Jailbreak: Get Your Computer Online Using Your iPhone's Data Connection

Re:Jailbreak: Get Your Computer Online Using Your iPhone's D... by wallflower on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @11:36AM (#253345)

From MacRumors discussion:

"Unlimited" means "around 5GB or so". Multiple months of ~5GB transfer will result in nasty phone calls, them looking deeper in to your account, or both.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=527722&page...

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Re:Jailbreak: Get Your Computer Online Using Your iPhone's D... by fallentimes on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @12:08PM (#253368)

Then the snake oil salesmen shouldn't advertise "unlimited".

And if you have an emergency, who cares if you get nasty phone calls? This is a great budget emergency solution.

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Re:Jailbreak: Get Your Computer Online Using Your iPhone's D... by silencio on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @01:07PM (#253435)

I assume it's more unlimited on your phone where realistically most people wouldn't be going over that kind of limit often. Non-mobile browsing for me usually means regular sites (vs. mobile/iPhone optimized) and longer browsing, resulting in more usage. Sure, AT&T will have a hard time being able to tell what you're doing, but it's against their TOS to tether without the right plan.

(Not that I disagree with you, just pointing out why this is an issue...AT&T can and has charged people who've tethered without the right plan for the data they used..and it's not pretty.)

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Re:Jailbreak: Get Your Computer Online Using Your iPhone's D... by trezor on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @03:31PM (#253558)

And if you have an emergency, who cares if you get nasty phone calls? This is a great budget emergency solution.

iPhone with a rip-off data-plan and budget solution in the same sentence? Steve Jobs' RDF is indeed strong with this crowd.

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Re:Jailbreak: Get Your Computer Online Using Your iPhone's D... by fallentimes on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @04:01PM (#253584)

uh yeah with the word _Emergency_. RDF? - I don't even own a Mac or an iPhone. I would have made the same comment if "iPhone" was replaced with any other phone.

Obviously, I would highly recommend having a better backup solution in place, but if shit hits the fan and you have to connect to computer A to remote location server B, this seems like an OK option. Do you have any other ideas? Please share - can't have too many backup plans :).

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Re:Jailbreak: Get Your Computer Online Using Your iPhone's D... by immad on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @02:47PM (#253517)

So as long as you use it reasonably it should be fine. As a primary Internet connection would be unreasonable

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Re:Jailbreak: Get Your Computer Online Using Your iPhone's D... by akd on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @08:23PM (#253832)

Why shouldn't unlimited mean unlimited? For six months my only Internet connection was through my Blackberry. T-Mobile is very good about not restricting what you can do with your phone, and not complaining when you do things like this.

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Re:Jailbreak: Get Your Computer Online Using Your iPhone's D... by timr on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @08:51PM (#253856)

You're being pedantic. It's quite obvious that they mean unlimited on a 3G cellphone modem, which has a fundamentally limited throughput.

Seriously...this is like debating with the people who think it's okay to bring Tupperware to an all-you-can-eat buffet.

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Re:Jailbreak: Get Your Computer Online Using Your iPhone's D... by chengmi on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @01:20AM (#254089)

this is like debating with the people who think it's okay to bring Tupperware to an all-you-can-eat buffet.

It's more like management kicking you out after they've felt you've had "all-you-can-eat".

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Re:Jailbreak: Get Your Computer Online Using Your iPhone's D... by immad on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @08:58PM (#253870)

Hmm. Well you are not allowed to tether the phone. So if they are not expecting users to do that it is reasonable to have a 5Gb limit since no one would break that.

Whether it is ethical to enforce a no-tether policy is a separate debate.

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