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Wifi Tether is out for Droid

yeah but does rooting the droid still disable the GPS??
thats like the MAIN feature I use on my droid. Like I can't live without it.
 
meekrab said:
What does the agreement say?

I can say that I've tethered my phone as my primary internet connection since the summer of 2008. I typically use at least 15 gigs/month.
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What Are Verizon Wireless' Rights to Limit or End Service or End this Agreement?

We can, without notice, limit, suspend or end your Service or any agreement with you for any good cause, including, but not limited to: (i) if you: (a) breach this agreement; (b) pay late more than once in any 12 months; (c) incur charges larger than a required deposit or billing limit, or materially in excess of your monthly access charges (even if we haven't yet billed the charges); (d) provide credit information we can't verify; (e) are unable to pay us or go bankrupt; (f) resell your Service; (g) use your Service for any illegal purpose, including use that violates trade and economic sanctions and prohibitions promulgated by any U.S. governmental agency; (h) install, deploy or use any regeneration equipment or similar mechanism (for example, a repeater) to originate, amplify, enhance, retransmit or regenerate an RF signal without our permission; (i) steal from or lie to us; or (ii) if you, any user of your device or any account manager on your account: (a) threaten, harass, or use vulgar and/or inappropriate language toward our representatives; (b) interfere with our operations; (c) "spam," or engage in other abusive messaging or calling; (d) modify your device from its manufacturer's specifications; or (e) use your Service in a way that negatively affects our network or other customers. We can also temporarily limit your Service for any operational or governmental reason.

This is all it says. It doesn't say no tethering. But it does say don't steal from us. statement (i)

Amaroth said:
yeah but does rooting the droid still disable the GPS??
thats like the MAIN feature I use on my droid. Like I can't live without it.
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No that is if you flash certain Roms and alot of those are fixed now.
 
As far as PDA tethering not being able to log into email,I do it all the time and log into different web sites to include military sites. I have never tried to order anything yet but I yet to be denied access to any sites I go visit. The AKO site is very secure with many hurdles to jump but I do get in as though I was on a WIFI. MOST times I forget I am tethered. Yes I am in a strong 3G area.
 
ccphilly1984 said:
pssst... the linux tethering app is 100% free... I'm loving ubuntu :D

Linux + GNU = Humans Enabled: How to Tether your Verizon Droid (as an Internet modem) to Ubuntu GNU/Linux 9.10
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Thanks for the link...
I'm running ubuntu and trying to find a way to do it with the wifi tether but ubuntu doesn't like the adhoc network on the droid, so I'm dual booting Win7 I was using a proxy app but just for web browsing.


PS. That quote was answering another persons question about PDAnet. I Don't use PDAnet.
 
Can you put wpa2 encryption on the connection? If not it's pretty damn useless, for me anyway. The only time I've tethered my laptop to my phone was at DefCon and Shmoocon. There's no way in hell I'm using a wifi connection within a mile of either of those cons. With both I used a usb connection to my ATT Tilt.
 
dougwilson2000 said:
As far as PDA tethering not being able to log into email,I do it all the time and log into different web sites to include military sites. I have never tried to order anything yet but I yet to be denied access to any sites I go visit. The AKO site is very secure with many hurdles to jump but I do get in as though I was on a WIFI. MOST times I forget I am tethered. Yes I am in a strong 3G area.
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How long have you been using PDAnet? PDAnet is unrestricted for the first thirty days. After that, you can't use https without paying.

I don't know how well this speaks to the security of military sites (joking of course) but I can't even login to gmail without https. Don't get me wrong, PDAnet is a great program, but half the sites I use on a regular basis (mostly academic) require https.

barry99705 said:
Can you put wpa2 encryption on the connection? If not it's pretty damn useless, for me anyway. The only time I've tethered my laptop to my phone was at DefCon and Shmoocon. There's no way in hell I'm using a wifi connection within a mile of either of those cons. With both I used a usb connection to my ATT Tilt.
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No wpa2 as of yet, only wep-128 unfortunately. Since I don't live in crazy nerd hackerville like you apparently do I'm not that worried. The wifi tether app does provide access control based on mac address, but I'm sure you know some way around that too :D

Though I haven't tried it, you can also connect with the tether app through bluetooth. I use wifi tether for the wifi range, but if you're worried about security, maybe the bluetooth option is the way to go?
 
meekrab said:
No wpa2 as of yet, only wep-128 unfortunately. Since I don't live in crazy nerd hackerville like you apparently do I'm not that worried. The wifi tether app does provide access control based on mac address, but I'm sure you know some way around that too :D
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Any WEP can be cracked in less than a minute, mac addresses can also be spoofed. I think I'll stick to usb. :D
 
mxillerlitxe said:
Thanks for the link...
I'm running ubuntu and trying to find a way to do it with the wifi tether but ubuntu doesn't like the adhoc network on the droid, so I'm dual booting Win7 I was using a proxy app but just for web browsing.


PS. That quote was answering another persons question about PDAnet. I Don't use PDAnet.
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tried and tested and works using ubuntu netbook remix... i dual boot that with windows 7 ultimate on my netbook. rep points would be apreciated... clicking on that scale in the lower corner of my post and a thank you works good.

i just started using ubuntu a few days after xmas once i found out that the basic windows 7 doesn't even let you change your background without upgrading for mad money, and every day i find less reasons to reboot to windows... today i found some blu-ray burning app for my desktop. next is to find out if i can get my zune to communicate with ubuntu
 
ccphilly1984 said:
tried and tested and works using ubuntu netbook remix... i dual boot that with windows 7 ultimate on my netbook. rep points would be apreciated... clicking on that scale in the lower corner of my post and a thank you works good.

i just started using ubuntu a few days after xmas once i found out that the basic windows 7 doesn't even let you change your background without upgrading for mad money, and every day i find less reasons to reboot to windows... today i found some blu-ray burning app for my desktop. next is to find out if i can get my zune to communicate with ubuntu
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Microsoft made sure that the Zune would only talk to the Zune software. Kinda the same way Apple made the iPod only talk to iTunes. The only difference is there are more iPod users then Zune users, so you have more people working on hacking iPod support for linux.
 
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