[GRLUG] GRLUG Raspberry Pi SOCIAL Tomorrow July 18 @ The Warehouse

[Mike Williams]

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.

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.

On 07/18/2012 03:18 PM, megadave wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:09 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, megadave wrote:
>>
>>> Blocked unless your carrier enables it.
>>>
>> Au contrare, .. just root your phone and Viola'! You will be rooting it
>> anyway, ..
> Rooting doesnt let you enable tethering. And rooting is NOT required
> for my method.
>
>>> Most charge an extra fee to do so.
>>>
>> Only if you use their service, which is dumb for a single device.
>>
> Cell carriers want to charge you an extra fee to use your cellphones
> cellular Internet connection from your laptop. If you arent using
> their service, then "tethering" isn't what you are doing.
>
>> If you get one of the little wireless modems, however, it can be worth the
>> price; the traffic shaping is horrible on a ssh connection! It will drop
>> you about ever five minutes.
> I have experienced no such problems.
>
>
>>> Some refuse to do it at all.
>>>
>> The best provider is Sprint anyway - unlimited data. Get it and be
>> grandfathered while you can.
> Perhaps, but they will still charge extra to "enable" the tethering
> option that will allow you to use your cell Internet from your laptop
> or other device. And their network lags behind others in coverage.
>
> In any case, I know what works for me and my budget, and am happy to
> share my solution with anyone that is interested. If you have a
> different solution that works for you, by all means continue to do so.
>
>>          Lee
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