tethering

Backbone One’s Popular Gaming Controller Now Supports Android, but Barely

You'll need a Lightning cable if you want to use the Backbone One controller with an Android device.

T-Mobile Says It’ll Pay Off Your Phone If You Switch

If you're unhappy with your current carrier, but you still have a phone to pay off, T-Mobile will give you up to $1,000.

AT&T’s Priciest Unlimited Data Plan Is Now Actually Unlimited

You'll no longer be throttled for using your data.

T-Mobile Has the First Good 5G Plan With Truly Unlimited Data

Throttling is the not-so-secret way traditional “unlimited” cellular data plans keep you from tapping into all that data. T-Mobile’s new Magenta Max Plan, which is designed to maximize the potential of faster 5G speeds, is promising to make unlimited data truly unlimited for the first time in a long time. As part of an update…

The Complete Guide to Tethering From Your Phone or Tablet When You Don’t Have Wifi

Phone or tablet tethering can give you some precious internet connectivity when you’re out of wifi range, and in terms of connecting on the go, it’s much more secure than the public wifi you’ll find in hotels, coffee shops, and so on. Here’s how to do it, simply and painlessly, whether you’ve got Android or…

How to Not Waste Data When Using Your Phone as a Hotspot

If your device, your carrier, and your data plan allows it, you can turn your mobile phone into a Wi-Fi hotspot to get your laptop online. But just because it’s a hotspot doesn’t mean the rules of data uses don’t apply. You’ll still want to keep data usage down to a minimum. Here’s how you…

Google Glass seems to no longer require a tethering plan to share data with a smartphone—which, uh, saves a tiny proportion of the cost of the device as it stands. Great!

Get This iPhone App With Secret Tethering Powers While You Can

FlashArmyKnife in the iOS App Store has secret built-in powers that will allow you to tether you iPhone to a computer for no extra charge. The app costs $2, while using your iPhone’s data connection on a separate device would cost you a monthly fee. As we said before, the app’s tethering capabilities are secret…

Download This iPhone Tethering App Before It Gets Pulled from the App Store

If you want an iPhone tethering app, go download DiscoRecorder, a $2 ‘voice recorder’ app that 9to5Mac says comes with a hidden tethering feature. Yep, that means you can get your computer onto the Internet with your iPhone’s data connection. Sweet. The video above explains how to set up the tethered connection but basically you’re…

FCC Tells Verizon It Can’t Force You To Pay $20 For Tethering Anymore

The FCC and Verizon put an ongoing dispute to rest today when the carrier agreed to allow is customers to use tethering apps with its data plans. You’re damn right! Until now, Verizon worked with Google to block tethering apps from being downloaded to Android devices from Google Play. The company instead demanded that customers…

Download This iPhone Tethering App Before It Gets Pulled

Need an iPhone tethering app? For $2 (and likely a very limited time only), you can download QuasiDisk, a file viewing app that can also share a connection over a proxy. TheNextWeb says it takes a fair amount of tweaking to get it working, but it does work. [iTunes via TheNextWeb] Image via Preetam Rai

Tethering App Slips Into the iOS App Store (Updated)

File this one under “get it while you can”. An app that provides free USB tethering between your iPhone and your laptop has somehow made its way through Apple’s approval process and snuck into the App Store. Cue feeding frenzy. The app, called iTether by Tether, will allow you to share your phone’s data plan…

Sprint’s Capping Tethered Data on October 2nd (Updated)

Sprint’s about to make its first step to distance itself from unlimited data. Starting October 2nd, mobile hotspot customers will have a 5GB cap, with a 5 cent per MB charge after that. The cap only applies to Sprint’s $30/month mobile hotspot data plan, so your unlimited handset data is safe—for now. Still, it’s a…

Verizon Is Cracking Down on Jailbreak Tetherers

Starting today, tethering your Verizon iPhone using MyWi, or another Jailbreak app, will land you on a webpage prompting you to sign up for the official $20/month tethering package. As with all things iPhone, Verizon’s many months behind AT&T’s.[Forbes] https://gizmodo.com/at-t-tells-jailbroken-iphone-tetherers-to-pay-up-5783386

Verizon Unlimited Data Dies for Good July 7

Well we knew it was coming, but now we have a date: Verizon is moving to tiered data plans starting July 7th. The prices are $30/50/80 for 2GB/5GB/10GB plans, and bump up to $50/70/100 for 4GB/7GB/12GB for tethered plans. https://gizmodo.com/verizon-end-of-unlimited-data-plans-likely-coming-soon-5567119 The plans do not differentiate between 3G and 4G. Customers who currently have an unlimited…

Is Verizon Trying to Block Third-Party Tethering on LTE?

The advocacy group Free Press issued a complaint with the FCC yesterday, stating that Verizon is blocking tethering choices on their LTE phones. Verizon has remained cagey on the subject, but if that’s true sparks are gonna fly. Big Red isn’t alone in blocking third-party tethering apps for their phones, as the likes of AT&T…

The Jig Is Up for Android Tethering Apps

Bet you thought you were pretty slick there, using a tethering app to turn your Android phone into a mobile hot spot while sidestepping the additional carrier charges. What, you thought your carrier wouldn’t notice? Well, you’re not, they did, and now the free-mobile-hot-spot party is over. So far, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile have all…

AirLocation Lets the Wi-Fi iPad Really Use the iPhone’s GPS Signal

AirLocation in an app that sends your iPhone’s GPS signal to your Wi-Fi iPad. All you need to do is tether your iPad to your iPhone and flip on the AirLocation app on both devices. We’ve previously reported that the Wi-Fi iPad 2 gained GPS powers when tethered to an iPhone but we were wrong.…

AT&T Isn’t Letting Users Download BlackBerry Bridge, Here’s How to Get It (Updated)

For some silly reason, AT&T is not supporting BlackBerry Bridge—the lifeline of the BlackBerry PlayBook. Remember, in order for the PlayBook to access email, contacts, and calendars, it needs to be “bridged” to a BlackBerry via the BlackBerry Bridge app. Without access to BlackBerry Bridge, AT&T is effectively neutering the tablet for AT&T BlackBerry users.…

AT&T Tells Jailbroken iPhone Tetherers To Pay Up

You think you’re a real smooth criminal, don’t you, using the Cydia app MyWi to tether your jailbroken iPhone free of charge? Well, it looks like your joy ride might be over. AT&T has apparently been sending MyFi users texts telling them to pay up or fall back: AT&T Free Msg: Did you know tethering…