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Just received AT&T tethering notice while using tetherme..
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I haven't gotten a notice but I've only used it a few times and only for 5-10 minutes each time. Although it seems like it doesn't matter how long you use it. If someone knows I would be interested how the tether app tethers. I didn't look into it I just saw tethering without jailbreaking so I bought it for when i upgrade my device and I can't jailbreak.
No way, those are compressed, I stream pretty often and my usage is close to 2gb (Often to me is about 2 episode daily, during lunch and in the afternoon).
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Completely agree, I've used the same phone non jailbroken, no tethering and have used over 15gb of data. Netflix consumes a ton.
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Completely agree, I've used the same phone non jailbroken, no tethering and have used over 15gb of data. Netflix consumes a ton.
although I don't have netflix steaming anymore, I do have super slow Sprint and use Pandora and Youtube pretty often and still go through almost 3gb a month
you could just switch to Sprint, they are hurting so much they don't care how much you tether, as I said before I used to tether almost 20gb a month and never once received a notice
of course speeds are way slower over in CDMA
It's not worth it to tether over ATT in NYC. I gave up because it was so slow and I ended up getting my wife a 3GB Elevate 4G MiFi so she could tether to her heart's content without ATT stressing me out.
They still throttle her since she discovered Vevo and wanted to stream music videos all day. They cut her off right at 2.1Gb or so and then she waits for the next month.
Henry
Alright. Sprint and AT&T are different. I remember on Sprint you could tether w/ some phones without Sprint even noticing for some reason. I remember the Samsung Instinct used to do it. I think the HTC Touch Pro as well.
I just JB my iphone 5 and really looking hard at which tether app to use.
I'm on att and grand fathered unlimited plan (5gb).
I need to tether for around 4 hours each weekend for work. It would cost $45 extra a month to pay att to use my own data to tether.
The FCC got verizon to allow users to use their data the way they want...need att same way.
Tetherme ?
mywi?
Pdanet (needs to be updated..tried but no luck)
itether ?
Thanks!
I'm on att and grand fathered unlimited plan (5gb).
I need to tether for around 4 hours each weekend for work. It would cost $45 extra a month to pay att to use my own data to tether.
The FCC got verizon to allow users to use their data the way they want...need att same way.
Tetherme ?
mywi?
Pdanet (needs to be updated..tried but no luck)
itether ?
Thanks!
PDanet has not gotten back to me via twitter on their account or email in 3 days for the iphone version.
I may try tether.com which does not use the carriers apn so harder to detect. And maybe with it hotspot shield (will test speed with both active).
Mywi 6 seems to use same carrier apn so easily detected for us grand father plans.
I may try tether.com which does not use the carriers apn so harder to detect. And maybe with it hotspot shield (will test speed with both active).
Mywi 6 seems to use same carrier apn so easily detected for us grand father plans.
are people still getting these notices? I remember when they came out last year. I used mywi (or pdanet...not sure) for maybe like 2-3 minutes as a test. Never used it again. A little bit later I got the notice about tethering from ATT
The only way for AT&T to notice is for your data usage to spike. Thats usually an indicative of extra data usage.
Have no fear using it. However, just be cautious on how much and long your session will be.
Furthermore, if your data usage was already high prior to using Tethering apps, then its unlikely it will go by noticed if data usage rises a bit. However, still exercise caution.
but i used it for like 2 minutes. just tethered a laptop to it and opened up a webpage and got the message about tethered days afterwards.
I am at 7 gigs this month on verizon, thanks to LTE and iTunes match (no tethering)
I regularly tether more than 80GB per month on Verizon using a rooted Galaxy Nexus. Not a single peep, and I've been doing it for the last year.
It's my only source of internet.
I think AT&T is a lot more strict, or perhaps they use detection software that Verizon doesn't. Who knows.
I effortlessly warn people of this time and time again, and they mocked me.
Hopefully it starts to sink in.
AT&T has more people on their network with unlimited than Verizon. (using iPhones that is)
Moreover, Verizon's 3G network is annoyingly slow so people barely bother to use it like AT&T's which on 3G alone reaches 8Mb/s.