[GRLUG] tethering

Jonathan Jesse jjesse at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 08:49:36 EDT 2011


On Verizon you have to root the phone for tethering
On Sep 11, 2011 8:41 PM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Brad Becker <bradjbecker at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> What are you guys pulling for speeds?
>
> 3G, don't know. Didn't want to spend quota on a throughput test.
> Enough that ssh works great, email works great, all general web
> browsing is fine.
>
> 2G, dial-up speeds. ssh is jittery. Anything else is "hope it finishes
> downloading before I get bumped to another tower."
>
> While I was running mtr while tethered and driving through TN/KY/GA
> last weekend, I was amused that T-Mobile's network attempts to
> guarantee delivery of ICMP echo; when I had good signal, it'd be
> something like 100ms ping times. If I lost signal, I wouldn't see
> anything, but when I got it back, the missing responses would flood
> in.
>
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