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Are you in the US? How lenient are carriers these days when it comes to tethering? I have AT&T and while their bandwidth and coverage is good, I cannot get un
by some-guy 11y ago
Are you in the US? How lenient are carriers these days when it comes to tethering? I have AT&T and while their bandwidth and coverage is good, I cannot get unlimited data with my plan so I'm SOL.
- eli 11y agoMy T-Mobile plan comes with 7GB of tethering. Not quite unlimited, but I've never come close to hitting it.
- r00fus 11y agoI have TMO with 4.5GB + tethering and have used it copiously. On a normal month I never get near the limit. On a heavy month, usually when traveling with family, I have dipped into and subsequently drained my Data Stash, but I currently have 13GB there for that heavy month. In general however, I rely heavily on hotel wifi, as weak data signal is a real thing and drains battery. Tethering is a great backup, but not my daily driver even if I had unlimited.
- wtallis 11y agoSince the new FCC net neutrality rules went into effect, carriers are no longer allowed to actively interfere with tethering.
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoUnless you're on a grandfathered AT&T unlimited plan.
- wtallis 11y agoThe FCC's regulations have no such exception. Any "grandfathering" is purely AT&T's generosity and has no legal significance. They're still bound by the current FCC regulations.
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoInteresting. I thought I had read this was an exemption. Even people in ATT's forums are having same question: https://forums.att.com/t5/Data-Messaging-Features-Internet/Why-can-t-I-tether-with-my-Grandfathered-Unlimited-Data-Plan/td-p/4203801 https://forums.att.com/t5/Data-Messaging-Features-Internet/W...
- ejdyksen 11y agoI have Verizon, and tethering just comes out of my 5GB data cap. I've never even come close to using all my data, but then again, I'm somewhat frugal with my data when I am tethering.
- sliverstorm 11y agoInexpensive unlimited data is getting scarce, but I think that's reasonable. LTE capacity is by nature more limited & expensive than wired capacity. For many activity categories- email, light browsing, etc- a few GB per month is more than sufficient. If you want to torrent terabytes per month or run multiple Netflix streams all day long, you are a three or even six sigma user, and carriers realize that subsidizing your unusual usage with other subscriber's fees increases costs for the average user, making the carrier less cost-competitive. So you are either going to get pushed to hard lines, or you are going to have to pay for those terabytes of data. My phone (Verizon prepaid) freely allows me to tether, although this relaxation is a recent development so there are probably many older phones that simply have not been updated to allow tethering. My 1GB is definitely a snug limit but not unworkable.
- spaceisballer 11y agoI used to have unlimited data on my iPhone but ditched it for 15GB and unlimited talk and text (wife and I split) and its 15 bucks less than we were paying a month and she used to have line 350mb of data. They would not allow me to tether with my unlimited data. Now I don't know if that got lifted or not for grandfathered plans. But I use my tethering all the time with my laptop and it's great.
- uptown 11y agoI use Verizon pre-paid, and tethering is included free. You can add-on data-packs that roll-over for up to three months as needed, and I use a LittleSnitch profile to curtail things like backup services and other heavy-data use services when I'm tethered.
- rayiner 11y agoI don't pay anything extra to tether my iPhone to my Mac (on Verizon). And I regularly get 10 Mbps in downtown Baltimore.