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Droid Tethering

I'm getting a "Fail to Connect" message and "make sure your PDA is connected" even though I'm connected. Any ideas? Thanks everyone....

I just realized I had to turn on the App on the Droid... Posting this edit from my laptop connected to my Droid.... Sweet!
 
vb4life said:
In regards to the 5 gig montly limit. Can someone give an example of what activities would use over 5 gigs when tethering? The wife and I would like to watch some hulu when we are visiting family who do not have cable. Thanks
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Web video is a good example of what can pretty easily clobber your quota. Typical DVD-or-better quality video can run as high as 1GB per hour. Not sure about Hulu, but you get about 900MB/hour from YouTube "HD" video, over 1GB/hour for Netflix (either SD or HD).
 
vb4life said:
In regards to the 5 gig montly limit. Can someone give an example of what activities would use over 5 gigs when tethering? The wife and I would like to watch some hulu when we are visiting family who do not have cable. Thanks
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Tethering and p2p can definitely eat up a lot of bandwidth.
 
vb4life said:
When flash comes to the droid..will watching Hulu on the droid itself eat up as much as if it was tethered?
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Unless hulu does something different for mobile access, I would imagine it would be comparable as long as you're watching at the same resolution. I've read on hulu that they adjust Res based on connection speed.
 
meekrab said:
Unless hulu does something different for mobile access, I would imagine it would be comparable as long as you're watching at the same resolution. I've read on hulu that they adjust Res based on connection speed.
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320p (Low-res) for slow speeds and 480p (High-res... laughs) for high speeds.
 
Wakey said:
Tethering is connecting your PDA to a computer as a modem.

It is not yet supported by Verizon and when it is it will be an extra $15 a month.

I'm hoping we have other options while VZW sorts their end out.
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Actually, it will be $30/mo for most people. For Verizon Wireless data packages the tethering capability plus the device's own data plan will always equal $59.995/mo, the price of their Mobile Broadband service.
 
Siren said:
Grrr... I know. :(

I'm on a MacBook and the options are very limited. I would really like to be able to do it via Bluetooth... but I am not sure it is possible.
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Me too. I was able to tether bluetooth with my Storm to my MAC. It was a great feature for the rare occasion that I needed to work while on the road. Guess I will be looking for WiFi hot spots now. Regardless, the Droid is waaaay better than the Storm!
 
so what do you guys use tethering for.....I mean, specifically what in your daily life makes tethering so important.

I would totally find it useful if I worked on the road and needed to get wireless internet access while on the job.

What else are good uses for tethering?

this topic seems like a very hot one so i'm just wondering if there's a large population of users that need this feature...or if most of you just want the feature just to have it?
 
HAHA yea it is....I'm an idiot. It took me a minute to figure out what happened...then I realized I had my droid Wifi on and it was pushing through the router.

So my real speeds inside my house are more like 1.1 and 420.
 
ninjamaster said:
Meekrab, thank you so much for linking the correct driver! I tried everything with no success until I found this thread!
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Glad I could help!

asilver said:
so what do you guys use tethering for.....I mean, specifically what in your daily life makes tethering so important.

I would totally find it useful if I worked on the road and needed to get wireless internet access while on the job.

What else are good uses for tethering?

this topic seems like a very hot one so i'm just wondering if there's a large population of users that need this feature...or if most of you just want the feature just to have it?
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I started tethering with my moto Q when I was still with alltel. I didn't purchase the phone for this purpose, but when I found out that it was possible I decided to use it as my primary internet connection (I'm in college so any consolidation of paid services is helpful, and I didn't want to shell out time warner cable prices for internet).

I work as a tutor and generally travel ~60 miles/day to go to student's homes, so having internet access anywhere is a huge benefit. Admittedly, if I had to pay full verizon prices I probably wouldn't have a smartphone, but I'm still on my truly unlimited alltel plan which is much more reasonable than verizon's offering (not to mention devoid of the 5 gb data limit).

It's a matter of convenience and cost for me. On a side note, the droid is really efficient in handling data, and tethering is really quick.
 
asilver said:
so what do you guys use tethering for.....I mean, specifically what in your daily life makes tethering so important.

I would totally find it useful if I worked on the road and needed to get wireless internet access while on the job.

What else are good uses for tethering?

this topic seems like a very hot one so i'm just wondering if there's a large population of users that need this feature...or if most of you just want the feature just to have it?
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I am in the Army and there is an inordinate amount of paperwork that needs to be done and not enough computers to do the work on. What makes it worst is that most of the time the paperwork is done through a web interface. So that is what I use tethering for.
 
gadgetmom88 said:
I have a Mac and 4 Windows machines in my house. Just sold my iPhone to buy the Droid on Friday (I like a phone that can make phone calls, doesn't really matter what else it can do). I'd like to tether from a Windows machine. Looked at the link for PDANet. Curious if this is something that is loaded onto the computer, the Android device, or both. Before I plunk down $29 for it, is anyone using it with success on an Android device?
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I just used the free trial and it was really slow. I have VZW broadband card and I would like to get rid of it. Anyone have luck with this and have it be fast? Not sure why it was so slow.
 
jlw007 said:
I just used the free trial and it was really slow. I have VZW broadband card and I would like to get rid of it. Anyone have luck with this and have it be fast? Not sure why it was so slow.
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I've been doing some very limited tethering using PDAnet and am getting around 600-700kb/s pretty much on a regular basis. Its not as fast as my BlackberryTour was but it is faster than my Curve when tethering. But for both Blackberys I was using the VZ Access manager software so not sure it that made a difference.

I'm personally not doing any streaming or video watching while tethering. I just use it to view these sites and forums and some online bill payments.
 
Cool good to know! I work at home so my need for tethering is very limited but I can see how that's really important for a lot of user's now.
 
Not sure if everyone knows this already but Bluetooth DUN works on a mac with pdanet (I sent a file while underground on the subway today).
 
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