Our broadband has been down since Saturday. The earliest BT can get to it is tomorrow.
BT "Is that ok?",
"Do I have a choice?" ...
.. and if the fault is on our premises that will cost us £130.
My hunch is it might be something to do with the water mains being renewed down our road where every connection they make passes under the telephone lines.
Regardless I write this now using an iPhone tethered to the mac and it works surprisingly well on 3G.
I checked with O2 first and it seems I missed out on the news that they now include tethering as part of their phone package as of March this year. I had to upgrade our contract with them - at a cost of around 80p per handset. So no brainer there.
When my 500MB allowance runs out I will be back in the dark ages. I might just steal my wife's phone instead.
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I can only comment on Vodafone, but tethering is standard and not a chargeable extra when using an Android phone. But it is chargeable (or was) with the iPhone.
I think it should always be included as data usage is paid for.
When I moved into this house last year, I used Vodafone 3G via a USB dongle for a few weeks until I got BT broadband installed.
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I was cleaning up a virus ridden laptop for a friend, wanted to update various programmes without connecting it to my network, so used my HTC Wildfire in WiFi hotspot mode, worked fine, but I used my meagre 250MB inclusive data allowance in an afternoon.
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If you have any smart phone and 3G web allowance, with appropriate app installed in the phone, you can always turn it into a wifi hotspot.
My iPad is wifi only. So when I'm out I connect to web via my phone's 3G web.
This also begs the question, why people buy 3G iPad. Most of them will have a smart phone too which can easily work as wifi hotspot.
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O2 data Tethering - rtj70
