Will t mobile charge me for tethering?

[WULFSTAN]

Like the title says really am on unlimited data thanks.
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[andy_uk]

I would think that tethering on an unlimited data contract will be banned in the small print somewhere...
Which package/tariff are you on?
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[Paulington]

Hey Wulfstan.

If you check the T&Cs of almost all unlimited data contracts (in my experience) it specifically says "Does not include data usage during tethering" and as such you will get charged for it.

My suggestion? Either check their website or, better yet, call T Mobile and ask them that specific question as they will answer better than any of us.

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[Jayy]

I was with T-mobile for 2 years and never got charged for it. My brother is with Giff Gaff an never gets charged either.

[Aff]

They don't know if you're tethering or not. All they will do is throttle your speeds if you start using crazy amounts of data each month.
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[Pete.]

[Aff]

I know iPhones use a separate APN for tethering, but as far as I know Android phones don't direct tethered data any differently from normal phone data. So they would have to be specifically looking, which I doubt they would do unless you had massive data usage.
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[Pete.]

Maybe but if you hit their trigger-level for taking a look you're gonna get a bill. My daughter put 8GB through her phone on a tether one month - you don't want to be paying for that if you get caught.
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[Redoko]

Ask them. No one here can you tell you.

Check your contract.
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[Speed]

I tethered my phone with my pc when I was on T mobile. Their ‘unlimited’ internet wasn’t ‘unlimited’. They have a fair usage policy which, on a phone you will rarely get anywhere near but tethered to a pc and browsing the internet/downloading etc uses up a lot. I would find that after a few days of internet access TMobile would let me know that i'd reached the given limit and, although it would let me view websites etc, watching videos on youtube etc would stop…only until the start of a new month when it would reset.

[prawny1]

I'm not sure how it works for phones but my tmobile pay&go dongle is serving three pc's a laptop an xbox and several phones without being charged extra.

I just get throttled after exceeding my 1gb per month fair use limit (goes within a few hours of renewel each month), and get an occasional redirect to the you've exceeded your fair use page.

I am upto around 70gb data in about 2 1/2 months with a 1gb fair use for £30/3 months.

I use a standard belkin54g router at the moment to share the dongle (E3131) connection using a network bridge, I am waiting for a dedicated wifi/mifi typr router to come from hong kong so that I can fit it upto a solar charger/battery bank, that way I wont have to leave my main pc powered up all the time.
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[prawny1]

[nop]

When you 'tether' (fuck, that is a retarded term) you are simply using the 'phone' as a modem.

The phone has a modem in it. When you use the net on the phone, the phone 'dials' the modem. When your computer uses the net, it also dials the modem.

They both dial in exactly the same way. There is literally no way they can say for certainty that you are 'tethering'. (ok perhaps useragent detection but that would be really tenuous)
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[prawny1]

Not relevent i know but I Tried today to set up my grandfathers zte dongle from 3 as a shared internet access point but the "add to bridge" option was not available, I guess it is because his is recognised as a dial up modem but mine is recognised as a "Remote NDIS based Internet Sharing Device"

I had to set the sharing option to allow other computers on a network to connect through the dial up dongle (i did not need to do this with the e3131), then set the ethernet to bridged and set both dongle and bridged network connection to the same type I used public would work if both set to home/work too I should imagine (not had the need to delve into setting up networks as I generaly keep pc's seperate and still don't realy know anything about setting them up properly).

connection centre says I am connected to multiple networks set up this way and shows the ethernet to router connection(from pc to input on router not output) as unidentified network with no internet access but all the computers logged into the router are able to connect to the internet anyway?
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