Don't need so much on the phone, but if it can be bridged to your desktop/laptop you can use tons of bandwidth. I use my V3xx (connected via USB) in place of Comcast HSI when it is degraded or down (which has happened a lot over the past six months). The latency is higher but it's better than dealing with bursts of dropped packets.
Anyone know if iPhone can be bridged this way? The 3G iPhone will certainly be on my shopping list if it can do that.
The current iPhone can't be tethered as a computer modem. I would love to have that feature, though only if I can buy the computer modem service in terms of a day at a time and then back down to phone-only data service. Even $5/day for a couple days would be worth it for me if my primary internet service goes down.
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Don't need so much on the phone, but if it can be bridged to your desktop/laptop you can use tons of bandwidth. I use my V3xx (connected via USB) in place of Comcast HSI when it is degraded or down (which has happened a lot over the past six months). The latency is higher but it's better than dealing with bursts of dropped packets.
Anyone know if iPhone can be bridged this way? The 3G iPhone will certainly be on my shopping list if it can do that.
The current iPhone can't be tethered as a computer modem. I would love to have that feature, though only if I can buy the computer modem service in terms of a day at a time and then back down to phone-only data service. Even $5/day for a couple days would be worth it for me if my primary internet service goes down.