<p>I do have two separate installations to play with. One is the vanilla Debian distro for RPi and the other is raspbmc. I also have constructed one of the paper "cases" out of card stock and I have five copies for those who want to try their hand at it!</p>
<p>-Josh</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 18, 2012 5:17 PM, "Mike Williams" <<a href="mailto:knightperson@zuzax.com">knightperson@zuzax.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I would like to have a round table about this issue, as I'm not quite understanding all the concepts. I know how wireless tethering and wifi hotspotting works as I use it myself, but I'm not sure what you gain from the little projects you're doing.<br>
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I use tethering (in fact I'm typing this through a tethered laptop) on my T-Mobile smartphone, and I don't officially have the package that allows full tethering, but TM hasn't made an issue about it. I suspect that as long as I'm not going nuts and streaming Netflix all the time across their cellular network they don't care. With a previous device, I ran a program on the phone and another on the laptop (Windows only, unfortunately) that basically tunneled my traffic through the ADB interface.<br>
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On 07/18/2012 03:18 PM, megadave wrote:<br>
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:09 PM, L. V. Lammert <<a href="mailto:lvl@omnitec.net" target="_blank">lvl@omnitec.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, megadave wrote:<br>
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Blocked unless your carrier enables it.<br>
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Au contrare, .. just root your phone and Viola'! You will be rooting it<br>
anyway, ..<br>
</blockquote>
Rooting doesnt let you enable tethering. And rooting is NOT required<br>
for my method.<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Most charge an extra fee to do so.<br>
<br>
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Only if you use their service, which is dumb for a single device.<br>
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</blockquote>
Cell carriers want to charge you an extra fee to use your cellphones<br>
cellular Internet connection from your laptop. If you arent using<br>
their service, then "tethering" isn't what you are doing.<br>
<br>
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If you get one of the little wireless modems, however, it can be worth the<br>
price; the traffic shaping is horrible on a ssh connection! It will drop<br>
you about ever five minutes.<br>
</blockquote>
I have experienced no such problems.<br>
<br>
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Some refuse to do it at all.<br>
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</blockquote>
The best provider is Sprint anyway - unlimited data. Get it and be<br>
grandfathered while you can.<br>
</blockquote>
Perhaps, but they will still charge extra to "enable" the tethering<br>
option that will allow you to use your cell Internet from your laptop<br>
or other device. And their network lags behind others in coverage.<br>
<br>
In any case, I know what works for me and my budget, and am happy to<br>
share my solution with anyone that is interested. If you have a<br>
different solution that works for you, by all means continue to do so.<br>
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