<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 19/06/2009, at 11:44 AM, John Lindsay wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 19/06/2009, at 10:56 AM, Mark Newton wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Having trouble understanding how Optus (or any other carrier) can </div><div>distinguish between tethered access using their $10 per month paid-for</div><div>option, and tethered access using <a href="http://tetherme.lstoll.net/">http://tetherme.lstoll.net/</a></div><div>that the end-user has set up without consulting them for free.</div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Well they will be able to distinguish the access to the special APN that the tethering service will use and which will only be accessible to customers who pay the fee.</div><div><br></div><div>They won't be able to distinguish normal iPhone traffic from unofficial tethered traffic using the above tool or <a href="http://help.benm.at/help.php">http://help.benm.at/help.php</a></div><div><br></div><div>But they may spot the usage pattern...</div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>I'd been wondering about that.. I've been waiting for the 3.0 update to come out so that tethering was supported, so that I could replace my current setup of a boring old nokia navigator with a 1gb data plan doing phone calls + internet connection over bluetooth to my macbookpro, plus my old XDA IIs on a 100mb/month plan doing my email, with a single iPhone on the existing 1gb phone plan (and move the sim from the XDA into the PABX here so we get free calls to all the mobiles on our business account).. - Are they going to want to force me to change over to an 'iphone' plan??</div><div><br></div><div>And out of curiosity.. - has anyone using GPRS-only devices (aka non-3g, like my XDA IIs) stopped being able to get a data connection up since 3.0 went live? I haven't been able to get a GPRS connection up on my XDA for two days now..</div><div><br></div><div>--DG</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Damien Gardner Jnr<br>VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust<br><a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net">rendrag@rendrag.net</a> - <a href="http://www.rendrag.net/">http://www.rendrag.net/</a><br>--<br>We rode on the winds of the rising storm,<br> We ran to the sounds of thunder.<br>We danced among the lightning bolts,<br> and tore the world asunder</div><div><br></div></div></span></div></body></html>