Here on Verizon in the states there is no separate charge for tethering.
It just uses up whatever data plan you already have on the phone. I have
a 1GB plan so if I turn on tethering my phone just shows up as a wifi
hotspot. I can then connect my Mac laptop to it and download/send email
or what
Just to ad to that, if you have T-Mobile you’re automatically opted in to a
service that gives free streaming to certain locations like Netflix. This
being said, they also massively manipulate your data stream to these sites and
you’re not getting the rate you think. So if you want true uninter
Doesn’t being CEO require a certain elevation of the dick quotient anyway?
:)
I think your handle on things over here is pretty good. And yes his comments
upset a lot especially in the network community.
He has done well for my portfolio though.
> On Jan 10, 2016, at 7:44 PM, Sabahattin Gucuk
r not pass data well, or would knock me offline when a
> visitor rings.
>
> - Original Message - From: "Scott Granados"
> To:
> Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2016 6:20 PM
> Subject: Re: Cutting the cable
>
>
> Good suggestion although mobile bro
eaking the app in
> question's expection to play back a certain bitrate? Wouldn't all the
> protection in use with things like Netflix be broken by the carriers'
> transcoding of the stream?
>
> - Original Message - From: "Scott Granados"
> To:
>
It’s just throttling. The EFF ran some tests:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/eff-confirms-t-mobiles-bingeon-optimization-just-throttling-applies
It works by essentially tricking devices into requesting lower-bitrate streams.
This is not a sure thing to work; any video that is not streame
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knock me offline when a visitor rings.
- Original Message -
From: "Scott Granados"
To:
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2016 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: Cutting the cable
Good suggestion although mobile broadband in the US is much faster than DSL.
Most DSL is provided by the big inc
by the carriers'
transcoding of the stream?
- Original Message -
From: "Scott Granados"
To:
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2016 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: Cutting the cable
AT&T is your least cost effective option these days. They also throttle
heavily and do lots of man
“Personal Hotspot” (or “Tethering”) is Apple’s silly name for using your iPhone
to share a limited Internet connection to other devices, with the primary
connectivity being provided to the phone by your carrier. With the “Personal
Hotspot” feature, your iPhone broadcasts a wireless signal that
What exactly is personal hotspot and how does it work? I have Sprint's
unlimited everything plan, is that unlimited as well?
Sent from my iPhone
> On Jan 8, 2016, at 4:52 PM, Phil Halton wrote:
>
> I am seriously considering cutting cable Internet, and using personal hotspot
> on my iPhone f
Mary, I think you’re right. There is a plan that’s $80 for an unlimited line
but I think the two line special might have been discontinued. My T-Mobile guy
set it up and I think he may have set it up creatively.:)
> On Jan 9, 2016, at 7:36 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
>
> Hi Scott,
> Wasn't that
Hi Scott,
Wasn't that T-Mobile unlimited lines a special deal that they offered last
spring? When we switched this fall, it wasn't available. And I think I looked
at it and saw that it was a limited time offer last spring perhaps into summer.
If it's back again, I'd love to switch.
Mary
Sent f
Good suggestion although mobile broadband in the US is much faster than DSL.
Most DSL is provided by the big incumbent carriers and at speeds like 1.5 or 6
megabits down and 768K or even 384K up. LTE over here gets you 15 down and 5
up pretty consistently and believe it or not I’ve bursted ove
AT&T is your least cost effective option these days. They also throttle
heavily and do lots of manipulation of the data stream. All carriers do this
to some degree or another on the wireless side to be clear but AT&T is known
for being heavy handed.
> On Jan 8, 2016, at 8:45 PM, Phil Halton
So that works just fine on T-Mobile. I have a plan that’s $100 per month for 2
lines and each line is unlimited. Doesn’t matter if you stream 5 gb or 50.
Might be worth checking out for you so the usage isn’t a problem.
> On Jan 8, 2016, at 8:40 PM, Phil Halton wrote:
>
> Well, I tried a l
This is all well said and probably better than I’d word it.
All I would add is definitely go with ah hardware hotspot solution. The iPhone
options are painful, full of disconnects, under powered and in general more of
a temp solution and not a permanent way of operating. I’d suggest the ZTE
h
What about DSL? If it’s the principle and the caps are all that’s in the way
of going totally mobile, you won’t mind the reduced speeds of DSL. You could
then also go with a business package that gave you better contention, and not
be treated like dirt on cable with many of the throttles that
My carrier is AT&T, but you know, I think I'm just going to bite the bullet and
pay the Comcast price for cable connectivity to the Internet. I just don't have
the time interest or inclination to do a lot of configuring of equipment.
Sent from my IPhone
> On Jan 8, 2016, at 8:40 PM, Bill Dengl
Why not purchase an Asus router and set up a NAS or use a USB hard drive? Asus
routers support mobile broadband modems out of the box. You will have to do
some reconfiguring in the firmware to make it work, but it will be much better
than trying to use the phone as a hotspot because it does not
Well, I tried a little experiment and set up the personal hotspot, logged in
with the Apple TV and then stream TV show on Netflix. That works fine, I
watched a 50 minute TV show without problems. Then I connected my mac to the
Wi-Fi hotspot and tried to stream a video on Safari via flash. That w
I can’t offer any opinion on the performance of the networks you’re on,
although it certainly sounds like the US has a pretty rough time of it when it
comes to fixed-line broadband competition. However, I can definitely say that
using mobile broadband as your primary Internet connectivity, whil
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