know. It would be awesome to know for sure for sure. Good luck! pretty messy post I know....