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Root Free wifi tether? Oh yes.. here's how

That's really good. Better than DSL around here!

I may test this tonight at a coffee shop (starbucks, but not their wifi) and see what I get on 3g through wifi tethering.
 
Roadblock said:
So, what are the chances of Sprint killing this? When I was on the phone arguing with Retention about the $10 dollar "EVO tax" the subject of me being outright lied to by a Sprint Rep who told me that for the $10 dollars, we got wired tethering, came up.

I made a comment like owell, screw it, wired tethering works with Easy Tether and Tethering via wifi has been achieved via Super User access so I wasn't paying $29.99 a month for something I was lied to about.

The Rep snapped back at me that all methods to buy pass paying for the wireless and wired tethering would be short lived, the network admins were working on closing the loop holes.

I mentioned I was within my 30 days to return the phone and they might be loosing a 10 plus year customer and hung up.

SO that said. Think them closing the loops true and possible?

I think Sprint sees the EVO as there new big profits item. They want to tax and force everyone to pay for every single thing they can.

I'm 10+ year sprint customer, my wifes an 8+ Verizon customer and the HTC Incredible is looking better on a family plan every day I have to stew about it.
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No.

Look up how the linux tcp stack operates. It's packets all the way down. A packet from your phone looks exactly like a packet from your computer. Only difference is context.

Sprint reps couldn't tell you the difference between ip packet from a ketchup packet.
 
I know This post is for the evo but thought someone might know something about getting wireless tether to work on a rooted Motorola Droid with the 2.2 (froyo) update. Any info would be appreciated. Can't get barnacle or wireless tether to work. Looked for the android.tether folder mentioned in this postand for the file fw_bcm4329.bin and couldn't find them. Not sure if all this is "evo" specific. I'm fairly new so excuse my ignorance. Also will those adb commands work for the Droid as well as the evo? You can email me at scottsdca on gmail.com.
Thanks.
 
Not sure if this has been answered already or not but FYI guys, the obvious answer to the reason wired vs wireless tethering should cost more is simple: You can do more than one connection at once with wireless tethering vs wired where you can only do one device. (depends on the app of course but it's POSSIBLE to host more than one device)

To me the answer is simple: You can do wireless tethering if you only service one device and they shouldn't even notice a difference in your usage. How can they possibly know if you're doing wired or wireless tethering from your site hits? They can't...it's that simple.

It's when you have 10 - 20 individual system requests and huge throughput on your phone within a short period of time, well, that might get their attention. But really guys...android is linux base afterall... the founding principles of linux is open source and shared tools. They have to expect people to easily hack these systems and the simple answer to that is that if they don't like it, they shouldn't support the OS. Stick it to the man, that's the founding principles of linux. So stick it to them anyway you can. Exploit it and try to keep it low key when you do. Don't go overboard and try to host a lan party on your wireless tether on the 4G networks. You'll just ruin it for everyone.
 
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