Bell Touch & Tethering

[Sunfox]

I've done searches on Bell or Telus solutions, but I can only find discussion on US carriers, which seem to operate a bit differently.

I have a Bell Touch and an unlimited on-phone data plan, and am trying to see if there's a way to tether it to my laptop, without it being detected as tethering.

The Bell WM6 ROM does NOT come with ICS installed... and the only tethering app is "WModem" which, if you try to "start" it, tells you to disconnect the phone's data connection first.

Any solutions?

[earthdan]

check out pdanet, its a useful program even if you have a tethering option (but works well if you don't)

[loginatnine]

Well I've been able to tether on telus with bluetooth. Just link your device with bluetooth, install the dial-up networking service. Run it and use "#777" as the number to dial, no login/password. It should connect and you'll be good to go!

[ludester]

Originally Posted by jackojack

Well I've been able to tether on telus with bluetooth. Just link your device with bluetooth, install the dial-up networking service. Run it and use "#777" as the number to dial, no login/password. It should connect and you'll be good to go!

will bell/telus know your tethering thoe?

[psweitzer]

AFAIK they could only really *accuse* you of tethering based on the size of downloads and type of traffic...
Good luck telling anyone at Bell that that 4GB torrent you downloaded was for use on your phone!

On the other hand they could get particularly sneaky... It wouldn't be hard to sniff the TCP/IP traffic coming from your phone and recognize that your useragent ( Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080416 Fedora/2.0.0.14-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.14) doesn't exactly belong to Windows Mobile...

Here is the text of an email I received about a month after signing up for Unlimited Browser :

If you have subscribed to the Unlimited Mobile Browser feature, you can access the Internet on your mobile phone. Please note that it does not include use of your device as a modem to connect to the Internet from your computer. If you plan on using your device as a wireless modem, we suggest that you subscribe to one of our data plans to avoid additional data connectivity charges.

Now that doesn't really mean anything more than *IF* we catch you we *WILL* bill you.... Still not something I am going to bother with...

[loginatnine]

Originally Posted by ludester

will bell/telus know your tethering thoe?

As weitzer said, they can know but I haven't been charged yet...But I haven't used a lot, only like 15mb...couple of webpages

[mfpreach]

Originally Posted by jackojack

As weitzer said, they can know but I haven't been charged yet...But I haven't used a lot, only like 15mb...couple of webpages

Have you been charged yet? I want to tether on bell but don't want a 4k phone till also.

[Rabid_Gypsy]

Just a FYI, your contract with Bell is very specific about tethering, my friend has a Bell Touch and read through his contract and it says no tethering. Telus on the other hand uses it as a selling feature.

[timpower42]

I got dinged and didn't even know it was a difference... any nobody at their stupid call centres can help me even though they know its wrong... I used the tethering for 3 days and accumulated enough data transfers to have a 800 dollar phone bill.... FOR 3 DAYS.

[Duuuuude]

Originally Posted by timpower42

I got dinged and didn't even know it was a difference... any nobody at their stupid call centres can help me even though they know its wrong... I used the tethering for 3 days and accumulated enough data transfers to have a 800 dollar phone bill.... FOR 3 DAYS.

I know that they warn you but that is just criminal to charge customers that much. There should be some kind of cap in place.