Talk:Tethering

Untitled early comments
Notebook computers, laptop computers are non mobile devices?? -- 81.217.87.210 (talk) 07:24, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

May be is useful specify that is a apple/iphone jargon... basically never used before the birth of iphone .. 88.149.245.237 (talk) 13:45, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

I'd vote for deletion and redirection. GSM/GPRS dialup was already common enough in parts of Africa in 2002. "Tethering" is just a misleading marketing neologism. Redirect to Mobile broadband or Mobile modem. - Gnomeza (talk) 15:00, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Examples Section
Please help expand this article with overviews of how tethering works on various technologies. I've started with a bit on the Windows Mobile process. Jaruzel (talk) 13:12, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

This seems to be a US/Apple thing? I have used mobile phones as modems since GSM became available in 94/95. And doing so is part of the meaning of the mobile devices and services. In Europe this is not a problem but something encouraged by at least Norwegian operators. To me it sounds a bit like Coca Cola enforcing drinking Coke of a can, and forbidding using a straw. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.26.67.185 (talk) 21:35, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
 * certainly, it's essentially a marketing concept, rather than an especially technical one, to define a usage for which you are expected to pay more. I daresay it did originate in the US where the data networks are crap, and the providers a lot more parsimonious. But it is now (2009) creeping into the vocab of UK data "plans" and associated T+C documents. Matt Whyndham (talk) 10:50, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

iPhone 3.0 v. 3.1
As of today (9/13/09), it's very easy for me to tether my MacBook to my iPhone G3 for internet access. I'm reading stories all over the internet about how the update to 3.1 will kill such tethering. Beware, for now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 32.166.74.2 (talk) 11:59, 13 September 2009 (UTC)


 * http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2010/02/23/tethering-is-exhilarating/ 203.129.33.32 (talk) 02:56, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Digital photography
Tethering is actually also the name of a technique where a digital camera is connected to a computer, and as shots are taken with the digital camera they are transferred to the computer for immediate evaluation and editing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.10.53.80 (talk) 19:40, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Tethering means connecting one device to another, with the purpose of accessing functionality on one device from another, as opposed to just sharing Internet connection. I amended the introduction to reflect this. Shierro (talk) 19:03, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

What's Going On ?
Can someone explain why this article after expanding into a nice useful bit of information, has now been cut down to semi-useless two paragraph bit of fluff ? I intend to revert it back to a composition of it's best parts unless someone can give me a firm reason not to ? Jaruzel (talk) 09:15, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

I've re-done some paragraphs, hopefully in a neutral point-of-view (users of devices vs network operators), to highlight that it's a contractual issue with regard to the fact that tethering may increase cellular data usage to levels that the network did not anticipate, and that may have a negative effect on network throughput. If the user is known to the network as a paying user of high data levels, it shouldn't cause technical difficulties. --Welshie (talk) 00:42, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Removed paragraph
I removed the following paragraph, as it reads like one person's personal experience with wireless tethering on a specific phone: "Wireless Tethering may damage phone, however using wireless tethering on mobile, mobile gets hot and might get some internal damage. (Especially on the mobile phones such as: HTC G1) It will affect on the camera and melts the wire of internal placed scheme." If anybody wants to generalise this to more than one phone, and can cite a good source, then feel free to re-add it. --Michael Billington (talk) 08:21, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

See also section
I found this section useful. It was removed by an anon IP.

Historical context
Why is there no mention of tethering via usb or BT DUN? Both have been core functions of OSes such as Symbian and Windows Mobile for over a decade. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.175.129.238 (talk) 13:50, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

'In carriers' contracts' describes only part of the truth
As described at http://pro-mobile-internet.net/, americans have taken control over GSM around 2000, against weak europeans who developped the system. GSM was intended as a (global) mobile extension for ISDN, thus a professional subsystem. As a consequence of the restrictive terminal and network policy originating with the anglo-autistic fools of the USA and obediently emulated by everyone else (Hollywood hypnosis), it is today only a shadow of its former self.

Examples are the forced replacement of pro mobile phones connected to an EXTERNAL ANTENNA (fx http://www.oebl.de/D-Netz/Geraete/Siemens/P1/P1.html, http://www.oebl.de/D-Netz/Geraete/Siemens/S3/S3.JPG [these aren't present-day terminals, I want to facilitate the understanding of the principle for the ignorant 'smartphone' generation]) through silly 'smartphones' glued to the windshield, while gradually phasing out antennas. There are more examples on the website.

Common characteristic: Ask competent agencies for the reasons of these changes, like the EU or your national networks govt agency, and they mess around with you while making understand that you won't receive a reply on the matter.

Back to 'laptop via mobile phone (aka tethering)': In countries espacially slavish with regard to disgusting american interventionism, I keep on making the experience that, when opening a data connection, I am 'permitted' to download the 1st page. Then the networks apparently realises it is a laptop, not a 'smartphone', and nothing else comes. The 'good reasons' mentioned in the article do not play a part. It is just classic american know-it-all and mentally dependent vassal countries.

In other words: We're apparently having a case of massive government abuse, coordinated all around the globe, and once again staged by America. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.180.66.187 (talk) 08:48, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

USB
What's USB 106.79.97.151 (talk) 15:04, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

Tetherorg Paragraph removal?
I noticed that the dates used in the last paragraph aren't properly formatted, and the paragraph itself doesn't add much to the article.

should be replaced with

COVID hasn't changed how we write dates, and AD doesn't make sense to append to 2023, considering no telecommunications existed pre-CE.

The rest of the paragraph is rather vague and links to a Wikipedia page (though it seems written like an inline web link) that doesn't exist, so there's really not much explanation as to what "tetherorg" is.

2600:1700:6910:E890:1C16:C401:B018:BA76 (talk) 21:11, 8 April 2023 (UTC)