Wifi Hotspot available with T-Mobile plan on Nexus 7?

[howardv]

I'm waiting to receive my Nexus LTE (hopefully by Thursday). I'm just gonna sign up with T-mobile on their $30/month plan. Can I enable the Wifi Hotspot feature of the Nexus so I can occasionally use my laptop too when I'm on the road? Does T-Mobile allow this?

 

[YAYTech]

I would bet with root access you could do wifi tethering whether they want you to or not. I was able to turn it on on mine.

*edit* Oops, I was thinking I was in the Droid Maxx section for this. I don't have the LTE N7.

 

[howardv]

Thanks, but I don't want to root.

I currently have a Motorola Xoom activated with Verizon on their $30/month tablet plan and it allows it to act as a wifi hotspot without rooting. Wondering if T-Mobile is the same.

 

[patruns]

I'm waiting to receive my Nexus LTE (hopefully by Thursday). I'm just gonna sign up with T-mobile on their $30/month plan. Can I enable the Wifi Hotspot feature of the Nexus so I can occasionally use my laptop too when I'm on the road? Does T-Mobile allow this?

Are you referring to the 2.5GB plan?

 

[howardv]

Are you referring to the 2.5GB plan?

Yes.

 

[patruns]

Best to check with T-Mobile. They allow tethering on their post paid phone plans. I do not see any mention of tethering on their broadband plans on their website.

 

[bplewis24]

Well, I activated the SIM that came with my LTE Nexus 7, and my home internet happened to crap out. So I decided to see if tethering was available, and it was. I didn't have to activate anything, it just worked like it does on my Galaxy Nexus ROM.

My T-mobile SIM was activated with a 2GB, 1 month promotion. So it's a pre-paid plan promotion, and yet tethering still works. So take that for what it's worth.

 

[howardv]

Thanks! That's all I needed to know.

 

[arifjk]

Tethering will work without root and it is allowed by t-mobile. I did ask the t-mobile rep when I called to activate the SIM card. Somehow my SIM card took a while to activate so that's why I called in.

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[Thomassino Hook]

It's great to hear it is possible. Can you tell me if you use LTE connection and did you try some speedtest from notebook. I know it is a little different question than we started in this thread, but interesting ....
Thank you...

 

[howardv]

It's great to hear it is possible. Can you tell me if you use LTE connection and did you try some speedtest from notebook. I know it is a little different question than we started in this thread, but interesting ....
Thank you...

Sure! I have both an active Verizon and T-Mobile SIM, so I did the test with both. Loaded the Verizon SIM and turned on wifi hotspot. Connected my laptop computer and went to speedtest.net:
49ms ping
17.5 Mbps down
5.8 Mbps up

Turn off Nexus and change SIMs. Here are the T-Mobile results (LTE):
57ms ping
6.76 Mbps down
6.73 Mbps up

 

[ckphelan]

When you say that tethering was available and it just worked on your Nexus 7 lte...
Was that WiFi or USB tethering?
Was the tethering available from the nexus 7 settings or did you have to install foxfii/pdanet?
What did you tether to?

 

[howardv]

When you say that tethering was available and it just worked on your Nexus 7 lte...
Was that WiFi or USB tethering?
Was the tethering available from the nexus 7 settings or did you have to install foxfii/pdanet?
What did you tether to?

With both Verizon and T-Mobile, I tethered via wifi (you create a portable hotspot). This is all native to the Nexus 7, you don't need any apps. From the "Settings" menu, choose "more" under Wireless and Networks. The choose "Tethering and Hotspot" option. From this menu, you can choose your hotspot settings (e.g. encryption method), or choose to tether via bluetooth.

I tethered to my laptop computer. Meaning my laptop used the hotspot created by the Nexus to connect to the Internet.