Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Blackberry Tethers Free!

tetherbb I’ve been ”tethering” my Blackberry for a couple months.  More explicitly, I’ve been connecting my Blackberry to my computer and surfing the internet on my laptop through the Blackberry for a couple months.  The connection says it’s 115 kbps, but it feels faster than that.  It’s a good internet experience I’d say, you just need to wait a little longer on streaming videos like Youtube.  I actually streamed a whole episode of some TV show and there was no problem.  I think it was 30 Rock off Nbc.com.  And it’s free! 

It’s gotten me through airports, bus rides, car rides, and one hotel that somehow don’t offer Wi-Fi for free.  This is the tutorial I’ve always used to figure out how to tether:

http://www.blackberryforums.com/blackberry-guides/2019-user-howto-use-blackberry-modem-laptop.html

I would say “use it wisely” but it’s free, so use it however you want.
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  1. awattersonFebruary 4, 2009 at 6:10 AM

    Is it true that a lot of models and carriers don't support tethering? Are there hacks available or do you have to have a supported device?

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  2. colinbrownellFebruary 4, 2009 at 6:26 AM

    I don't know much about the Blackberry, but for the iPhone, the only way you can use tethering is by "jailbreaking" the iPhone.

    Apple and AT&T have both announced that they plan on allowing users to tether eventually, but they plan on charging someone around $30/month...

    Also, I don't know how soon we could actually plan on seeing tethering's release seeing that Apple still hasn't released the fabled "push notification" service it announced last year which would make up for the fact that the iPhone does not have background processes.

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  3. Michael KlearFebruary 4, 2009 at 8:42 AM

    as for the BB, I have it enabled for my plan but rarely use it, because I have a USB broadband card that works much better. I had issues with it not wanting to download all my emails in outlook. It would only download partial emails which was annoying. It is around 15 bucks a month just for the service which is fairly steep considering you can't use your phone while its tethered and its rather slow. I would love to see free tethering in the future because it just makes more sense that you don't have to pay extra considering you already pay through the roof for phone service anyway

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  4. ArjunFebruary 5, 2009 at 3:42 PM

    It's free on sprint with the unlimited data plan (no point having bb w/o that plan anyways)

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