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Tether Launches HTML5-Based iPhone Tethering Solution
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I suspect the revenue from overages could go a loooong way towards addressing any tower construction hassle.
Poor carriers...
Luba said:
I suspect the revenue from overages could go a loooong way towards addressing any tower construction hassle.
Poor carriers...
Search the forum, the answer is no.
http://support.giffgaff.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/240/kw/tethering/session/L3NpZC9tdjhDc1FTaw==
It only is allowed on the giggabags
Okay, I bit. While this is a little clunky to setup and this means I won't' use it a lot, this will be worth the $15 first year and $30 per additional year to me since it will save my bacon in those critical locations where I need to use my MacBook Air to do send a file or do something I can't do with my phone. I had toyed with the die of dropping my grandfathered unlimited plan so I could use the personal hotspot feature but the additional cost kept me away. Now I can take better advantage of my unlimited plan which I've been using at about 200mb/ month with lots of overhead before they throttle me.
This is a cool solution.
This is a cool solution.
I want to address the fear factor in these posts. "I don't want to get caught" pops up all over these comments. Caught at what? Using a data play you are paying for? I have the unlimited plan going back to the first iPhone. In all of this time I have hardly ever exceeded 250mb/month total in/out data. Now the generally agreed cap before throttling occurs is 3GB. I am way, way below that and if I get in a jam and want to use this service to get my Mac online rather than drive until I find a wifi hotspot, that's up to me.
I have no intention of "abusing" anyone's network and I bet I'll go months without using the tether service. It's for that reason that I won't be gouged another $30/month to have a limited data plan with tethering. If AT&T has a problem with me, I can go to another carrier and take my $1000 per year in fees away from them. Common sense on the part of all parties here is what is needed, not fear and intimidation.
I for one am sick of being threatened all the time. Drive into California and there are now 12 signs warning me of fines for this, that and the other. Hey, I'm going to behave responsibly, so stop with all the threats. The IRS puts out news stories this time every year telling us we might get audited if we declare legitimate business space in our homes. Let them come and measure the square footage! If I use my health insurance my premium might go up! Stop with the intimidation and just feckin' live!
I have no intention of "abusing" anyone's network and I bet I'll go months without using the tether service. It's for that reason that I won't be gouged another $30/month to have a limited data plan with tethering. If AT&T has a problem with me, I can go to another carrier and take my $1000 per year in fees away from them. Common sense on the part of all parties here is what is needed, not fear and intimidation.
I for one am sick of being threatened all the time. Drive into California and there are now 12 signs warning me of fines for this, that and the other. Hey, I'm going to behave responsibly, so stop with all the threats. The IRS puts out news stories this time every year telling us we might get audited if we declare legitimate business space in our homes. Let them come and measure the square footage! If I use my health insurance my premium might go up! Stop with the intimidation and just feckin' live!
Nice!! Now Apple doesn't have to worry about tethering apps on their store.
People tether, carriers get raged, Apple isn't held responsible because it's not an app!
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But you have to pay monthly.... for a web app. I'd rather just jailbreak or just not tether because it wastes bandwidth on your plan. If you have unlimited, though, you can uber-spam the network
oops...i thought i read 15$ for the first year, as in a flat 15$ for 12 months of use.
"iTether users can continue to use the service, we just suggest they do not update. If they wish to use our new HTML5 version they will need to pay again. This is the unfortunate position that Apple left us in."
http://www.tuaw.com/2012/03/10/tether-for-iphone-returns-as-an-html5-app/
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You read it correctly...it's $15 for the first year if you get it before Friday March 16th 2012. After that it will go up to the regular rate of $30/year
It is $15 for the first year. It's already been discussed in posts 244-249 in this thread. Also read this article......
http://www.tuaw.com/2012/03/10/tether-for-iphone-returns-as-an-html5-app/
Works for me. Has gotten me out of a number of jams. Works fast and easy, both in OSX and Windows 7. Best $15 I have ever spent.
what made this app popular in the app store was that it was a ONE TIME fee to get an app that allowed you to use the bandwidth you are already paying for. Now they have moved to this "milk their customers" yearly fee model. luckily I downloaded it when it was in the app store
Yea ,but if I pay for 2 gigs a month and only use 1 gig, give me a refuned or let me use the gigs I pay for like I want to. If I use more than I pay for send a bill for it. What difference does it make how I use the data I pay for. As for as I'm concerned at&t is stealing from it's customers.
I killed my Hotspot plan a few days ago to reduce my monthly bill by $21.70.
