tethering with an unlimited plan

[shane96ranger]

I'm just trying to figure this guy out. This is a trailer park, right? And this satellite dish would mount on the side of said trailer, correct?

Does this landlord think that putting a dish on the side of a trailer is going to make it look tacky? Or does he think the satellite might scramble his eggs? Sounds like they are already scrambled to me......

 

[swynx]

I'm just trying to figure this guy out. This is a trailer park, right? And this satellite dish would mount on the side of said trailer, correct?

Does this landlord think that putting a dish on the side of a trailer is going to make it look tacky? Or does he think the satellite might scramble his eggs? Sounds like they are already scrambled to me......

yep its a trailor park. nicest one ive ever seen but its also full of retired people.

and the guy is like 80 and set in his ways i guess. not really sure what his deal is. any time he talks to you it ussualley involves bad news. do this do that.

 

[dangerranger83]

Sprints tethering is an extra $30 a month and from what i read, you get 300MB to play with.

My suggestion, find a good phone that can get the 4g and root it. I'm paying $187 a month for two phones on sprint. It's the 1500 plan they have. 1500 min of share talk between all the phones on the plan and unlimited text and data. I may use 30 min of talk a month.

I have a galaxy s2, works for what i need it to. It runs off 4g Wimax, not lte and one of the last to use Wimax.

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[swynx]

i know how to root. ive done it to friends phones. but im unsure of what benefits i would get from rooting my own phone? educate me plz?

 

[dangerranger83]

Rooting is a device hack that provides users with unrestricted access to the entire file system of their mobile devices. Rooting is useful for Android users if their wireless carrier imposes any additional restrictions on using the devices, such as preventing tethering.

It gives you administrator access to your device, like being the head person on a computer or when you go to run a program and run it as administrator, it allows you to.

It also enables you to be able to get rid of apps on the phone that the carrier puts on it. Helps free up space on your device.

You can also use the built in tether app but you will have to first root your phone then get Titanium backup from the market (paid version) and freeze (disables) the tether app that tells the company that your tethering, or if you really want to, delete it off the device. Im using a free app for mine instaed of doing the Titanium way.

But when you root your device, you arent able to update your phone software wise, such as over the air updates or even ones you do yourself, unless you unroot it. Currently my phone has an update and I have to unroot my phone, do the update, reroot and I am good, that is making sure that I can root the update and I can.

 

[swynx]

sounds like i should just root my phone then

 

[shane96ranger]

What phone/carrier do you have?

Sent from my Quad Core Acer A210

 

[killj0y]

Sprint has unlimited, just root and Rom it then enjoy.

 

[dangerranger83]

Don't even need to ROM it. I'm running my stock room on mine.

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[killj0y]

Don't even need to ROM it. I'm running my stock room on mine.

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True but sometimes you have to jump through hoops with apps and settings. Most roms even those based on the stock Rom will have it baked in. Just connect and enjoy.

 

[daniel3507]

What about using Open Garden? I dont know much about cell phones or anything like that but was also looking for a way to tether with Sprint. I am afraid to root because I dont want to brick my phone and found Open Garden. I havent used it yet though so I dont have experience with it but it sounds promising.

 

[daniel3507]

I went ahead and rooted my Sprint Galaxy S3 today and can now get wifi tether on Jelly Bean.