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Expensive =\So my service with the iPhone would go over 110 bucks a month if I wanted to use it on my laptop. I'll pass.
I guess it is a nice alternative though to paying a separate 60 bucks a month for aircard service. | |
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NOCMan
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2008-Nov-11 3:14 pm
Re: Expensive =\*jaw hits floor*
They're already scalping you on the data plan and now that. I'll pass too. | |
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Isn't Sprint everything plan give you unlimited text and data? Then just get a PDA and you tether all you want.
I have the old SERO ($30/month) and I can tether all I want. | |
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spamd
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2008-Nov-11 3:35 pm
Re: Expensive =\ | |
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to adfsf141
said by adfsf141 :
Isn't Sprint everything plan give you unlimited text and data? Then just get a PDA and you tether all you want.
I have the old SERO ($30/month) and I can tether all I want.
You arent suppose to and some have been given quite the hefty data bill for tethering with there phones without a Phone as Modem plan. Occasional usage seems to be OK though. | |
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Re: Expensive =\My bills still say unlimited online. Do other peoples say 5 GB? | |
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swintec
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2008-Nov-11 4:49 pm
Re: Expensive =\Mine says unlimited, but the Vision Data plan is for "casual" phone based usage, not tethering. I believe the TOS states that when we signed up. If you had phone as modem it would say 5 GBs. | |
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Re: Expensive =\I have never come close to 5 GB. You are correct about the TOS too. | |
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It is an unlimited plan.. it just has a 5GB cap on it for abuse. | |
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2008-Nov-11 6:59 pm
Re: Expensive =\Sounds like my "unlimited pay check" just has a cap on it each month to prevent me from abusing it.
If it's unlimited, then there is no cap, period, end of discussion. If they have abusers, for example: like starbucks hooking these up and allowing multiple people to use it; then they should drop those abusers, but if it's advertised as unlimited, there should be no cap AT ALL. | |
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Re: Expensive =\said by SPRINTLVR :
... but if it's advertised as unlimited, there should be no cap AT ALL. ... you think?  | |
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2008-Nov-12 1:53 pm
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Yes, like my "unlimited paycheck". If I decide to work 80 hours a week and get a bunch of overtime without the approval of my manager I will get paid for 80 hours that week. And the next week I will no longer have a job. Much like the "unlimited" data plan will allow you to download as much as you want, and if you go over 5 months you will find yourself without service the next month. | |
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I have the same 5GB cap......with my AT&T DataConnect card plan. I was unaware that any AT&T dataconnect plan was "unlimited". | |
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Re: I have the same 5GB cap...Because there aren't any... | |
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|  en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA |
to Dogfather
Lets see...
Laptop card plan... $60/month, 5GB
Typical tethered plan (laptop connect plan): $60/month ontop of voice service: 5GB cap
iPhone tethered plan: $30 ontop of existing $30 data plan, 5GB cap + voice
I don't see much of a difference here.
Plan Name Monthly Cost Included Data Additional data International Data Additional Features
Data Connect $60.00 5 GB 0.00048/KB 0.0195/KB View Details | |
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2008-Nov-11 3:27 pm
YikesSprint charges $15/month for this feature if you have the "Everything Plan". (everything but tethered service)
With identical caps, I would have thought that the prices would be similar with an existing voice/data plan. | |
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Re: YikesYeah, I'm doing it on my Sprint Treo for the normal $15/month data charge. And Sprint's EVDO coverage is about 5x more than ATT. | |
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2008-Nov-11 4:05 pm
Re: YikesOr you can get software to run on your Windows Mobile phone and tether it for nothing.
I tether my Spint Samsung ACE and don't pay anything extra. | |
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Re: YikesCan do that on Treo too for the normal data charge, not an extra tethering charge. | |
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| | |  PolarBear03The bear formerly known as aaron8301
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WinMo 6 comes with ICS, just like XP. No additional software necessary, and AFAIK no way for your provider to tell the difference if you're tethered or not. | |
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Anon
2008-Nov-11 7:01 pm
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Why would I want to drop my iPhone and buy a new phone just to run WinMob? I could just jailbreak my iphone and bounce off a SSH tunnel, for free. I smell a troll. | |
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Re: YikesNewsflash -- someone who disagrees with you isn't automatically a troll.  | |
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| | | |  NOVA_GuyObamaCare Kills Americans
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If you're using a jailbroken iPhone I would think it might be easier to use PdaNet and just set up an ad-hoc wireless connection for your tethering.
