Tethering

[TW]Fox · 1 Mar 2013 at 19:15

muon said:
Virgin Media are now stopping tethering even if you are an old customer now.

Gone from having unlimited data including tethering, to 3.5GB FUP including tethering, to 3.5GB FUP not including tethering.

Another one bites the dust.

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5...ur-Acceptable-use-policy-for-Pay/td-p/1679688

I wonder when people who royally take the **** out of these services will realise the damage they cause to everyone else? They are writing to a select number of people I see - I dont even want to guess how much stuff they were downloading via Tethering, ruining it for everyone else.

muon · 1 Mar 2013 at 19:19

[TW]Fox;23858201 said:
I wonder when people who royally take the **** out of these services will realise the damage they cause to everyone else? They are writing to a select number of people I see - I dont even want to guess how much stuff they were downloading via Tethering, ruining it for everyone else.

Select number of people are people who use a lot according to their criteria. If they have 3.5GB as their FUP limit, then I don't think it'd be a stretch to that is what they are using.

I'd be surprised if they were solely targeting people who used a lot via tethering.

I'm expecting a letter as I use 5GB a month. I didn't mind the 3.5GB limit, but I need occasional tethering.

edit:

Ideally I want operators to start having sensible pricing on fixed amounts rather than this "unlimited" crap. EE tariffs have the right idea but they are a rip off atm due to the premium on LTE.

http://shop.ee.co.uk/priceplans/pay-monthly/4gee-sim-only/

If the 5GB tariff was more like £25 a month then it would be perfect.

[TW]Fox · 1 Mar 2013 at 19:45

Yea, I agree. I don't want 'unlimited', I want about 2-3gb tops with about 5% of that as tethering.

Beta · 1 Mar 2013 at 22:59

Vodafone allows you to tether on any of their plans. I suspect that their tariffs will be on the high side as usual though.

Fallen god · 1 Mar 2013 at 23:28

ShortWarning said:
I cannot tether (iPhone 4s, Ultimate Internet 600).

I think sims older than 12 months allow you to tether. Also, people are reporting that if they buy the tethering add on then cancel after a month it allows you to tether for ever more. It is also a lot easier to get around on Android.

I'm not saying some people won't get lucky but officially (on new contracts at least) it is only officially support on the one plan (it even tells you tethering is not supported on any other plans if you look up the t's and c's).

I have the same exact contract and it wouldn't let me tether on my SGS2 (I was using CM10 at the time). However it works perfectly fine with My Nexus 4. I think it blocks you randomly, as some users on this get it to work on even the SGS2 and others don't

Mind you I havn't used it for much, only when my WiFi drivers broke on Ubuntu and that took about 50mb or so.

I was with T-mobile before I switched to 3 and I could tether all I wanted to, a normally did 1-2GB a month tethering as I use to take my laptop out a lot on the train and so on.

[TW]Fox;23858371 said:
Yea, I agree. I don't want 'unlimited', I want about 2-3gb tops with about 5% of that as tethering.

I will always want unlimited as I never know what is going to happen, there was 1 month where I had no broadband due to a fault and I used tethering which ended up using 10GB of data that month, its not a crazy amount but its 2-3x more then I normally use and if I had a fixed cap I would have had to pay through the nose that month or not really consume any media.

[TW]Fox · 2 Mar 2013 at 10:01

Fallen god said:
I will always want unlimited as I never know what is going to happen, there was 1 month where I had no broadband due to a fault and I used tethering which ended up using 10GB of data that month

Thanks for contributing to the problem. People using mobile phones as home broadband replacememt instead of opting for the products specifically designed for this is pretty much exactly why we are now in this situation.

Fallen god · 2 Mar 2013 at 14:39

[TW]Fox;23860441 said:
Thanks for contributing to the problem. People using mobile phones as home broadband replacememt instead of opting for the products specifically designed for this is pretty much exactly why we are now in this situation.

Not having any other way to get online for 1 month isn't really the problem. And I only used 10gb, its hardly the end of the world. The people who actual cause the problem are those who use 100gb+, 3 actual welcome people to do it as well.

remy87 · 2 Mar 2013 at 15:09

250gb over 2 months kekekke. Barely used 3gb a month, after got my fibre. After I cancelled the tethering add on it stills works brilliantly. 3 is awesome.

RussD · 3 Mar 2013 at 00:31

Buy an Unlocked Mi-Fi and stick your sim in it or buy another sim just for the Mi-Fi.

AMDPower · 3 Mar 2013 at 02:12

reading this thread makes me think i just made a mistake

I just renewed my mobile broadband with t mobile, they gave me 3Gigs data allowance for £7.00 a month + the cost of the modem on their new 4G EE service, but don't like the fact of £3.00 per day if I go over my allowance. I also have a mobile contract with them for £7.50 for 300anytime minutes, blackberry and also a 250mb service sim only contract

I really wanted to get a more meatier phone contract which I could tether so combine both contracts into one single one, I can still cancel the mobile broadband, so anyone have any suggestions. Their rep told me no "Tethering" at all, so that put me.

This unlimited data allowance sound excellent, who is offering this service currently?

2 weeks ago I signed up for a T-Mobile (EE) 12 month contract - unlimited everything (voice, text and data) - for £9.50 a month.

Originally £32pm, down to £16pm, plus ~£75 cashback on topcashback = £9.50pm. I believe that deal was posted on here.

My girlfriend and I both signed up and are up and running now, nothing but good things to say - tethering is available on my iPhone and I've used it a couple of times (nothing big).

is it still possible to get this deal or was that a retentions only deal?

muon · 3 Mar 2013 at 02:16

No tethering on your mobile broadband contract? That's exactly what that is for.

As for tethering on mobile phone contracts, the numbers are slowly diminishing. Just Three are left now really.

Also you managed to get 3GB data on 4G for £6 a month? What modem are they giving you?

This unlimited data allowance sound excellent, who is offering this service currently?

is it still possible to get this deal or was that a retentions only deal?

edit: Misread it, that was quite a recent post. Tethering won't be officially allowed.

Probably was this

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/t-m...m-only-16-12th-13th-feb-only-cashback-1471188

megakid · 3 Mar 2013 at 12:34

AMDPower said:
is it still possible to get this deal or was that a retentions only deal?

I checked last night and it seems the contract has gone up to £21 a month and the cashback is only £60 now so £16 a month for 12 months for the same deal now. It wasn't retentions only, just a good deal.

The original thread was here: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18483243