CyangenMod or Android Market for tethering?

[Ijaaz A. Ullah]

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.

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