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Re: Really? said by Cjaiceman:said by maartena:Give me a connection and an IP address. I will decide for myself what to run accross it. Thank you. Exactly, and I have been doing this for sometime, like teathering to my PC on my PDA, which isn't supposed to work, but WMWiFiRouter works just as it should. Skype Beta works just fine and I have been using Skype just fine for sometime. Mobile IM, streaming video from ORB and youtube, it all works fine. The problem with tethering is that there is no "official" definition. I see tethering as using the "phone as a modem" and not using ICS thus creating a loop hole in the TOS.
One of my beef with AT&T is that they killed the unlimited laptop connect plan because people were using it as a replacement for their home connection. Wait, what? One of their "A+" certified CSRs told me that they couldn't limit the customers, yet they impose limits all the time. The network engineers can't implement QOS? Where is all the money I am paying them going to? What are these people smoking, because obviously it is pretty good stuff?
Providers should not have the ability to impose exceptions on a connection. It should be all or nothing. For those who complain about the speed of 3G, its pretty damn fast. Try GPRS or EDGE and tell me that AT&T's 3G network is slow. Didn't think so. Oh well, until we can get someone in office who will actually slap these companies silly, the honest customers will continue to get reamed while the other people who have PDAs have a data plan that's for regular cell phones (15$ less). |
