LOL. 25 paces? I'm tired.

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iPhone 3G ..:.. Jailbroken 16GB Black
AT&T 8925 Tilt ..:.. WM 6.1 ..:.. SIM/CID unlocked
BlackBerry 8830 on Sprint ..:.. crappy work phone

I'm still a little confused on the tethering plans for AT&T. I just got the Tilt and am looking for the right data plan for me (never had a data plan before) and was disappointed to see that AT&T almost doubles the price of the Max plan if you want to tether. I'd like to do it but don't need it enough to justify paying that much more. I think someone mentioned another app that allows you to tether under AT&T's "radar"?

So can you tether with just the max plan or are we stuck with paying for a tethering plan?

Thanks

If you're only tethering occasionally, don't sweat changing plans. Wait for them to catch you doing it. They are (rightfully) concerned with someone who's connected to a corporate VPN 16 hours a day and putting heavy volumes on the network. So if it's not consistent and high volume, you're almost certain to slide under the radar.

Does anyone know if you can tether the Pantech Duo like you can the Tilt? (Including the ability to access the app for tethering on the Pantech Duo via the file manager just as you can on the Tilt?)

Thx

OK, so I'm finally getting around to setting up using my phone as a modem. I installed the cab and i can run the program. Just want to make sure I know what I'm doing here.

When I start up the app. It offers USB and BT PAN. I'll probably use BT for the most part. So first question, do I need to be connected via BT through Active Sync for this to work?

Secondly it offers two network connections. One is MediaNet and the other AT&T ISP GPRS. Which of these two should I select?

Thanks in advance.

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Don S.

Don't connect via AS. Tell the phone to connect, then use the BT manager on your laptop/PC to join a PAN. That should set things up correctly.

If you ever do use USB, make sure that you disable USB connections in AS first, or tethering won't work.

And you probably always want to use MediaNet.

I'm guessing I'm missing something simple. I'm running the app on the phone. I have it running the BT Pan and connected to MediaNet. It let's me know the device needs to be discoverable and I allow that. I go to my PC (Vista based) and go to network connections. I tell it to view available BT PAN's but don't find any. I've confirmed that BT work between the two devices through AS a few minutes ago.

If it matters I notice there are no ports listed in the ports tab on the phone.

Suggestions?

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Don S.

Have you paired the phone to the laptop?

Yes, the phone had been paired. I blew away the BT pairing and basically started over. All sorts of weird things happened after doing that. I think I'm back to normal and I connected late last night through BT PAN. Didn't check to see if it was actually working as I was connected via Wi-fi on computer and was tired. I'll try it this evening perhaps by turning off the 802.11 and seeing if I can browse. Appreciate the help here.

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Don S.

The file is located under Windows on the tilt. It is called intShrUI. I have used it with USB. You just connect your handheld to your laptop let the activie sync finish. Once it is finished click on the that file on your handheld to kick it off.

If you're going to use Internet Sharing, you shouldn't be allowing WMDC or ActiveSync to connect. Go into the connection settings and uncheck the option to allow connections via USB. Otherwise, the phone/laptop are likely to get confused.