Originally Posted by danalo1979

2 things...

2.0.7 works much better

And

Verizon is tracking all mac addresses with none paid tethering activity that are using wifi tether and barnacle. They will throttle you down and charge the data back to you on your bill. Fyi

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Can you elaborate why you think 2.0.7 works better? On the Charge 2.0.7 seems to only support ad-hoc tethering.

The reason I went down this path is not for tethering per-se but just to be able to create a WPA network between my phone and laptop. Ad-hoc networking only supports WEP.

I wonder how verizon is conducting the monitoring? Are they just looking for your wifi adapter going into master mode? Or actually looking for evidence of tethering (i.e. iptables, dnsmasq)?

Originally Posted by nitsuj17

ok, then more to the point, has anyone actually had their data throttled or received charges on their bill?

Throttle, yes. BIG TIME. Billed for it? Not at all.

Originally Posted by eacmen

Can you elaborate why you think 2.0.7 works better? On the Charge 2.0.7 seems to only support ad-hoc tethering.

The reason I went down this path is not for tethering per-se but just to be able to create a WPA network between my phone and laptop. Ad-hoc networking only supports WEP.

I wonder how verizon is conducting the monitoring? Are they just looking for your wifi adapter going into master mode? Or actually looking for evidence of tethering (i.e. iptables, dnsmasq)?

And I would like to know this too. I work for Verizon but I'm just in sales.

Originally Posted by AnalyzeFaith

And I would like to know this too. I work for Verizon but I'm just in sales.

i found on some forum a while back that on GB tethering in logged in a database. the uid is 0 and the only thing that connects to the net using root(0) as the uid is a tethering app. i'd have to find that thread again and i'm not sure how far they got in that.

just found it: http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/gi...-recorded.html

Originally Posted by danalo1979

2 things...

2.0.7 works much better

And

Verizon is tracking all mac addresses with none paid tethering activity that are using wifi tether and barnacle. They will throttle you down and charge the data back to you on your bill. Fyi

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I doubt this. It is highly unlikely the tethering app rebroadcasts PHY-layer information. Far more likely is it retransmits L7 information. It is acting as a router, after all.



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Originally Posted by AnalyzeFaith

And I would like to know this too. I work for Verizon but I'm just in sales.

I will just say what's in the public realm. Try somewhere like dslreports and see what people are saying. There are a lot of posts from people that sound like they are absolutely sure it's sandvine.

If that is true, and you know what they are capable of, you know that it's not anything "on the phone".

Thanks for this, was wondering what I had to do to get it running in infrastructure.

If Verizon slows me down or tries to charge me for tethering, I'm just going to sell the phone and pay the ETF. I got the phone new for REALLY cheap, so I could probably make enough from it to not only pay the ETF and cover the cost of the phone, but come out on top by 20 bucks or so.

i know that on my iphone which im usuing for sh*** and giggles, i have a hack that makes apn adjustments that mask the tethered usage so Verizon cant tell that im using the phone to tether. to them it just looks like normal browsing. is there not an adjustment like that for android?

i for one have been tether for free on my droids for years and never had any issues. but on the flip side i never used more than 5gb tethering either....

Originally Posted by sydewayz

i know that on my iphone which im usuing for sh*** and giggles, i have a hack that makes apn adjustments that mask the tethered usage so Verizon cant tell that im using the phone to tether. to them it just looks like normal browsing. is there not an adjustment like that for android?

i for one have been tether for free on my droids for years and never had any issues. but on the flip side i never used more than 5gb tethering either....

I would like to know this as well! :P

I recently updated from 2.0.1 which was reasonably reliable on my Charge to 3.1 beta6 and have had no issues. Connecting via the setup as described in this post and connecting via infrastructure with WPA2 encryption. Can't beat it.