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Hot spot 4.3
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...excuse me for being naive but is it just me that doesn't see the point of this new 'personal hotspot' thing in ios 4.3?
We already have tethering so I don't really see what functions personal hotspot has over tethering?
We already have tethering so I don't really see what functions personal hotspot has over tethering?
is that a question?
i don't know what you're asking.
Personal Hotspot IS tethering. 3GS will be able to tether, just not through wifi hotspot.
i don't know what you're asking.
Personal Hotspot IS tethering. 3GS will be able to tether, just not through wifi hotspot.
...I'm asking - if we already have tethering on our iPhone 4s, what does personal hotspot offer over tethering? The only difference, that I can see, is one is wireless, one isn't......?!
...I'm asking - if we already have tethering on our iPhone 4s, what does personal hotspot offer over tethering? The only difference, that I can see, is one is wireless, one isn't......?!
Through tethering(USB or Bluetooth) you can only connect one device at a time.
The wifi hotspot should allow multiple connections at a time(Say iPad and MacBook and a iPod Touch)
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)
You should be able to wireless tether to anything that can use a wifi signal. So no iTunes involved. That's a big plus to me.
Dino F said:
...I'm asking - if we already have tethering on our iPhone 4s, what does personal hotspot offer over tethering? The only difference, that I can see, is one is wireless, one isn't......?!
You should be able to wireless tether to anything that can use a wifi signal. So no iTunes involved. That's a big plus to me.
...I'm asking - if we already have tethering on our iPhone 4s, what does personal hotspot offer over tethering? The only difference, that I can see, is one is wireless, one isn't......?!
Simple... iPad.
Ipad couldn't tether and various other device couldn't tether. now if a device is wi-fi capable, then you're good as gold.
That means I can now save $20-35 a month and not get a 3G plan on my iPad
You have to pay an additional $20 per month to connect your IPAD to the Iphone Hotspot.
AT&T is changing the DataPro plan to 4GB for $25 and you pay an additional $20 for the Hotspot to up to 5 devices.
Total $45 per month for 4GB of data shared on all devices.
With the WiFi only IPAD you will save $5.
But will lose $130 upfront when you buy the iPad with 3G. Paying the $45 a month for the iPhone 4 hotspot is a much better deal as you can also use the internet for whatever else you'd like.
