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Make Lots Of Money For Real And Fast | Video Game Tester Job — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:48:36 +0000

[...] Tether your BlackBerry to your laptop [...]

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:50:20 +0000

but I repeat myself. I need to look at prior posts before pressing ’submit’

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:48:27 +0000

Agreed. I wasn’t trying to take an ethical stance. It’s more about knowledge of what you’re doing and the potential consequences than anything else.

I used a similar product for WinCE called PDAREACH when I was a Sprint customer a few years ago. I didn’t over use it and flew under the radar for 1-2 years. However that was Sprint. Verizon seems to be a lot more aggressive about squeezing every little bit of revenue that they can from their subscribers.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:32:36 +0000

@nate:
Violate the terms of your contract, go ahead. Doesn’t cause me any problem, but some folks might not understand that this violates their contract. Many might not be so cavalier about it nor wish to risk it.

Might you get away with it? Sure. I guess it’s up to the risk tolerance or aversion level of each person. But being a Verizon hater and having convinced YOURSELF that it’s okay to try “stiffing” them doesn’t make it okay for all nor mean anyone else needs to “get a life”.

By: nate

nate — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:35:15 +0000

Ed and DavidB need to get a life VZW and all the other carriers have been over pricing their service to comsumers for years, I think that once you open a contract, you sould be entitled to some free programs mind you, your already paying for enternet servces anyway.

By: ed

ed — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:30:40 +0000

Arms race? Yeah, I meant an arms race.. whatever.

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:48:49 +0000

You’d have to encrypt traffic or else they can sniff browser agent strings and know people are using laptops. You can build an encrypted tunnel and proxy but they would soon find the IPs of your proxies. You’d then have to randomize IPs and ports used but then they can measure how much non-port-443-ssl encrypted traffic they are seeing and block that. It could become an arms war.

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:42:52 +0000

It depends on the carrier. I used a similar app called PDAReach on Sprint for two years with no trouble but I did not abuse it. Greedy VZW won’t wait for abuse. they’ll figure out how this app works and filter the traffic.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:14:28 +0000

Gotta agree with ed, this has got to violate some contract term or condition.

While it would be cool to have free tethering, and if usage was light you’d probably fly under the radar, but no doubt some foolish idiot will soon have his laptop up and sucking down torrents watching sling/hulu/whatever and the carriers will either find a way to block it, will terminate customers, will sue these creators for creating something that bypasses their for pay service, or some combination thereof.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:46:58 +0000

I tried it, and while it’s easy to use, it’s slow. Tethering with a regular dial up networking connection I get 3Mb down, and with this software I was only getting 800k?????

By: ed

ed — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:40:14 +0000

I bet this violates the TOS for vzw and most other providers.

By: Bradley

Bradley — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:54:43 +0000

Still don’t get it. The FAQ states: How is your software different then normal tethering?
We do not have connection limits, no proxy settings, up to DSL speeds and works with almost every internet based piece of software without modification.

How do you not have connection limits when I’m still going through my carrier? Is it because you are not using the isp.cingular servers so they dont monitor the usage? (I assume you are going to BIS, BES or some other proxy?)

By: Pandu

Pandu — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:54:06 +0000

Is it possible to do with a desktop computer?

By: sal

sal — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:31:08 +0000

any idea on when the mac version will be out?

By: Xandrex

Xandrex — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:43:30 +0000

Bradley : you question is answered in the FAQ http://www.tetherberry.com/faqs

By: Bradley

Bradley — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:10:54 +0000

Why would you need this? My AT&T Bold tethers perfectly fine with my Thinkpad… Voice and data at the same time too!

By: John H

John H — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:50:42 +0000

The folks at VZW will just love this !!!!