Droid does

[LTb1ow]

Long story short, comcast is the suxor lately. I rarely have connection for more than 10 minutes and my tv images are all sorts of messed up.

So, finally downloaded the tether app for my droid. So much win. 8-)

[sweetbmxrider]

Call comcast with teh droid

[LTb1ow]

I did, they are sending a guy tmmr.

[sweetbmxrider]

You decided this now? Damn pals.....

[LTb1ow]

You decided this now? Damn pals.....

Huh?

[sweetbmxrider]

Hasn't your comcast been ftl for like ever?

[LTb1ow]

Yea, but it finally just stopped working this morning and since my parents are home, they got pissed and called comcast. They apparently have more weight at comcast. :lol:

[sweetbmxrider]

Your dad probably punchisized them through teh phone

[BigRocsFirebird]

Droid ftw

[BonzoHansen]

Your dad probably punchisized them through teh phone

oh, is Dad Smash Sr and Matt Smash Jr? :)

[WiMiMc]

Droid ftw

Dad ftw

[WildBillyT]

Meh. Air card = Internet with a gimp leg.

[LTb1ow]

Meh. Air card = Internet with a gimp leg.

Much better than no internet. And in all honesty, it was pretty quick.

[NJ346]

do you pay to use the droid as a tether or is there an app that lets you get around that?

[LTb1ow]

I use a free app,f paying for something I already pay for

[Frosty]

I use a free app,f paying for something I already pay for

Next week's post will read something like this: "**** Verizon, they found out I was tethering now I have a $400 bill!"

:D

[Anti_Rice_Guy]

My comcast internet has been really sketchy lately too

[LTb1ow]

Next week's post will read something like this: "**** Verizon, they found out I was tethering now I have a $400 bill!"

:D

They can do that?

Damnit. :-?

[BigAls87Z28]

Ahh...was gunna ask you if you know you can get around Big Red from finding out.

If it works...let me know, Ill do it.

[WildBillyT]

They can do that?

Damnit. :-?

It will depend on which data plan you've got.

[LTb1ow]

Unlimited data etc.

[WildBillyT]

Unlimited data etc.

I would guess you would be OK then.

[BigAls87Z28]

They might figure it out....

[WildBillyT]

They might figure it out....

I am fairly certain you can do it if you are within your data plan's parameters of usage. It acts like an air card when you tether it.

[LTb1ow]

I am fairly certain you can do it if you are within your data plan's parameters of usage. It acts like an air card when you tether it.

But I know if you use the verizon tether app, you pay for it. So IDK.

[WildBillyT]

But I know if you use the verizon tether app, you pay for it. So IDK.

Woof. Let me know how it pans out.

[Knipps]

My friend did it with his original Droid and nothing's happened yet YMMV

[Savage_Messiah]

what the flying ****ing **** does YMMV mean

[V]

google kasey, google...

[Anti_Rice_Guy]

what the flying ****ing **** does YMMV mean

http://tinyurl.com/b8pg6a

[LTb1ow]

Well apparently my brother has been using it for internet for a while now, damn college kids... last months bill indicated a large data use but no fees etc.

So we are good to go.

[sweetbmxrider]

Download musiccccccccccccccc

[BigAls87Z28]

Awesome! Which app did you download?

[LTb1ow]

Easy tether, pretty straightforward, and its easy to switch between using the verizon or comcast connection.

[BigAls87Z28]

do you have to download anything on your laptop?

[LTb1ow]

Ya, you download the app, then connect via USB, install program and voila.

[BigAls87Z28]

Oooo....gunna have to try it. My laptop is a POS when it comes to internet connections. We will see how this works.

[Knipps]

I think the kid was keeping his use <5GB a month, If you can manage that it shouldn't be a problem

[WildBillyT]

I think the kid was keeping his use <5GB a month, If you can manage that it shouldn't be a problem

Even then, if you have the unlimited data plan I don't think they can say ****. At work we have a bunch of air cards issued out there (each has an issued phone # and they are treated like a phone) and some people used them as their normal internet connection every day for months. Performance is meh but it works. I've done way more than 5Gb a month on my MiFi and Verizon didn't say anything either.

