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iPhone 5 LTE tether without jailbreak?
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In a perfect world, yes, but without throttling, excess charges would occur, as they do here in Australia. That's why I have 5.5GB data a month on my iPhone 5 (3GB's as an extra data pack).
Tethering great but god it sucks your battery something rotten i wish that apple would hurry up and sort of the bug in the tethering because at the moment it not working i'am unable to try out my iPad mini for tethering.i'am on 3 Network at the moment and for me to tether it cost me 15 quid a month unlimited to tether for 30 days which isn't to bad really.As long as you have plenty of external battery chargers then can tether all day long no problem
I have a USA AT&T iPhone 5 with Unlimited Data.
After a few hours of watching youtube, I exceeded the 5gig limit on Unlimited, and got throttled down to Edge speeds.. .5 megabites per second.
My normal 4g speed is 6 megabites per second.
My normal 3g speed when I had a 3GS, was 1 mb per second.
ATT throttling is slower than 3G, making it useless for video. ATT throttling stops at the end of each billing cycle, until I exceed 5 gigabites again.
ATT throttling is as slow as using an iPhone on Tmobile USA.
there was just another app that fooled apple into allowing tethering, called FlashArmyKnife. Apple blocked it within 10 hours.
After a few hours of watching youtube, I exceeded the 5gig limit on Unlimited, and got throttled down to Edge speeds.. .5 megabites per second.
My normal 4g speed is 6 megabites per second.
My normal 3g speed when I had a 3GS, was 1 mb per second.
ATT throttling is slower than 3G, making it useless for video. ATT throttling stops at the end of each billing cycle, until I exceed 5 gigabites again.
ATT throttling is as slow as using an iPhone on Tmobile USA.
there was just another app that fooled apple into allowing tethering, called FlashArmyKnife. Apple blocked it within 10 hours.
Yeah it takes a little more than a few hours of youtube to go over 5GB of data...
500 Kbps/.50 Mbps is what you're throttling down to on LTE. That's not EDGE speeds to begin with. Also when you're throttled you still get LTE pings.
Not even close to EDGE speeds.
It's not useless for video. I've watched Netflix throttled @ .5 Mbps with the low pings. Not as great quality watching at full speeds but watchable.
> it takes a little more than a few hours of youtube to go over 5GB of data...
I did a quick test yesterday. I watched one Netflix video, and my data usage increased by .5 gigabite, so 10 hours of video would wipe out my 5gig allowance before throttling.
When I first got my iPhone 5, I used it to watch the O'Neill Cold Water Classic online. I blew through my iPhone's 5gig data cap in 3 days. Had to wait until the following month to get my data speeds back.
> It's not useless for video. I've watched Netflix throttled @ .5 Mbps with the low pings. Not as great quality watching at full speeds but watchable.
I agree, it does work, pauses occasionally, and image quality is blurry.
When throttled it also makes the maps app redraw so slowly as to be almost useless, to me. Fortunately, I rely on Navigon more than I rely on mapping apps that use cell phone data.
I did a quick test yesterday. I watched one Netflix video, and my data usage increased by .5 gigabite, so 10 hours of video would wipe out my 5gig allowance before throttling.
When I first got my iPhone 5, I used it to watch the O'Neill Cold Water Classic online. I blew through my iPhone's 5gig data cap in 3 days. Had to wait until the following month to get my data speeds back.
> It's not useless for video. I've watched Netflix throttled @ .5 Mbps with the low pings. Not as great quality watching at full speeds but watchable.
I agree, it does work, pauses occasionally, and image quality is blurry.
When throttled it also makes the maps app redraw so slowly as to be almost useless, to me. Fortunately, I rely on Navigon more than I rely on mapping apps that use cell phone data.
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Exactly.
I can see 10+ hours of video streaming eating up your data. That is a lot of video streaming.
Not a few hours like you said. A few hours would be around 1GB of data.
Sucks but those are the rules.
At least you still got some slow data and dont have to pay any overages if you go over.
This is true. "Handylight" was one of those apps and I managed to snag it before it got pulled. I can tether my laptop to my iPhone with but not another iOS device like an iPad--so it has very limited usefulness for me.
It works because a Mac or PC can project an adhoc network that the iPhone can connect to. Currently, iOS devices can't create one of those.
I got Flash Army and have an AT&T unlimited plan. Will I be able to tether on my iPad via my iPhone? If so will AT&T be able to detect it?
> will AT&T be able to detect it?
my guess is no
I believe that app uses the Data connection
you will just get throttled to .5 mbps if you exceed 5gigs of data. Since the plan is unlimited, you get the .5mbps for free.
I would be curious to know how much data you use per hour when you tether.
When I watch video, it seems to use .5gigs per hour, so after 10 hours of video, Im throttled for the rest of the month. I have ATTusa and iPhone 5, grandfathered with unlimited data..
my guess is no
I believe that app uses the Data connection
you will just get throttled to .5 mbps if you exceed 5gigs of data. Since the plan is unlimited, you get the .5mbps for free.
I would be curious to know how much data you use per hour when you tether.
When I watch video, it seems to use .5gigs per hour, so after 10 hours of video, Im throttled for the rest of the month. I have ATTusa and iPhone 5, grandfathered with unlimited data..
Because they dont want to piss off their partner networks.
Anything can be installed on an android wether approved on their market or not.
On the iphone is not like that.
Everything needs the ok by apple unless you're JB.
Because they dont want to piss off their partner networks.
Anything can be installed on an android wether approved on their market or not.
On the iphone is not like that.
Everything needs the ok by apple unless you're JB.
Who are their partner networks? Obviously not Verizon, because they don't care about FoxFi and have done nothing to stop an app from turning an android phone into a wifi hotspot on their network, especially for those with the unlimited data plan. With the share everything plan, it doesn't matter.
Unless you're on a shared data plan tethering will not be free unless you jail break your phone. And unfortunately there's no jail break available for the iPhone 5 (which sucks IMO), but they're working hard on it.
Yes, I meant carriers like verizon and such networks that sell their devices officially.
I dont use an android by my guess is foxfi is something like MyWi is for a JB iphones.
In simple terms its against their app submission rules.
If it duplicates what their stock personal hotspot does then they will never allow it in. Those options are set there by the carrier config files that are set depending on your agreement with your wireless provider.
I agree that it does suck that they wont allow any apps like that legally in the appstore.
It would be one less thing I would need to JB my iphone for.
Odd that Verizon has no say over the android phones, since they sell more of those phones and they can add all their bloatware. It would seem that Verzion has more control over android phone makers and they could easily block any app from allowing non sanctioned wifi hotspot apps. Right now, you don't even need to root an android phone to create a free wifi hotspot.
That's nice.
I wish cool stuff like that would be allowed on the appstore but Im not holding my breath.
Apps and tons of nice and usefull packages that are on cydia to be able to be installed via the official appstore.
Who am I kidding? Not gonna happen. Please iphone 5 JB come quick
That what it seems like for me about .5 gigs per hour. Being throttled on LTE isn't that bad though at .5 Mbps down and up especially with low pings. Video is watchable but of course it's better watching video at full speed.
I was able to do it. My wife still has her unlimited plan on her VZW GNex and is able to use FoxFi to tether without being charged a tethering fee.
I don't know just the whole process I guess but you can always revert back to iOS if need be, right? Anyway I didn't think there was a JB of the latest iOS.....