How legit is the AT&T tethering workaround?

[GreenLightJerky]

Originally Posted by BradM73

I heard that it messed up SMS and Visual Voicemail. Is that true?

My 2 coworkers had no issues with SMS or Visual Voicemail.

EDIT: I scoured my 4000 entry bill from June and I finally found wap.cingular on the details page. I informed my coworkers that they really should have nothing to worry about.

[touchyphone]

Originally Posted by GreenLightJerky

My 2 coworkers had no issues with SMS or Visual Voicemail.

EDIT: I scoured my 4000 entry bill from June and I finally found wap.cingular on the details page. I informed my coworkers that they really should have nothing to worry about.

Yeah there is no need to worry. So long as youre not downloading major files or like watching Hulu 24/7 and keep it to some wuick access if need be then you should be fine.

And no, the ben.at hack worked flawless for me, MMS and VVM went down for people who were messing around trying to get MMS too, not just tethering. Dont believe everything you read

[PSM]

I am using the hack because risking paying per KB might be preferable to waiting for AT&T to get their crap together with an official plan.

I do, however, have concerns about it. PDANet uses a totally different method to tether, which AT&T shouldn't be looking for unless they notice excessive usage.

The current hack uses (AFAIK) the exact same method that AT&T will use when they do offer tethering. It's basically the official AT&T tethering plan turned on early, isn't it? Once the plan goes live, they have to have a way to know when you're tethering. So I find it hard to believe that there's not some flag that gets sent when you tether this way.

That being said, I have looked at my bill and so far see no unusual charges or notations, but I won't relax until the first month's bill starts coming in for people since 3.0 has come out.

Off the subject of charges, the way it works is really amazing. Best tethering ever. I can't wait to get it legitimately so I can stop worrying about it completely. It's really just plug-and-play.

[touchyphone]

Originally Posted by PSM

That being said, I have looked at my bill and so far see no unusual charges or notations, but I won't relax until the first month's bill starts coming in for people since 3.0 has come out.

Off the subject of charges, the way it works is really amazing. Best tethering ever. I can't wait to get it legitimately so I can stop worrying about it completely. It's really just plug-and-play.

Got my bill for this month, which includes dates I added the tethering profile to me phone. Same amount as always, no changes, charges, nothing. I think people need to chill out just a tad. This seems like such a silly thing to worry about. AT&T has millions of customers, yet theyre going to find the .5% of their iphone customers and other cell customers who have this hack? Really? Really? Seriously people have no worries.

[Libuff]

took the dive, and installed the custom profile form benm.at --- i get this message when i try to setup tethering... its been uninstalled...
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as an aside, does it matter that i have my developer profile also installed on the phone?

[touchyphone]

Originally Posted by Libuff

took the dive, and installed the custom profile form benm.at --- i get this message when i try to setup tethering... its been uninstalled...
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as an aside, does it matter that i have my developer profile also installed on the phone?

LOL everyone gets that message at some point, nothing is disabled or uninstalled. Just restart the phone, or go back in and tether. Again, stop worrying people.

[traylorc]

That's right folks...stop worrying. Just keep stealing from ATT, after all they deserve it for not having tethering available the moment the 3Gs was launched. Heck, only .5% of all iphone customers are illegally accessing the tethering functionality. So that must make it ok....right?

[Stratus41298]

Originally Posted by traylorc

That's right folks...stop worrying. Just keep stealing from ATT, after all they deserve it for not having tethering available the moment the 3Gs was launched. Heck, only .5% of all iphone customers are illegally accessing the tethering functionality. So that must make it ok....right?

That's not really the point. The point is that we are paying for the right to access the internet. How we access the internet is not apple or AT&T's concern as long as we are accessing it through the iphone. Tethering by definition means using your phone as a modem/gateway to get to the internet through another computer. The internet is still accessed through the iphone. Just because I want to look at the internet on a bigger screen does not give them the right to charge me what could be as much as $55 to do so.

Where is the FCC in all of this? They like telling us what we can't do but seem to drop the ball on telling these companies what THEY can't do.