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Is the tethering plan for 14.95 worth it?

Nah it's not worth it not much. It's just like using the 5 gigs of data you have for your monthly bill sucks because recently T-mobile just lowered down their data from 10 to 5 gigs!! Get Pdanet and teether all you want without them knowing about it!
 
No charge for tethering. Same limitations as your data plan (at 5GB your data is throttled). Might as well set phone as a Hotspot rather then tethering. No need to use PDANet or anything else.

Personally I use about 200MB/month. Frankly, I don't see how people use close to 5GB unless they are acting as a Hotspot
 
tcope said:
No charge for tethering. Same limitations as your data plan (at 5GB your data is throttled). Might as well set phone as a Hotspot rather then tethering. No need to use PDANet or anything else.

Personally I use about 200MB/month. Frankly, I don't see how people use close to 5GB unless they are acting as a Hotspot
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I use about 2-3GB of data monthly. That's because I'm always on the web searching random things, using the internet radio rarely, and on youtube. I also have 3 email accounts. 1 was my first, but then I thought that got hacked, so I made another one, only to find out it was me and I had chose-to-stay-logged-on on another computer and that's what that was, but I'd already started using the second email, and the third is a work email, something more professional sounding. I get millions of emails a day, since I had one email for about 4 years, so everything is linked to that email.

And this is not including wifi hotspotting. LoL!! So it just depends on what you do with your phone. I get bored easily, so searching things online helps with that. It links me to other pages and I easily see that "Skins for HTC G2" can take me to "Is it true magnets run out of magnetism" Which BTW is true. LoL!!

My mom, when she had web for a month, all she did was check her email and browse the internet for TV guide on yahoo and small stuff. She rarely uses the the desktop computer. So, the 200MB plan was perfect for her. So there's an example on, it's just what you do with your phone.

http://www.t-mobile.com/Tools/MBCalculator.aspx# This link may help you choose which plan benefits you.
 
I don't like the idea of the tethering plan. From what I read, it's not that it adds 5GB for you to use, it simply "authorizes" you to use your existing 5GB (from your data plan) with hotspot. You will get throttled still after 5GB.

I just use the root wifi tether app. I haven't had any problems.
 
hipster7929 said:
What is this about being charged for tethering? I got it in the update and have not noticed a charge?
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Tethering is when you connect a USB from your phone to your computer and use your computer.

WiFI hotspot is when you give off Wireless signals, per say, to give a wireless device internet.

You have to pay $15 extra to use tethering. Wifi hotspot is free. -_-

If you have a desktop, you can easily buy a wifi adapter to give your desktop Wireless signals, thus saving you from paying $15 a month. Either that or risk bricking your phone and rooting it. LoL!!
 
First, there have been some Data plan changes with some new T-Mobile plans. There is no total monthy limit on any of the plans and no charge for going over your plan. For example with the $10.00 / 200M plan, you can go over the 200M limit at no charge, but your connection will slow to the Edge netword speed after 200M. Going to a 2G or 5G plan gives you 3G or 4G speed up to your new plan limit before it slows down. I use the 200M plan because I am on Edge 80% of time anyway, so the slowdown after 200M doesn't matter.

Wifi tethering:
If T-Mobile detects that you are using your phone as a Wifi hotspot, they will email you saying you have to add the 14.95 monthly fee for tethering. There are many theories on how they detect tethering but it is obvious if you are surfing with Internet Explorer, they can tell you aren't surfing from your phone. (the browser and operating system can be logged by the proxy servers t-mobile runs on their data service)

It seems they cannot detect tethering if you only use it for Terminal Services (remote desktop). I have a workstation at home that I can access with Remote Desktop, so when Tethering with my Nexus S, I always go directly to my workstation at home with remote desktop. If you are not trying to display movies or other dynamic content, the bandwidth used is much less with Remote Desktop than if you were surfing directly from your tethered computer, and T-Mobile cannot tell if the Remote Desktop app is on your phone or on your tethered computer.

This solution is good for email and accessing other non-animated apps and web sites. Not usable for anything that moves or tries to display a lot of big images.
 
i have never gotten the said email for the hotspotting. then again im still on the unlimited (with throtling) plan and was grandfathered in:)
 
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