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

[Joshua Yuhas]

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!

-Josh
On Jul 18, 2012 5:17 PM, "Mike Williams" <knightperson at zuzax.com> wrote:

> 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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