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I'm getting ready to go camping for 2 weeks & will need to access the internet so that I can complete my college class assignments. I was mislead when I bought my Droid that I would be able to tether it to my laptop for a internet connection. I've since learned that this is not possible alothough I do have the option of using my daughters upgrade for the Droid X. I'd really rather not purchase a new phone before I leave town. Can someone help me figure out how to tether my laptop to my cell or is this even possible?
Thanks so much!!!
Melissa
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{edit for TOS violation}
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Officially Verizon does not allow "tethering" from you phone to your laptop for internet access.
As far as I know the Droid X will not allow this either, but I don't have one to check and see.
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Verizon offers tethering. At least, according to there web site they do:
Also, I've seen multiple tethering apps in the Marketplace. Haven't tried any of them though.
Hope this helps
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You are right. Apologies. I assumed that the question was more of a tethering "for free" question, which certainly wasn't stated in the question (that's what I get for assuming ).
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However, I've also heard that they don't actually support this for the Droid yet, so it's a bit hard to tell.
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There are multiple applications for tethering that exist on Android. As far as I know Verizon doesn't offer THEIR OWN application to charge people.
The most that anyone can say is do a search of 'tethering' in the market and see what you come up with.
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momx3drr wrote:I'm getting ready to go camping for 2 weeks & will need to access the internet so that I can complete my college class assignments. I was mislead when I bought my Droid that I would be able to tether it to my laptop for a internet connection. I've since learned that this is not possible alothough I do have the option of using my daughters upgrade for the Droid X. I'd really rather not purchase a new phone before I leave town. Can someone help me figure out how to tether my laptop to my cell or is this even possible?
Thanks so much!!!
Melissa
I don't know how to do it but I'm sure you can find out from other websites. But I just wanted to warn you that if you do find a way to tether it, the "unlimited" data plan that we all have isn't really unlimited. In the fine print there's a monthly limit of gigabytes, which you wouldn't normally go over if you just use your cell to do mobile web stuff.
I read that on the Droid Forum at Motorola.
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Just do an Android Market search on the word "tether" and you will find what you are looking for.......