Re: tethering
John Crawford <[email protected]>
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On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Peter T. Chattaway <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 6 Nov 2010, John Crawford wrote: >> >> Because cell phones typically only have web browsing, they only need port >> 80. > > Hmmm. But I read e-mail on my phone too, using HTC Mail. (If I used my > Gmail account at all, I could use the Gmail app on my phone, too.) Do these > things use port 80, or something else? Not sure what apps use which ports, but it appears they have certain ports that are open, and certain ports that are closed. I'm sure they don't want you to start downloading movie torrents on your cell connection... >> So the company may decide to limit the type of traffic allowed especially >> since tethering is still a hot subject, and usually not allowed. > > What do you mean by "hot subject"? Well, for the most part, cell companies do not like tethering, because it means their networks are going to get clogged up with people using their laptops to browse the web (laptop will use more of the bandwidth than a cell phone browser typically). And users want to be able to do this... It seems that some companies will flat out say that you can't do it, while some make it readily available (as it sounds like with your carrier). And others will just ignore the topic, not making it easily available. For instance, T-Mobile which I have hasn't really stopped it from happening on Android phones, but they don't provide an app for it. There are 3rd party apps that will let you though. However, T-Mobile is going to start offering it, but for an additional monthly charge. John -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot