Originally Posted by Philip Wales:
“Some Networks you can pay for "tethering" I think T-Mobile wanted £5.00 a month, I told them where to go... not paying for something I'm already paying for in my monthly fee.”
But you're not.
You're paying for data on your phone. As soon as you allow tethering you can connect a load of device and data usage can potentially shoot WAAAAAAY up.
Can't say I like the policy, but I can toally see why they do it.
What I can't work out is how they detect you're doing it.
I have a Lumia 920 running WP8. My phone provider thought I had a Galaxy Note (I used to, swapped to the 920 months back). I tethered the 920 to a Note 10.1 and an iPad Mini. It worked fine for 20-30 minutes or so before flashing up a message along the lines of "You don't pay for tethering in your plan so you shouldn't be doing it. Bad customer! Your connection will be disabled until you reboot your phone.". At which point I did indeed have to re-boot my phone.
As I say, no idea how they detect it. I have all you can eat data, but not tethering. They thought I should have been using an Android device so it can't be device specific signatures cos I've been using a WP8 phone for months.
Originally Posted by grumpyoldbat:
“If your phone is SIM free there is no reason you should be stopped from tethering.”
Yes there is ..... if your contract doesn't include it! See above. SIM free makes no difference. My phones are SIM free. They can still detect it and stop your connection. You'll hear plenty folk saying "But mine works OK?". And maybe it does ... if you just test it quickly. Mine did. But they clicked after a little while and bye bye data connection (temporarily).
Anyhoo .... getting back on topic .... although I have a Note 10.1 myself, I wouldn't recommend it if you want to use the tablet for any serious photography usage. Sure, it would look OK, but it'd look better on a Nexus 10 or an iPad with retina display. Or any other tablet with higher resolution screen really. The Nook HD+ someone mentioned is worth a look. Maybe even the Archos Titanium 97 ....