[LTb1ow]

Oooo....gunna have to try it. My laptop is a POS when it comes to internet connections. We will see how this works.

Def give it a shot, the only thing it has given me an issue with is getting to my school google email account... which doesn't make sense being as I can do it on the browser on the phone.. :lol:

But, its def faster than dial up yo! 8-)

[HeadlessNorseman]

They can do that?

Damnit. :-?

If you have a GSM phone like T mobile you can root it and controll pretty much everything it does. And they will never know you are tethering it, other than a somewhat high data usage. Verizon can keep track of it

[NJ346]

Def give it a shot, the only thing it has given me an issue with is getting to my school google email account... which doesn't make sense being as I can do it on the browser on the phone.. :lol:

But, its def faster than dial up yo! 8-)

I looked up easytether last night after this thread and the problem with the google account is that it tries to connect through https which isn't supported in the free version of easytether but if you buy it for $9.99 it is. I'm gonna give it a try one of these days. Gonna be pretty sweet to have internet while your at say Atco:nod:

[LTb1ow]

I looked up easytether last night after this thread and the problem with the google account is that it tries to connect through https which isn't supported in the free version of easytether but if you buy it for $9.99 it is. I'm gonna give it a try one of these days. Gonna be pretty sweet to have internet while your at say Atco:nod:

If you get service, which I think I did, but not sure. :nod:

[NJ346]

If you get service, which I think I did, but not sure. :nod:

service was always spotty for me, but I haven't been there in almost a year so it could have gotten better, and I have a better phone now

[Tru2Chevy]

AFAIK, Verizon will only flip and make you pay if they find that you are using the phone as a mobile hotspot (rooted) without paying them for it. The single USB-tethering doesn't seem to ruffle their feathers.

I was gonna do the USB tether on my X, but every app that I have looked at seems to have either no support, or very sketchy support for PowerPC Macs, and my laptop is a G4 powerbook, so it's not much use to me.

- Justin

[BigAls87Z28]

Easytether looks like it had a recent update for Macs.

[Blackbirdws6]

Tethering via USB is fine and you won't get charged as long as you have a good data plan. If you tether from the droid wirelessly (hot spot), this is when they will charge you. Rooted Droid here with a nice wireless tether app....no charges on my bill outside of my normal plan.

[LTb1ow]

Well comcast was at my house for two hours, managed to make the upstairs tvs all fuzzy and did not fix the internet iissue. Lovely.

[Frosty]

pwnd by the Comcast sub-contractor.

What did he say after he made the problem worse?

[LTb1ow]

The lack of internet is being caused by an issue at the pole, so it was out of his control. However, my upstairs cable apparently was creating a large amount of noise and to prevent it from spreading they. Installed a pad to keep it contained. So,gotta go find that and remove it.

[PolarBear]

Performance is meh but it works. I've done way more than 5Gb a month on my MiFi and Verizon didn't say anything either.

What company is the Meh performance? Verizon? If so, as I have said all along, VZ FTL. I have T-mobile and I tether mine to the tune of up 40 GB a month and I have no performance issues. A lot of the time it is better than the dedicated 100MB internet connection we have at work. We also use the air cards through Sprint (I think) and they have performance issues with them on the computers out in the field

[WildBillyT]

What company is the Meh performance? Verizon? If so, as I have said all along, VZ FTL. I have T-mobile and I tether mine to the tune of up 40 GB a month and I have no performance issues. A lot of the time it is better than the dedicated 100MB internet connection we have at work. We also use the air cards through Sprint (I think) and they have performance issues with them on the computers out in the field

I can vouch for VZ and AT&T being meh. Granted I throw a ton of data around but it's still mediocre even if I'm not.

[Anti_Rice_Guy]

Verizon prides itself on reliability, not overall speed.

[Tru2Chevy]

Tethering via USB is fine and you won't get charged as long as you have a good data plan. If you tether from the droid wirelessly (hot spot), this is when they will charge you. Rooted Droid here with a nice wireless tether app....no charges on my bill outside of my normal plan.

It's very unlikely to happen unless you start transferring large amounts of data monthly across that wireless tether, but if VZW catches you doing that, you are gonna pay. They gonna be mad at you.....

- Justin