What is the big deal of a 3g prime I tether at 4 LTE speeds all day.
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cjbailey75 said:
What is the big deal of a 3g prime I tether at 4 LTE speeds all day.
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Europe doesn't have LTE And tether sucks battery faster than any game
But I don't need any kind of mobile connectivity anyway on my Prime, HSPA tether is enough
cjbailey75 said:
What is the big deal of a 3g prime I tether at 4 LTE speeds all day.
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anyone who buys a 3G tablet likes wasting money or has so much they don't know what to do with free Wi-Fi/USB/Bluetooth tether from smartphone is the only way to go even my 55 year old father knows as much
cjbailey75 said:
What is the big deal of a 3g prime I tether at 4 LTE speeds all day.
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Yea, I hotspot from my phone now, but if money was no object I'd prefer the setup I previously had with my xoom.
xdaspyder said:
Yea, I hotspot from my phone now, but if money was no object I'd prefer the setup I previously had with my xoom.
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It would be nice, if money was no object. But given that it is, I'm happy tethering my phone; I don't have cause to use my tablet outside of Wi-Fi enabled areas enough to warrant another data plan.
in maine we will not have 4 lte anytime soon, so up here getting some thing lte is a waste.
Because companies like Verizon and At&t limit you to 2GB a month and there's no way you could share the connection with your phone AND tablet for a whole month and not go over that limit?
3G tablet plans cost too much. I just tether to my Galaxy Note as well.
My area doesn't have LTE support. The service providers only just installed new towers a few months ago, and before that my devices were struggling for a signal. What's the point in an LTE device if the most you'll get is hspa?
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I am with T-Mo so LTE is not an option, though speeds are acceptable. I would be willing to shell out a bit for 3G on the tablet for the convenience factor. Since I already have a wi-fi only TP though I am not going to buy another tablet just for 3G.
mattykinsx said:
Because companies like Verizon and At&t limit you to 2GB a month and there's no way you could share the connection with your phone AND tablet for a whole month and not go over that limit?
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Prior to my contract with Verizon its unlimited and they offer 10 gigs for $50 now which is more than enough. Downloading avg of 18mb a sec its wonderful. Tethering is a dream with my gaze rooted.
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jdbaker82 said:
anyone who buys a 3G tablet likes wasting money or has so much they don't know what to do with free Wi-Fi/USB/Bluetooth tether from smartphone is the only way to go even my 55 year old father knows as much
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It depends on how you use your tablet. If you're home or around places with decent Wi-Fi 80% of the time I agree with you. I travel a lot and anyone who does knows you can't depend on Wi-Fi. At hotels, restaurants, or airports.
So you can either get a 3/4G tablet or tether. Tethering is a pain in the ass. Get out the phone, turn on sharing, connect the tablet, disconnect the tablet, turn off sharing. Forget the latter any your phone's battery is hosed. It's hosed anyway because you can literally watch it run down when Wi-Fi sharing's enabled.
Here's some of the advantages of 3/4G:
- Your tablet's always online and can receive e-mails and messages continually.
- You can just flip it open and use it without having to wait for a gazillion background process to all finish competing for the Wi-Fi signal at the same time.
- Your phone's battery is spared the torture of Wi-Fi (or BT) sharing so it's available for calls when you need it.
- You can split your data across multiple devices. For $20 a month on AT&T (they think it's a non-smartphone) my tablet uses 6ishGB of data. I use 4-6GB on my phone too. I'd get flagged and put on a tiered plan if I didn't have seperate devices so it's actually cheaper to have two data plans.
While it's not for everybody it has its advantages. I wouldn't personally own a non-3/4G tablet.
A dialogue between me and my employer.
Employer: Why didn't you get a tablet with 3G/4G built in?
ME:*holding up phone* Do you want to expense two data plans?
Employer: Point taken.
I can leave my wifi tether on literally all day and do very little harm to the battery. Tmobile G2 (HSPA+ 15down2up)
Also there is no conflict with Tmobile's data and phone services. I can answer a call without interrupting my connection.
The trick is to be reasonable about your expectations.
IE: dont stream HD youtube all day, or you'll kill the phone.
I use a 4G (has 3G support) Hotspot device instead of buying additional data plans for various devices.
While I could tether to my phone which is still 3G, when I am in the field, I normally need my phone while using data at the same time and tether would also reduce the battery of the phone quicker as well.
With the 4G hotspot, I can tether up to 5 devices at the same time which includes not only tables, slates, netbooks, notebooks, regular desktops with a WiFi adapter but also even my phone which still has 3G.
In my field kit, I carry a battery unit which will power the 4G hotspot for more than 14 hours continuously, so I can do data for longer than most of the device I could connect to it without AC power.
