Three Tethering

I know that it's not allowed, but...

Does anyone know from personal experience if Three's All You Can Eat contracts or PAYG can be tethered? I read from some that it can, others say not (but those people seem to have tried the sim in a dongle)

thanks

I believe it's only The One Plan that can be officially tethered.

Edited by deleted (Sat 14-Apr-12 15:40:17)

thanks, I knew that, yet still asked the question as I want a definitive answer, not an official one.

In reply to a post by Error:

I know that it's not allowed, but...

Does anyone know from personal experience if Three's All You Can Eat contracts or PAYG can be tethered? I read from some that it can, others say not (but those people seem to have tried the sim in a dongle)

thanks

No it cant tried this 2 days ago with a friends phone Samsung galaxy Ace) and when you try brows on the comp it redirects to three tether block page, Ended up putting my sim in his phone (im on the one plan which as said is the only plan with allowed tethering my phone was dead hence trying tethering on his phone to start with) so sorry defo answer is no

Ash

it depends on the phone if it get blocked or not (i been tethering on the all you can eat £15 not an issue, i am back to my T-mobile sim, 6 months for £20 but its still unlimited web use after the 500mb has been used up so that does me fine)

if your using some of the official Three phones they have two APN's one for phone use one for tethering use to block tethering unless you pay for it (the only other way is to detect it is based on usage do not think three and t-mobile bother with it)

my HTC desire (not s) and my Mobile 3G modem thats Built into my laptop i was never blocked from using the Three PAYG sim (guess thats tethering or using an norm payg sim with all you can eat bolt on in an device thats not an phone)

not that i recommend users to abuse it, as i just its for my job (light works, flash is disable by default unless i click on them)

Thanks. Might be worth blowing £15 on a PAYG sim just to check before I tell them to stuff their contract as it seems users have different experiences. I'm hoping to use a desire running a custom ROM, apparently the package I'm on now doesn't allow tethering, yet I've been doing it for over a year, on and off, with my 2Gb allowance.

the users who are having issue with tethering not allowed issues, are most likely Three ROM'ed phones or an iPhone (there will be 2 APN's on the phone one for mobile one for wifi/tethering)

If its an stock phone or not an Three locked phone (even if its unlocked from three its still an Three phone) tethering should not be an issue (iPhone you need to jail brake them as to change the second APN to be the same as the main one or use an app like PDAnet +jailbreak)

I had my Three PAYG all you can eat sim in my laptop i had no issue, but most likely they do not have that device IMEI number of that device to auto block it

I would use three just it hardly ever works in doors and results in more battery used (also overloaded network where I am so low speeds and YouTube some times keep on buffering due to the min 1mb/s required to stream HQ on the phone, and the issue with phantom network connection and takes 1 min for the phone to detect its no longer connected to the mast does this on 2 phones to dif makes Nokia and the desire)

If three works Grate where you are fine Three are very good on there plans. Just where I live they seem to think its ok that it only works out side�.. (Three around where I am need to place at least 10-15 more masts in between the currant masts that are operating as there are too many Dead spots unlike O2,Orange and T-mobile mostly) why Three setup there masts to far from each other when they have No 2g network to back it up

In reply to a post by leexgx:

the users who are having issue with tethering not allowed issues, are most likely Three ROM'ed phones or an iPhone (there will be 2 APN's on the phone one for mobile one for wifi/tethering)

If its an stock phone or not an Three locked phone (even if its unlocked from three its still an Three phone) tethering should not be an issue (iPhone you need to jail brake them as to change the second APN to be the same as the main one or use an app like PDAnet +jailbreak)

I had my Three PAYG all you can eat sim in my laptop i had no issue, but most likely they do not have that device IMEI number of that device to auto block it

I would use three just it hardly ever works in doors and results in more battery used (also overloaded network where I am so low speeds and YouTube some times keep on buffering due to the min 1mb/s required to stream HQ on the phone, and the issue with phantom network connection and takes 1 min for the phone to detect its no longer connected to the mast does this on 2 phones to dif makes Nokia and the desire)

If three works Grate where you are fine Three are very good on there plans. Just where I live they seem to think its ok that it only works out side�.. (Three around where I am need to place at least 10-15 more masts in between the currant masts that are operating as there are too many Dead spots unlike O2,Orange and T-mobile mostly) why Three setup there masts to far from each other when they have No 2g network to back it up

worked like a charm, thank you very much

hi all, just thought i'd add my exp. been with three for yonks (works grate(?) for me) been tethering on threepay 2gb allowance. no probs - its allowed. then i brought this europa and got the 15 dollar add on (£). tethered to the tune of 100gb a month. no probs. I then thought, ok. i changed my threepay sim for the latest plan and took the 12.90 rolling monthly. and guess what! they keep cutting me off. even when i'm just using adownloader app on phone! i'm cancelling my contract and gonna try the £15 add on till i can get a proper broadband deal with sky or someone

Edited by deleted (Sun 21-Oct-12 17:15:33)

I've been thinking of doing tethering as our home fixed line broadband is so slow (<1mb) but I would need a 3G HSPA+ phone that I can leave permanently at home.

I know they have the MiFi router but I think that is only very limited data...

So anyone know the cheapest way of doing this?

i.e. the cheapest 3G HSPA+ phone that you can tether to, by bluetooth or wifi, on a monthly all-you-can-eat plan from Three?

me again! what about this... frustrated by three keep cutting off my data - i'm on the 12.90 rolling monthly (europa) I spent twenty mins trying to cancel my contract. after that I hung up and resolved to try another day. With great joy I put the sim back into my sony g502. just for experiment I tried to tether via bluetooth (the connectors knackered else i'd tether usb. its faster). and it all worked. even filesharing and torrent sites that had been blocked before.
so why can i tether without restriction on one phone, and with the same sim be blocked on another? it makes my head hurt

rooted android phone & download wifi tether app from market

bingo !

they are powerless to stop you tethering other than data allowances

I just use rooted phone and wifi tethering, works a charm.

indeed and is secure using wpa2 or mac filtering

my europa has been unlocked and rooted, but is not in rooted state now. I don't want to pay 25 quid a month but would like to tether, computers, tablets, etc.
is there a change I can make to the apn to allow this. i didn't think three could detect tether but they keep cutting me (also when using adownloader on phone

len1964

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

I found my Europa looked better with it's guts on the outside.. horrible [censored] phone!

I don't know but I was going to say it's unlike 3 to cut off a contract customer.Although the tariff your on does not support tethering they can't tell if you use USB as it's passthrough.

Apart from the fact that your web browser sends out the info of what operating system you are using with every page request.

You could make it pretend it's a mobile device but then a lot of sites will give you the mobile version.

Edited by deleted (Sun 04-Nov-12 15:58:35)

I recently joined the Three 321 pay-as-you-go network.

I attempted to tether my tablet to my phone just yesterday not realising that it's supposedly not possible under pay as you go. (I used my phone as a wifi hotspot.)

It actually worked pretty well, although I occasionally had server errors when connecting to paypal.

Curiously a chunk was taken out of my credit even though they gave me over 100MB worth free data due to my last top up. I thought maybe I had used up the free data, (although I couldn't see why that much so quickly) but on checking later, it hadn't gone down much at all. It seems it circumvents the free allowance when you tether.

So I checked on Three how much they charge for tethering and it was then I found out that I couldn't do what I had done.

Edited by deleted (Sat 17-Aug-13 22:48:14)

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