Using a cell phone as a wifi router
I just discovered that you can pay a monthly fee and some of the newer cell phones will act as a wifi receiver/router. As long as you have cell phone coverage you can get internet. Does anyone do th...
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It is not illegal and never has been illegal to use a tethering app such as PDANET, regardless of if you have/had an unlimited plan or capped plan. You cannot get into trouble with the law, no tickets, no probation, no jail time.
What Verizon COULD do is rip up your contract and kick you out. They might also try charging you more money.
Though I have never ever heard of any person ever getting the boot. I have heard of VZW sending out a text message warning. But even that was second hand heresay.
I have been using either PDANET or a rooted app for wifi hotspot on my phones for 4 years or so. My phone is my only source of Internet and I use ~20GB of data a month. I am unlimited plan.
Also, I can use BOTH voice calling and the phones wifi hotspot at the same time.
My hotspot is secure. Though if somebody really really wanted to hop on my hotspot, it wouldn't be real hard to figure out my password. But my phone give a notification sound when another device connects to it. So I know the exact second before you actually get to use my data.
Verizon, as part of the FCC deal, also cannot throttle any 4G service either. Even unlimited plans. They still can throttle 3G service if you are among the top 5% data usage per tower. Now if you are using that much data, I highly doubt you would be on 3G service yet. You would have to be an extremely patient person.
Anyway, unless you need the 20GB plan from millenicon, there is nothing wrong with using your phone as a hotspot. If your phone data doesn't get service, neither will a verizon Mifi.
What Verizon COULD do is rip up your contract and kick you out. They might also try charging you more money.
Though I have never ever heard of any person ever getting the boot. I have heard of VZW sending out a text message warning. But even that was second hand heresay.
I have been using either PDANET or a rooted app for wifi hotspot on my phones for 4 years or so. My phone is my only source of Internet and I use ~20GB of data a month. I am unlimited plan.
Also, I can use BOTH voice calling and the phones wifi hotspot at the same time.
My hotspot is secure. Though if somebody really really wanted to hop on my hotspot, it wouldn't be real hard to figure out my password. But my phone give a notification sound when another device connects to it. So I know the exact second before you actually get to use my data.
Verizon, as part of the FCC deal, also cannot throttle any 4G service either. Even unlimited plans. They still can throttle 3G service if you are among the top 5% data usage per tower. Now if you are using that much data, I highly doubt you would be on 3G service yet. You would have to be an extremely patient person.
Anyway, unless you need the 20GB plan from millenicon, there is nothing wrong with using your phone as a hotspot. If your phone data doesn't get service, neither will a verizon Mifi.