The only disadvantage of this is battery life. Using 3G and WiFi at the same time just kills your battery, so you'd better be plugged in and charging while you're doing it. | |
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neverI will never get cell phone wireless internet it cost too much for what you get and there is a 5GB cap on the service. Its crazy you pay the bill they tell you how much you can use it FU**k them. | |
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Re: neversaid by jchambers28:I will never get cell phone wireless internet it cost too much for what you get and there is a 5GB cap on the service. Its crazy you pay the bill they tell you how much you can use it FU**k them. yeah, fu*k my car too..i pay for gas, then my car only goes 300 miles before i have to pay again.. | |
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2008-Nov-11 7:36 pm
Re: neverVERY poor analogy unless EVERYONE used the same gas tank. | |
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said by kevinzak76:said by jchambers28:I will never get cell phone wireless internet it cost too much for what you get and there is a 5GB cap on the service. Its crazy you pay the bill they tell you how much you can use it FU**k them. yeah, fu*k my car too..i pay for gas, then my car only goes 300 miles before i have to pay again.. Such an irrelevant analogy, it doesn't have any sort of common ground for argument. Dismissed! | |
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said by jchambers28:I will never get cell phone wireless internet it cost too much for what you get and there is a 5GB cap on the service. Its crazy you pay the bill they tell you how much you can use it FU**k them. This is different than a limited amount of anytime minutes per month how? | |
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Sprint BusinessCaps don't apply to business account for Sprint. We use EVDO cards for failovers for T-1s, and most of the techs at our company tether with their phones, and we don't incur any extra charges using probably 100+GB total on all 18 lines. (3 data cards, 15 phones) | |
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Yay for T-moUnlimited teathering is included with the $20 unlimited data plan I have for my blackberry. Sure, it's only EDGE, but I don't live anywhere near one of AT&T's tiny 3G offerings anyway. | |
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Errr, I just switched to TMO from AT&T because I've been fed up with the slowdowns the hordes of iTards caused every day (Downtown Manhattan) and the fact that MF greedy AT&T simply ignores (sometimes even denies) it but this is the funniest clueless comment I ever heard from a TMO user...  TMO's 3G is literally NONEXISTENT outside of few selected cities and EVEN WHERE IT WORKS IT USES A NEW FREQUENCY SO YOU CANNOT USE IT UNLESS YOU GET A NEW PHONE. The only worthy phone would be the G1 - but only after Google/Android fixed the missing A2DP and video recording functions. OTOH AT&T's now overloaded PoS-quality (slow as hell) 3G is available everywhere and uses regular UMTS frequencies so my trusty TyTn was working fine everywhere, just like any better worldphone (i.e. all HTC ones.) | |
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moonpuppy (banned)
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2008-Nov-11 3:57 pm
So funny...People think unlimited tethering on a cell phone will be cheap. Come on people, there isn't enough bandwidth to do this. | |
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Way To GoWell, there's a $110/mo. plus the cost of the phone that neither Apple nor AT&T will ever see of my money. But I feel fairly good about the decision since bandwidth is so scarce, I mean, I wouldn't want to deplete such a precious finite resource.
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Jailbreak that iPhone and install PDAnetAnd that's when you Jailbreak the iPhone, install the PDAnet application and star using the iPhone as an HSDPA modem without anyone's blessing and without getting raped an extra 30$ a month.
All the pple i know with an iPhone have already done this and it works perfectly.
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Re: Jailbreak that iPhone and install PDAnetSure you could use PDA net. But don't come here crying when they find out and charge you up the kalamazoo when they find out yer tethering when you aint suppose to be. This is why I pay the $60 for my ATT HSPDA card. I'm chicken | |
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2008-Nov-11 5:39 pm
Hahahahahaha ScamThat is hilarious, screw ATT and the iPhone. $60 a month for capped 3G lol. I have had a windows mobile phone for a year before the iPhone came out with a 3G data plan which I can use on my laptop as well with a simple little application. Apple will never let that happen... | |
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jsz0
Premium Member
2008-Nov-12 12:30 am
Re: Hahahahahaha ScamYou're breaking your Terms of Service most likely. You can do that with the iPhone too if you wish. | |
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2008-Nov-12 8:58 pm
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There is ONE major problem with that. I would have to use Winblows Mobile. That is a show stopper for me. | |
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2008-Nov-11 5:46 pm
Figuresthey'd start the price high to squeeze what they can before the bottom falls out of consumer communications. No if, but when. That giant dropping sound will be iPhone (and others) plans hitting the skids as people look for pay phones  that aren't there. Hate to say I told ya s... -- | |
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beaups
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2008-Nov-11 7:50 pm
Re: Figures"I told you so" is usually more effective after "it" happens...it hasn't happened yet and there are ZERO signs it ever will, so you may just want to hold off on that one for a bit. | |
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And VZW is the bad company???Everyone says VZW is out to screw the consumer. They have $15 tethering and the same 5GB cap. Normally a PDA(XV6800) has no cap. Flash the rom and you can tether for free and unlimited. | |
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2008-Nov-11 8:51 pm
Cancling my cousins laptop cardYea they told him there was never going to be a Teathering for iphone so he got the iphone and a laptop air card.. and Most likely they will cancel the aircard and waive the fee because of that told to him.. If they don't then what the hell he'll keep it, but i'm going to try to cancel it with waiving the fee. | |
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So.......So data coming from a computer that is tethered to a phone is different than data coming simply from a phone how? | |
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WiFi tether?Does it work with wifi too?
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jsz0
Premium Member
2008-Nov-12 12:48 am
This is more for business, not personal use.These plans aren't really targeted towards individuals who just want to do casual web browsing. They're targeted towards business where $60/month for increased productivity and availability would be considered a no-brainer.
That being said, I always thought tethering was almost always a bad idea. You're burning up your cell phone battery to do it. Using your laptop battery to drive the radio makes more sense since its much higher capacity. The particular Sprint AirCard I have includes its own battery. | |
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just tether your PDA phone for freethis is crazy.
all you need is a windows mobile phone and you can tether all you want with the regular data plan. they say you need the tethering plan but they have no way to tell...i have been tethering my tilt and 8525 befor that for 4 years now without a tethering plan.
and if your windows mobile phone doesnt come with a tethering plan built in just go to www.wmwifirouter.com for a $30(one time cost) program that turns you phone into a 802.11g router. | |
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beaups
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2008-Nov-12 1:05 pm
Re: just tether your PDA phone for freeonly problem is that IS against your TOS...so if they disconnect you tomorrow you have no recourse. | |
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