AT&T tells customers using unauthorized tethering methods to pay up or stop...

[StrangerGuy]

AT&T is a few thousand miles away from my country and amazingly it can still screw me up by dropping my WoW packets in America so I get massive unplayable lag during my nighttime. Thanks fvckers.

 

[Ichinisan]

Does the tethered PC have it's own IP on AT&T's network? I could test, but I hope it doesn't result in me losing the $30 unlimited data plan I'm grandfathered-in to.

I rooted my Droid X for free tethering on my unlimited plan, but I also don't abuse it and hardly ever exceed 2 GB/mo with or without tethering.

And no on the IP, its NATed through the phone acting as a router, all they can do is claim you are doing it due to data usage.

Of course, any network / device could be different. Apple is known for being "different."

Example: What other smartphone requires you to install a media software (iTunes) to manage updates, applications, and support tethering?

Tested anyway.

-Disabled WiFi on my i4
-Disabled LAN on my PC
-Visited www.whatismyip.com from my phone.
-Tethered.
-Visited www.whatismyip.com from the PC.

Same IP from both, so it looks like the iOS tethering does NAT too.

 

[frostedflakes]

right, grass is not greener on this side. 3G actual speed is often same as of 56k modem.

O RLY?

I'll admit mine are probably above average, but with a good signal you should be able to pull at least 700kbps pretty easily.

 

[zanejohnson]

O RLY?

I'll admit mine are probably above average, but with a good signal you should be able to pull at least 700kbps pretty easily.

seriously? that's it?

that's way worse than most broadband providers are capable of.

 

[frostedflakes]

True. 🙂

Not terrible for 3G, though, and certainly not "56k modem" speeds.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

I don't know why people are so angry about this. If AT&T says in their ToS that you can't tether for free, then if for whatever reason you can (or rather, could) tether for free without them noticing or doing anything about it, it is a privilege, not a right. It's definitely not something to get bitchy and whiny over when AT&T take it away.

 

[Turin39789]

I don't know why people are so angry about this. If AT&T says in their ToS that you can't tether for free, then if for whatever reason you can (or rather, could) tether for free without them noticing or doing anything about it, it is a privilege, not a right. It's definitely not something to get bitchy and whiny over when AT&T take it away.

meh, you can do it with competitors, so you leave ATT. I tether on sprint a few times a year when I am traveling or just out. It's great at an airport or when I go out to a cafe, but I'll be damned if I'm going to pay $20 a month to casual tether.

 

[Ichinisan]

O RLY?

I'll admit mine are probably above average, but with a good signal you should be able to pull at least 700kbps pretty easily.

Gotcha beat:

AT&T 3G
Newnan, GA 30263

 

[frostedflakes]

Yeah HSDPA has EVDO beat in speeds. 🙂