<p>Stock android 2.1 does not support wifi tethering. It was introduced in froyo (2.2). Its quite possible that the nexus one had it early, but I was under the impression that they just got 2.2 before everyone else.</p>
<p>I currently run leedeoid on my htc desire because it gives me better exchange integration. Prior to froyo, there was no sufi<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 2010-11-09 8:35 AM, "Christopher Browne" <<a href="mailto:cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:17 AM, James Knott <<a href="mailto:james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org">james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Andrew Malcolmson wrote:<br>>>><br>>>> Yup, not on mine so must have been removed by Rogers.<br>>><br>>> I fail to understand why Rogers offers large data plans and not provide<br>>> phones that support tethering. I have a 6 GB plan and would be very hard<br>
>> pressed to use more than a tiny fraction of that without tethering. Now,<br>>> instead of looking for a hotspot where I can connect my notebook computer, I<br>>> just fire up the portable hotspot on my Nexus One. Incidentally, the phone<br>
>> will support up to 8 computers via WiFi. When I met some friends for<br>>> breakfast, a couple of months ago, we had 5 computers and other devices<br>>> connecting through it.<br>> <br>> They like having their cake ("fees that you pay") and eating it too<br>
> ("not needing to supply you with the extra GB of bandwidth that you<br>> might have imagined you paid for").<br>> <br>> If there's an app in the App Market that helps with tethering, they<br>> still "win"; they get to collect some fee for selling you the app, and<br>
> restrict tethering to the rather fewer people that jump through the<br>> hoops of figuring out it exists, and downloading and paying for it.<br>> <br>> All just an evidence of Not Inconsiderable Evil on the part of Robellus...<br>
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