Comments on: Verizon to allow tethering, sort of

By: Scotty

Scotty — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:10:10 +0000

I’ve been “abusing” my e815 via Bluetooth tethering and I’ve got to tell you, I think Verizon made the right call. Motorola’s bluetooth stack is not very reliable. I found myself yanking the battery out of the phone daily to keep the bluetooth working with my LE1600. One would also need to press the end key on the phone every so often to allow reconnects (when the end key doesn’t work, you get to yank the battery). USB tethering is stable.

In addition, via USB I’ve gotten 1Mbps. No way can you do 1Mbps over bluetooth 1.2 since it tops out at 721Kbps (raw, one must add overhead to that for encapsulating the IP in it).

Best I’ve seen via Bluetooth is around 500Kbps, and that with the same phone, in the same place, where I can get 1Mbps via USB.

But of course people are free to think of them as a big evil corporate giant. But I don’t think they wanted all the support calls.

By: Roger McIntosh

Roger McIntosh — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 20:17:25 +0000

All posts that I have seen on this refer to the PCMag item, but that does not provide a link to Verizon and there is no mention on the Verizon site (that I could find).
What was the original source?

By: bkbroil

bkbroil — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:50:29 +0000

I have a Verizon Blackberry 7250 that allows me to connect to the EVDO network through a cable (unlimited data and voice through work). It would be excellent if I could use the Bluetooth capability of the Blackberry to connect to my Ipaq hx4700… I’ve been scouring Howard’s Forums to see if anyone has been able to do this. Have you heard anything?

By: Verison Cell Phones

Verison Cell Phones — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 09:53:34 +0000

By: Verizon Cell Phone

Verizon Cell Phone — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 09:53:34 +0000