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Did I just get caught tethering?

slapguts

slapguts

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Huh. Maybe they can trace it. I'm using Apple's built in solution, included with 3.0.

EDIT: I did tether my laptop to my iphone at Starbucks the other day to use their 'Free for iPhones' wifi, wonder if they could tell I was tethered.
 

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slapguts said:
Huh. Maybe they can trace it. I'm using Apple's built in solution, included with 3.0.

EDIT: I did tether my laptop to my iphone at Starbucks the other day to use their 'Free for iPhones' wifi, wonder if they could tell I was tethered.
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You don't need to tether to use the free WiFi at starbucks. Can't you just login using your AT&T mobile number? I use their WiFi all the time, then again I am also an AT&T U-Verse customer and use my AT&T email address and password to login.
 
Yup, pointless paranoia. Sorry about that.

I just figured the way AT&T seems to be locking down on all of us 'advance' users of 3.0 and our attempts to get MMS to work, killing tethering was just the next step.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/5H11)

citron230 said:
slapguts said:
Huh. Maybe they can trace it. I'm using Apple's built in solution, included with 3.0.

EDIT: I did tether my laptop to my iphone at Starbucks the other day to use their 'Free for iPhones' wifi, wonder if they could tell I was tethered.
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You don't need to tether to use the free WiFi at starbucks. Can't you just login using your AT&T mobile number? I use their WiFi all the time, then again I am also an AT&T U-Verse customer and use my AT&T email address and password to login.
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It's because of U-Verse that you get it free on something other than the iPhone. I've never used the free iPhone WiFi thanks to U-Verse.
 
JDee said:
I think it's just the text you get when you start tethering.
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I think you are right. To the original poster: I wouldn't worry about it too much. It's not like they sent you a message saying "We have detected you are tethering and this is a violation of TOS." I really don't think they have any way of knowing that you are tethering. And, data speed alone is not proof to them - they still have to make a guess. And, it's not worth their time. They aren't going to spend their money hiring someone to spy on you. Don't worry about it too much. They probably send the message you received to everyone when they log on.

Gathomblipoob said:
Did you go blind? 😀
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No, he lost his connection and had to re boot up and re sign on after she left.
 
slapguts said:
Huh. Maybe they can trace it. I'm using Apple's built in solution, included with 3.0.

EDIT: I did tether my laptop to my iphone at Starbucks the other day to use their 'Free for iPhones' wifi, wonder if they could tell I was tethered.
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lol. tethering means using 3G, not wifi.
 
Yah, I agree that it's the standard message after you log on with your iPhone number for the first time. I know of some good meds for paranoia-schizophrenia if you're interested.
 
prospereagle92 said:
nope not true. you can use your iPhone's wifi connection to tether.
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That's right. The definition of tether is: "to be tied to another object."
So, if your computer is connected (tied) to your phone, and then your phone connects to the internet and transmits the data from the phone, through a wire (a tether) to your laptop, then you are tethering.
 
Kilamite said:
Tethering = sharing your iPhone's internet connection.

Probably only supported on 3G..
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Exactly, tethered to the phone. So as long as the phone is connected to the Interwebz somehow, then your sharing that connection. Doesn't matter how it's done.
 
bracing for the bill

The wap.cingular suddenly started showing up on my data charges on the At&T website. I wonder if I will get charged for it? Some transfers show up as "phone" when I used the phone, then as "wap.cingular" when I was tethering.

Has anyone else noticed any changes when they looked at their account online?
 
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