Back toward the end of September, or whenever the OTA came out, I was using a Droid X, rooted Froyo, and was using Barnacles to tether with. Loved it! Worked flawlessly everytime, and thats rare in this day and age. For the whole month of September I was taking my laptop to work, tethering WiFi from my phone, and surfing the web....without. one. single. problem... :::::::::::: FAST FORWARDING :::::::::::: Now I have a brand new unrooted DX2, but this time around instead of rooting I was going to do the Verizon Mobile Hotspot subscription. Same workplace, same office, and same laptop. My experience so far is HORRIBLE and IRRITATING!! Its so bad its to the point that Im going to attempt to root my DX2. What I dont understand is why is there such a noticeable difference? I have basically the same phone. What is it about root that makes tethering better, faster, and more reliable? I mean in all honesty If I had 30 minutes to surf the web, I would only ACTUALLY get to surf about 8-10 minutes with this DX2. To where-as with my rooted DX I could surf ALL 30 minutes without 1 single bump in the road. As far as service and signal there the same. I have FULL serivce and 5 bars on my wireless icon on my laptop. Ive tried everything from putting my phone in different spots, hoping elevation or something would give me better 3G or something, but none of it seems to help. Anybody got any insight on this?
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Can ANYONE Explain Why This Is?
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arparaspolo
Android Enthusiast
Maybe your data usage is high and Verizon is slowing you down. To where as using the rooted method they couldn't do that. I have no idea. Just throwing ideas out of my butt. I really don't know what I am talking about haha.
its a good stab at it, but no I don't think this is my issue. It happened immediately after I got my new DX2, because I got it before going in to work. So its slow even on new/fresh cycles. Another thing I failed to mention that doesn't make any sense is that I can browse off my phone like 3x's faster than if I tether .... How is that if its suppose to be the same connection powering both 
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coolpoete
Android Enthusiast
arparaspolo might be right in that thinking about the situation the only real difference now is that you are going through VZW instead of barnacle. It would not be unusual for them to throttle their data use. One thing you could try is to update your PRL (*228, option 2) to see if you can get your phone to pick up a tower nearer to you but somehow I don't think it may help much. Other than that you have nothing to lose in rooting and trying barnacle now to see if there could be something else going on.
bolski
Android Enthusiast
As others have stated, I think it's Verizon throttling your throughput. Since you are using their service, they can limit what your upload/download speeds are.