jonathanm1978
Super-elite full-time dad
I'd like to find a user (out of Members: 901,701, Active Members: 243,505 here on Android Central) that uses tethering as their primary means of internet in their entire home...I personally have never seen anyone say they do this, and I find it hard to believe this could be feasible, or viable.
The main problem with insinuating/assuming this is that the ping time is nearly 1 second, which is nearly as bad as satellite internet.
More devices using a tethered connection, slower it gets..and less data gets through without errors...someone might try using it on one computer -- tablet -- laptop..but for a long-term solution to internet needs...no, I doubt it. Seems more likely that you're just saying that to make your argument sound better against people who tether.
You really should be arguing against developers who do the rooting, not the people who use the functionality that comes AFTER rooting. Your entire argument is against people using open-source OS..fully open-sourced. Tethering is part of ANDROID, not something Sprint, VZW, AT&T and T-mo invented...tethering was around for AGES before the providers decided they could use that to charge people a second time around for something they've paid for already.
I can show C&P from my AT&T DSL bill from months that I don't do PS3 gaming and only do surfing the net where I don't use but 4 to 5 gigs per month. That is inclusive of my cell phone being connected to Wifi, and the Airvana that gives me Sprint service.
I pay for the internet that provides the data that's broadcasted via my Airave (3G data speeds)..does that mean that since I already pay for it through AT&T that I shouldn't be charged for data on Sprint???
I'd really like for this guy to answer this one for me...I'd like to know his answer.
If I turn off WIFI and use ONLY 3G in my home, in range of the AIRAVE...that AIRAVE is plugged into my DSL (or actually, it's plugged into my Buffalo High-Power router)...so the internet connected is provided..and the Airave just broadcasts the data that it's provided via my DSL connection.
How can Sprint charge me a data fee if I never leave home and only use the Airave for my phone to connect to??? I'm not even on Sprint's tower...I'm on a femtocell tower..and that particular data is already paid for via my AT&T bill...
So please, enlighten me on that...how can Sprint do that when I never hit their tower (assuming I stay home from the 6th of this month until the 5th of next month)...??
Again, it's a bandwidth issue, and bandwidth doesn't cost the carriers (or AT&T, or Comcast, or any other ISP) hardly ANYTHING. Bandwidth is almost GIVEN away...
The main problem with insinuating/assuming this is that the ping time is nearly 1 second, which is nearly as bad as satellite internet.
More devices using a tethered connection, slower it gets..and less data gets through without errors...someone might try using it on one computer -- tablet -- laptop..but for a long-term solution to internet needs...no, I doubt it. Seems more likely that you're just saying that to make your argument sound better against people who tether.
You really should be arguing against developers who do the rooting, not the people who use the functionality that comes AFTER rooting. Your entire argument is against people using open-source OS..fully open-sourced. Tethering is part of ANDROID, not something Sprint, VZW, AT&T and T-mo invented...tethering was around for AGES before the providers decided they could use that to charge people a second time around for something they've paid for already.
I can show C&P from my AT&T DSL bill from months that I don't do PS3 gaming and only do surfing the net where I don't use but 4 to 5 gigs per month. That is inclusive of my cell phone being connected to Wifi, and the Airvana that gives me Sprint service.
I pay for the internet that provides the data that's broadcasted via my Airave (3G data speeds)..does that mean that since I already pay for it through AT&T that I shouldn't be charged for data on Sprint???
I'd really like for this guy to answer this one for me...I'd like to know his answer.
If I turn off WIFI and use ONLY 3G in my home, in range of the AIRAVE...that AIRAVE is plugged into my DSL (or actually, it's plugged into my Buffalo High-Power router)...so the internet connected is provided..and the Airave just broadcasts the data that it's provided via my DSL connection.
How can Sprint charge me a data fee if I never leave home and only use the Airave for my phone to connect to??? I'm not even on Sprint's tower...I'm on a femtocell tower..and that particular data is already paid for via my AT&T bill...
So please, enlighten me on that...how can Sprint do that when I never hit their tower (assuming I stay home from the 6th of this month until the 5th of next month)...??
Again, it's a bandwidth issue, and bandwidth doesn't cost the carriers (or AT&T, or Comcast, or any other ISP) hardly ANYTHING. Bandwidth is almost GIVEN away...