I am in more and more places where wifi is either secured or costs money. (looking to use my laptop)
I am taking a closer look at Tethering my ip4 to the laptop.
When I 'click' it on my ip. It says to call 611 or go to website
Website a little tough to navigate in ip so was wondering if anyone else is doing it
I am on $30 unlimited data.
iPhone WiFi
It's easier if you go to the Apps Store and download AT&T MyWireless Mobile.-----
If you move to tethering, you will HAVE to give up your unlimited data, move to the $25 2GB data plan and pay another $20 ($45 total) to have the ability to tether, sharing the 2GB total. I would look into a MiFi device unless you use very little data.
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We have 3 iPhones in this household with varying usage of cellular data. My wife never goes up to even near 200 MB/month. Our housemate streams music at work and runs about 1.9 GB/month. I run about 200-300 MB/month.
So tethering with AT&T would add $15/month for 2 GB max.
How much would buying and using a Mifi cost for 5 GB max?
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Depends on carrier, you can get it as low as $25-$40 a month through Clear, Virgin, or a couple other pre-paids that I can't remember the name, Verizon & Sprint are $59.99 for 5GB or $39.99 for 250MB (Sprint has unlimited 4G data in available cities).
There is one I posted about from Clear called the iSpot that is only for Apple products and has unlimited data for $25 a month (4G) with 3G fall over is $35 a month or they have one that works on all products for $35 a month for 5GB.
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Ugh. Not giving up my unlimited.
Ugh. The pressure
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Have you ever checked to see how much cellular data you actually use?
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I'm in the same position. I have unlimited on my iPhone and not giving it up.
I bought a Samsung Captivate and an extra line just for tethering. It was cheaper than committing to $60 a month for the air card and I got 2 GB with an extra 1 GB for $10 any time I went over. I asked them at the AT&T store if the Captivate would tether and they said it would. An AT&T rep just told me that there is no modem support by AT&T for the Captivate. I don't want to steal it and I don't want to void my warranty. The other option they gave me was an air card, which is $60 per month for 5 GB, but there's a two-year commitment unless I pay upfront for the air card (they said probably around $200). I might do that, but I want to know for sure that's going to work before I plunk down $200 for yet another device.
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I hope it is within the return window for the Captivate, most Android phones (including my Verizon Droid Incredible) allow tethering but require 2.1 and root access and Samsung has neither currently. AT&T has a wireless device that provides WiFi data just like the MiFi which if you pay for another line ($9.99), a Data Plan ($25) and Tethering option ($20) you would only end up saving about $5 if you only use 2GB, if you use 5GB it would end up being $30 more ($10 per GB over 2).
It might be a few years out (4G / LTE) but mobile data pricing has to catch up with broadband, we would never pay mobile rates for the speed / reliability and limits we pay for wireless. I pay $30 each for the two phones I carry, which are likely capped at 5GB although I have never been charged overages, so $60 total for say 10GB and the speed of DSL I had ~15 years ago and paid maybe $30/mo and never a cap. I know have FiOS and while it is discounted in my 'bundle' on the bill it shows I pay $30 for 15x the speed on either phone and transmit hundred of GB per month...
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Unfortunately, it wasn't within the return window because I had a lot of problems with the phone itself initially. After several calls to AT&T support, they DOA'd the Samsung and gave me a new one just like it, but after a couple of weeks, it was doing the same thing. I took it back, but the initial 30 days was up. Since I have to have a dependable phone, I upgraded my main line to an iPhone 4. I called Samsung to see if I could get my money back on the Captivate under the warranty. A technical support person there told me that it sounded like it was getting too hot and that I shouldn't use a case with it. Sure enough, when I removed the clear, open front case that I got for it at the AT&T store at the time of the phone purchase, I have never received that error message again.
I wanted to try Android before the contract was up on my 3G. The Captivate is a pretty phone with a beautiful screen, but no competition for the iPhone. I might check into prepaid for my laptop and sell the Captivate.
Don't really want to commit to $60/month for an air card I'll only use part of the time and can't use in some places. I agree the pricing is ridiculous.
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Settings > General > Usage.
I was surprised how little I use. OK, it's just casual stuff (looking stuff up in the pub, that sort of thing), but surprising all the same. Sent 148 MB, Received 358 MB, since I got the phone last July.
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I am a huge cell data user. Huge.
Unlimited is excellent for me
I am constantly searching sites. For business reasons to stay on top oft clients climate
Constant news searching as well (market).
I send a lot of videos of products.
This was off the top of my head.
I will take a better look at the bill. ( which I cn do from here). But no matter how it fluctuates I am very dubious about giving up my unlimited.
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Short of movies/podcasts, streaming radio/music/tv I don't see how anybody can use much data bandwidth, the screen is way too small for any practical surfing, especially anything requiring the keyboard function. I find even the simplest things requiring zooming in and 'flicking' the screen about to read anything. I also think its absurd to have to pay extra for tethering just to use the same data bandwidth I'm already paying for. Its also next to impossible to use when AT&T doesn't have usable signal.
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I use between 3-5GB per month over the past year on my iPhone according to the "Usage Chart" on from ATT.com and on my Verizon Droid, it uses quite a bit more data per month, minimum was 4GB and max was almost 7GB (no overage charges) but I have also used Droid to tether iPhone and iPad and download files that were over 20MB (blocked over 3G download by iPhone).
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Not giving it up either..cause once you do...you can't get it back...they willl need to pry i out of my cold dead hands [said in my best Charlton Heston voice...] :)
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