I can and have many times provided data access to people who were with me who had only WiFi enabled devices securely as well.
Most of the time, I just turn the hotspot on, and stick it in my pocket and have hi-speed Wifi available where I am walking.
I don't use free Unsecure WiFi hotspots.. only secure WiFi connections
I'm on UnNamed Rom v2.2.1 which has native tethering capability, but given AT&T's recent crackdown on tethering, is using Pdanet a better option? I've searched a bit on the topic but most are related to iPhone. I generally don't tether, but may need a few megs here and there when on the road, nothing much, probably less than 50mbs in totally but don't want to get served with AT&T's notice. Just wondering if PDANet is any better in hiding the trace from AT&T, the latest PDANet v3.5 has the ability to hide tethering (level 1 & 2) but they don't recommend it because they claim the traffic is already routed through the phone so should be undetectable.
Has anyone used PDANet on UnNamed and lucky enough to have bypassed ATT detection so far?
From my understanding it doesnt matter if you use the phones native tetther or any other one. once you reach the limit You will still get tethered
chibixzero said:
From my understanding it doesnt matter if you use the phones native tetther or any other one. once you reach the limit You will still get tethered
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This is true, it really doesn't matter anymore.
Once you hit 3gb (or local top %) they throttle you to horrible speeds, so just use the native tethering.
data plan is different than tethering plan. my understanding is throttling of 3gb is applied to mobile data only but I'd still have to pay for separate tethering plan even if I only use 300mb of mobile data.
LiLChris06 said:
This is true, it really doesn't matter anymore.
Once you hit 3gb (or local top %) they throttle you to horrible speeds, so just use the native tethering.
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If you do not have an unlimited plan then it is different, they will charge you extra if you go over.
I wouldn't pay for Tethering if you have a grandfathered unlimited plan.
I have an exhibit t599n I have installed at least 3 roms to see if I can bypass this provider but every time I go to tether I get a message from the provider saying I have to pay an additional 10 dollars to tether whats up with this what are all these roms doing they sure are not working for what its soposed to do bypass the provider.Can someone tell me if im doing something wrong. thanks in advance
Cyonagenmod has a free tether and WiFi spot enabled right in the rom. I am running cm11 m10. I use metro pcs which puts a 5gb limit on data in order to get the WiFi hotspot. But, I have the unlimited 4g lte plan AND hotspot. Thank you cyanogenmod!!!!
Long time reader first time poster.
A couple phone carriers have unlimited 4G device data. As in it will never throttle. I work from my laptop a lot and was bummed to hear that it's only 8 gigs of hotspot data. Yeats ago I paid for a full version of Foxfi and I was wondering if any body knows if usb tether uses hot spot or device data.
Can anyone offer anything on why the WiFi hotspot crawls at 0.6 Mbps DL, in the same location with LTE DL speeds ranging around 100 Mbps, on T-Mobile?
Stock rooted V30S on 8.0.
Is this a phone HW or SW constraint, or does T-Mobile somehow detect that the phone is in hotspot mode and throttle it?
TIA...
Edit: Apparently T-Mobile One plan only provides 3G speeds on WiFi hotspot.
Now I need to look for a root hotspot stealth app, so T-Mobile does not see it is running a hotspot. Anybody have any suggestions?
TIA again...
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If you add TMobile One plus, you can have 20gb of 4g lte hotspot.
agouracaguy said:
If you add TMobile One plus, you can have 20gb of 4g lte hotspot.
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The T-Mobile representation is not clear, it says 4G LTE (*3G data). Direct quote from T-Mobile website:
" 20GB of 4G LTE mobile hotspot data.
With unlimited 3G data. "
Maybe that means 4G up to 20GB then 3G after that, or maybe it is misleading advertising and it is 4G cell network and max 3G speeds on the hotspot, period. (Wireless carriers do have a well-deserved bad reputation for misleading consumers, and I read some users complaining on forums.)
I read about an ADB shell command involving DUN, to bypass TMobile hotspot throttling, but I'm concerned something like this might break something in the phone network config that might require a complete reset or reflash to fix, and I don't want to start down that path (the phone is rooted, 100% reliable with zero problems, and I don't want to screw that up - as fun as it is spending hours on such. with chance of bricking adding additional excitement).
Oh well, 0.6 Mbps is adequate (albeit slow) for basic things in a pinch, just not video. (Cable modem internet service circa late 1990's was "up to" 1 Mbps, this is about the same.)
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I have TMobile hotspot. It's 20gb of 4glte hotspot data, then unlimited 3g. Simple, easy, honest.