Heavens! My last message must have gotten corrupted somewhere... Allow me to repeat.
your carrier can not distinguish your computer's usage from your phone's,
The quantity you use may increase when you begin tethering. If you weren't tethering from the start.
My unlimited plan is not 'sized' it is, unlimited. Again, this is Verizon. Who knows what the others do.
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:16, Nathan Cerny [email protected] wrote:
Most carriers won't allow unlimited data with tethering. With unlimited plans, they're sized to assume a maximum throughput that the phone can provide. Tethering drastically increases that throughput.
No. It in no way decreases increases throughput. It actually decreases it, if anything because of the overhead associated with adb, and the usb interface. It's not too big a deal though. It's fine for normal human stuff. I wouldn't try updating all the software on my laptop over it, but I have installed various software from the repos through it. 3G speeds and latency are complete garbage compared to the physically anchored connectivity available to me, so I prefer to use the wired Ethernet or 802.11 access if available.
Yes, you can root your phone to get around it, but i don't think the
You do not need to root an android phone to use adb. Enable USB debugging, install the android SDK on your computer, and you are done. It's not ideal in that it requires "special software" on your computer, but it is Free Software. And the install is trivial.
There is no change to the phone. This requires absolutely no software to be installed on the phone other than what was on it the day Verizon peeled the screen stickers off, and sat it in your hot little hands.
Bring any Android phone in to the next LUG meeting, and I will demonstrate.
carriers will look kindly on that, and I'm pretty sure if you exceed the maximums they'll notice. So even though it's "unlimited," it's really not.
I have never had a month in which I used less than 5GB. I have on several occasions exceeded 20. I have NEVER heard a peep. The only fluctuations on my bill are those approximate $1 line tax charge crap fees.
I imagine the reason they don't care is that 99 out of 100 android phones today are in the hands of people who think facebook is the internet, use yahoo mail, and don't know what a browser means, but they want their tweets. The proles don't even know what a GB is, so the carriers are making a killing off them, and don't mind as much when they actually deliver the service a subscriber is paying for.