(moved posts) Is it ok to put out wireless tether info?

[cougar214]

It's all the caffeine.....honest.

 

[Bugly]

might have been bongwater.. oh, yeah, you don't do that anymore....n/m

 

[Raryn]

Both wireless and wired tether do not work on my phone with 596, rooted. Looks like article in OP is true

Do you have the TBH patch installed?

 

[Droid Commando]

Do you have the TBH patch installed?

No - what's that?

edit: Looked into it - too risky, and I don't tether enough to warrant the use of it

 

[Raryn]

No - what's that?

edit: Looked into it - too risky, and I don't tether enough to warrant the use of it

Its not especially risky. You just flash a .zip file that replaces 4 values on your phone. Pretty hard to mess it up actually.

I think TBH themselves took it off their site, but I can point you towards it if you want.

 

[Droid Commando]

Its not especially risky. You just flash a .zip file that replaces 4 values on your phone. Pretty hard to mess it up actually.

I think TBH themselves took it off their site, but I can point you towards it if you want.

Not risky in respects to damaging my phone but risky in respects to Verizon and them knocking down my door. The fact that TBH took it down makes me think VZ is really cracking down

 

[colchiro]

I probably should tether. VZ will check my usage of 400 mb for the month and think I'm up to no good.

 

[VoidedSaint]

I probably should tether. VZ will check my usage of 400 mb for the month and think I'm up to no good.

haha, well they may call you and say hey do you want to be on a cheaper plan?

i would say no cause you never know when your going to be using alot of data usage lol

 

[SimsDelt]

I just don't recommend tethering anyone... its just not worth the potential down side involved with breaking your TOS.

 

[VoidedSaint]

^+1

 

[novemberwhiskey]

Wow, i love the groupthink going on here. One day, everyone loves tethering. The next day, everyone is against it.

 

[VoidedSaint]

no we are against tethering
nearly everyone who has been here for a while, is against tethering

 

[SimsDelt]

Its easy to think that way when people realize that illegal tethering is what ia causing manufactures to lock down their bootloaders. If we (rooted phones) didn't tether they wouldn't care about root or locking the bootloaders.

 

[Raryn]

I'm pro-tethering until I see evidence of an actual crackdown.

Rants from P3Droid and the fact that they are trying to make it harder are not a crackdown. Messages from the carrier telling us to stop or we get charged are a crackdown, and aside from one isolated case (also sourced to P3Droid) that has not happened on Verizon yet.

 

[Steven58]

heya guys.... this is old news, even though the article is from today. What I'm going to do is merge this to the main discussion in the suggestions and feedback section. If anyone disagrees, please feel free to pm me.

Thanks!

Steven

 

[Roze]

heya guys.... this is old news, even though the article is from today. What I'm going to do is merge this to the main discussion in the suggestions and feedback section. If anyone disagrees, please feel free to pm me.

Thanks!

Steven

haha, that's what happened! Here I thought that this thread has been revived from its comatose stage

 

[trophynuts]

Verizon Enables New Wireless Tether Block, Asks That You Purchase a Plan - Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog


.....i know there have already been many convos on this....but since this is a new piece of info i thought i would post it....especially since a lot of people will be hitting up some GB this week and then wonder why wireless tether doesn't work

for the record personally i've never used it, i could care less if someone else does and i'm definitely not signing up for email notifications on this thread.


have at it i know there will be lots of bickering.

 

[GandalfTehGray]

Still running on gb w/ patch and experimental wifi tether

 

[JrzDroid]

If you want to tether, pay the $20 a month
If you don't, don't complain when verizon terminates your service
and charges you the $300+ ETF

this has been beaten to death. Stop Illegally tethering

 

[VoidedSaint]

yeah it has been beaten to death, the right thing would be to pay for the tethering service, but regardless it was good news to post, because now people can be aware of the situation

 

[Raryn]

It still works, just not as easily as it did in FroYo. (Patch+experimental app works fine)

As I said in the last thread, I'm pro-tethering until I see evidence of an actual crackdown. There has been a grand-total of one (1) person who said that he's gotten any sort of trouble from Verizon, and we heard that secondhand from a source that was so-so on the topic to begin with.

 

[cougar214]

Can't we all just get along?.......

 

[JamesPA]

Does anyone know if wired tethering would still work. Like through tether dot com.

 

[trophynuts]

It still works, just not as easily as it did in FroYo. (Patch+experimental app works fine)

As I said in the last thread, I'm pro-tethering until I see evidence of an actual crackdown. There has been a grand-total of one (1) person who said that he's gotten any sort of trouble from Verizon, and we heard that secondhand from a source that was so-so on the topic to begin with.

lol like i said i could careless one way or the other. I just wanted to post the link...


but uhhh...yeah isn't the link pretty good evidence of an actual crackdown? lol

 

[trophynuts]

If you want to tether, pay the $20 a month
If you don't, don't complain when verizon terminates your service
and charges you the $300+ ETF

this has been beaten to death. Stop Illegally tethering

I agree it has been beaten to death three times over. ...but like VS said it is new news and probably needs a lil forum time for all of the new people that haven't been down this beaten path yet.