Phone tethering

[Gryph]

Does anyone here have a data plan and use their phone as a mobile modem? How are EDGE speeds?

[gavin19]

I don't use mine as a modem but I do have EDGE on my mobile phone. IIRC you can d/l at 200kb/s or a little higher depending on signal strength. Upload speeds I don't have a clue.

[ken_cinder]

My phone is capable via bluetooth, but I've never used it. Too damn expensive, and I wouldn't pay the extra for a plan including it as I would probably never use it.

 

Laptop has WiFi. Why would I need to use this, when there are so many hotspots and unsecured routers to be found?

[Gryph]

Well I would't be asking if there was lots of wifi here.

[ken_cinder]

Well I would't be asking if there was lots of wifi here.

 

Where the hell do you live? I live in like Canadian Hillbilly bastard land and theres WiFi everywhere. Mind you, I can't get a damn thing at work besides the office router, which I haven't had enough free time to hax0r yet.

[Gryph]

There isn't Wifi where I want to use it such as lecture halls and the park.

[Ryuken]

from what i've heard EDGE is slow. and if ur tethering, ur data plan have to support it. I've heard people getting by with using a unlimited data plan for their phone that doesn't support tethering but the thing, They can catch you if they wanted since they would be able to tell the massive data flow ur using. so overall i don't think this is a good idea. maybe u should try gettin a laptop card with a data plan

[Inky]

and read the fine print, most unlimited plans cap at 5gigs a month. I know verizon does and sprint is supposed to go to 5 gigs very soon. edge and evdo are high latency high ping but the actual speeds are decent, not 60 bucks a month decent though. edge is around 200~300kbs evdo can get up to 1mbs

[Gryph]

I won't be using it to download porn or games. Just read some websites.

[Inky]

you'd be surprised how quick you can go through 5 gigs.

[Gryph]

True. flocking ATT and their fake unlimited crap.