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Correct. I don't know if Sprint has a device that tethers wirelessly at this point or not. Typically the providers all watch each what each other is doing and follow suit with the most popular features and similar pricing though.

 

I was looking at the plans and was a bit confused. I am on verizon and have the moto droid. and a mifi card. Love the idea of combining the two. but couldn't find on their site where it was 10 for each extra gig. I saw the same fees I am all ready paying for smart phone unlimited data. I saw the wifi hot spot fee but couldn't find the gig limit on it and the extra gigs fees. I love my verizon mifi. I avg about 200-240 pings in wow. so if I had a better laptop rather then this netbook I could actually play without limitations.

 

The $10/gig overage was what the sales guy said when they were setting it up for me on Thursday. HOWEVER, I would definitely get all of that very clear during the sales process with any provider before committing. They also have a nasty tendency to "change" things in the small print often.

I found a very good review of the X verses the new HTC Evo also because the EVO apparently has this hotspot capability for $30 per month, but according to this review has no cap. Check that out here: http://jkontherun.com/2010/07/11/droid-x-and-htc-evo-4g-head-to-head/

I do find this feature really intriguing and can't see how this won't become a standard as they evolve. For your regular "mom and pop" it isn't necessarily such a big deal, but for truckers this could be rather huge when you figure that they pay $60 per month on average for aircards on top of their cellular.

Sorry that it's kinda big, but I was trying to get the quality up high enough to see the screens. So here are two versions to view it:

Droid X mobile hotspot demo (large 9.7 Meg)

Droid X mobile hotspot demo (small 5.7 Meg)

 

how do they know if your tethering or not i have a iphone jailbroke and i download movies to it what ever im sure i use alot of gigs a month i also have the mywi which tethers it but far as the phone company knows im just downloading something.
can someone help me out here? if i dont ask for a tethering plan how do they know?

 

On AT&T, The phones use a different network, MediaNet, than what the tethered devices and the myfi uses. So basically, if you have a MediaNet account and your pulling in 5 gigs a month, you raise a red flag and get noticed. Once they look and see what kind of traffic you are using, you're busted.

 

Ok i have no idea about gigibites(i have a new laptop). But I have alltell for phone have a cord that plugs into my phone and laptop. cost $30 a month for internet anywhere and i do go everywhere in the u.s. with it also phone is unlimited at $40 a month.havent had any problems with it.

 

I can do that with my AT&T phone as well. Just because I can doesn't mean I'm allowed to. If you check, it probably breaks the terms of service agreement you agreed to when you got your phone. That's fine as long as you are getting away with it. All I can tell you is if you are just looking at static web pages for a few minutes a day, you should be fine. If you spend 4 hours a day playing World of Warcraft, or spend as little as 30 minutes a day watching youtube videos, you're going to get caught. You might get your account cancelled, or if they really feel rambunctious, they'll slip a huge overage charge into your bill. Bottom line, I'd be careful.

 

This will allow you to plug your Aircard into it and it turns into a mini WI-FI hotspot.. got mine at Bestbuy $100.

mark

 

My account says unlimited on both and i asked about it in their store and bought everything from them and made them show me how to do it. If i ever have a problem ill make them pull the stores tapes for that day.

oh and what is world of witchcraft???

 

I have been told that the wifi tethering on the Sprint EVO has no data limit. I'm looking at getting one if that's the case.