has anyone run an office off of just their phone's tether?

[holden j caufield]

There is a new remote location we have that doesn't use a lot of bandwidth. Has anyone run tether 24/7/365 for a long period of time and which carrier is cool with it.

 

[bonkers325]

our phone lines and internet went down because the co-lo fucked up and unplugged something... took them a week to even put in a ticket to get the ball rolling.

i used my tmobile gnexus to tether for internet and email. i was able to do it for a 5 days, then they locked me out of tethering for general internet access (but I could still use gmail via the web) so it wasn't too terrible. i didn't do insane stuff like stream music or stuff via my browser, but i did surf the web for work-related things. i used about 600mb via phone tether from my browser before they locked me out.

 

[Bateluer]

There is a new remote location we have that doesn't use a lot of bandwidth. Has anyone run tether 24/7/365 for a long period of time and which carrier is cool with it.

Get a cellular hotspot device on a business contract.

 

[Mushkins]

Get a cellular hotspot device on a business contract.

This. Yes, it's more expensive. Having an entire office that can't work is *more* expensive. Though i'm not sure why you wouldn't just get them a legitimate wired internet connection.

 

[lagokc]

A couple years ago when I moved to a different city I tethered my LG Ally through Verizon for a few months until I got reliable cable internet (Comcast is the only carrier in my area and their customer service wasn't the best... they've improved a little). I had unlimited data and never ran into problems with it other than torrents were blocked. I think Verizon has changed its policies about tethering since then though.

 

[jaqie]

Not directly an answer but I have a blackberry curve 9350 which has mobile hotspot capability, and a plan with cricket allowing 2.5gb fullspeed and then unlimited at ISDN speed (10KB/s when lucky) and I have had to use it several months in a row for two heavy computer users because of a crazy roommate which ran comcast bill for 6 months till they cut it off and then got dsl and blocked us off from using it so we had no other internet options...

Cricket never complained but my god it was a nightmare to use when throttled.

We are on it again because crazy roommate moved out and took the dsl modem with her, correcting that today but until then back on the blackberry hotspot.

 

[holden j caufield]

which carrier has a hot spot with not horrible latency. I understand they're going to be bad latency but which is less worse? Verizon? Because tmobile band? isn't that great inside the building.

 

[jaqie]

my latency is between 90-120 till I max the connection then it goes up to ~300-500.

I have something pinging my own shared hosting every 5 seconds on my desktop as a gadget and it shows this pretty consistently (from oregon to texas)

 

[Red Storm]

In my experience Verizon LTE is the best.

 

[JAG87]

Get a Verizon LTE modem/router with an appropriate plan.

 

[A5]

If the city has Verizon LTE, use that. If there isn't any LTE, AT&T's HSPA is probably faster than Verizon's 3G.

 

[s44]

Verizon LTE is only useful if you have an unlimited data line...

Latency is good except in overload situations like midtown Manhattan.

 

[Anonemous]

I would check sensorly.com for cell signal strengths at location then pick the one with the strongest signal or whoever had 4G/HSPA+ there.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

one time i got rid of my att dsl because xfinity was faster. and six months later i decided i hated comcast so i wanted to just get dsl again. so i called up att and they said dsl was no longer available in my area, and that i would have to get uverse which would mean $150 in new equipment. so i just tethered to my razr and used verizon lte. i axerayped vzn, in two weeks i used about 40 gigs. they never said anything about it. i cant beleive they wouldnt if someone did that every month though, thats hundred of dollars worth of use, at their rip off rates. if i didnt have unlimited it wouldnt be practical, it would be way more expensive than wired internet. my phone get teally hot at times too, like when watching videos.

im able to get great 4g in places and at ranges i could never get 3g at. 4g is much better and not just because its faster.

 

[lopri]

Impossible.. My main system has a wireless adapter dedicated for VMs and last month its traffic was over 150 GB+. I think that would be qualify for "abuse" category even under unlimited data plans. lol.

Edit: Well, how much traffic are you using? You should be able to check it on the systems or the router.