I just hooked up tether for the $15.0 first year charge. It seems to work and I just want something for the 2 to 3 times a month I need it, and not get raped for it.
I hope it last, and it does not get removed.
I just hooked up tether for the $15.0 first year charge. It seems to work and I just want something for the 2 to 3 times a month I need it, and not get raped for it.
I hope it last, and it does not get removed.
As part of my developer account, I just use the iProxy source code and run that.
https://github.com/tcurdt/iProxy
https://github.com/tcurdt/iProxy
You don't pay for 2 GB per month. You pay for "up to 2 GB" per month. That's a difference.
AT&T charges whatever it costs, plus some extra for profit. But for your contract, you don't pay the cost of 2 GB per month plus some extra, you pay for "average cost of all customers on the 'up to 2 GB per month' plan" plus some extra, which is a lot less.
Yep. which is a completely unadvertised (we keep the numbers) figure. So that means you aren't even given a fair quantitive amount for how much you are really paying for. That's probably the main thing. For instance, people would be up in arms if anything they buy from a store wasn't equal to the amount shown.
So if i buy cereal and it says on the box that you get 17 oz, they could get away with *up to* 17 oz, but the amount could be less. With that reasoning, AT&T could give you only 256MB on a 2GB charged account and it would be *perfectly* fine.
So that actually supports, even more, people who want to actually find other ways to get their data than what AT&T tries to limit to, if only to get the amount they plan to use with as close to the price and amount they actually got a written quote for. Because otherwise getting what they intended to pay for a legal listed amount doesn't exist, regardless how you spin how legal AT&T is doing things. So in regards, those finding out a tethering method and using up to said bandwidth, are the only people who actually get close to said *listed and written* amount-per-cost.
So if i buy cereal and it says on the box that you get 17 oz, they could get away with *up to* 17 oz, but the amount could be less. With that reasoning, AT&T could give you only 256MB on a 2GB charged account and it would be *perfectly* fine.
So that actually supports, even more, people who want to actually find other ways to get their data than what AT&T tries to limit to, if only to get the amount they plan to use with as close to the price and amount they actually got a written quote for. Because otherwise getting what they intended to pay for a legal listed amount doesn't exist, regardless how you spin how legal AT&T is doing things. So in regards, those finding out a tethering method and using up to said bandwidth, are the only people who actually get close to said *listed and written* amount-per-cost.
I still cannot understand why wi-fi tethering is not allowed in USA
That is just insane, there is not a single logical reason to restrict wi-fi hotspotting. It does not overload cellural networks, it does nothing "bad" for them...
19,90 euros here for 4G speed-limited to 50 mbit/s no data-limits. Download torrents, youtube, anything as much as the network can handle. No punishments from the carrier. 39,90 euros for 100mbit connection and no limits.
What in the hell is the point having LTE speeds if they limit your data usage? Now you can watch one HD youtube video and you have used all of your monthly data!!
That is just insane, there is not a single logical reason to restrict wi-fi hotspotting. It does not overload cellural networks, it does nothing "bad" for them...
19,90 euros here for 4G speed-limited to 50 mbit/s no data-limits. Download torrents, youtube, anything as much as the network can handle. No punishments from the carrier. 39,90 euros for 100mbit connection and no limits.
What in the hell is the point having LTE speeds if they limit your data usage? Now you can watch one HD youtube video and you have used all of your monthly data!!
Ah right, carriers here in NZ have hardly heard of it... As long as they get paid for the data that you use, I don't think they really care.
Thanks.
Will AT&T figure it out?
Of course they will.. Can they tell you use it? of course they can... This is a standard website. so in essence they only need to ask their billing system "How much data did customer X send and receive to/from itether.com?" Its not like it is a secret that many network companies keep historical NETFLOW information per customer.
And since it is going to and from a single web site blocking it is very easy for AT&T. Even blocking PER customer wouldn't be that hard.
itether may want to consider randomly selecting tunnel points or automatically building new ones (somehow) when existing ones are blocked. But *shrug* I have an account not, if nothing else it is cool that a HTML5 can do this.
Scott
Of course they will.. Can they tell you use it? of course they can... This is a standard website. so in essence they only need to ask their billing system "How much data did customer X send and receive to/from itether.com?" Its not like it is a secret that many network companies keep historical NETFLOW information per customer.
And since it is going to and from a single web site blocking it is very easy for AT&T. Even blocking PER customer wouldn't be that hard.
itether may want to consider randomly selecting tunnel points or automatically building new ones (somehow) when existing ones are blocked. But *shrug* I have an account not, if nothing else it is cool that a HTML5 can do this.
Scott