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anyone teathering with a rooted phone?

jacksonpt

Turbo Monkey
Jul 22, 2002
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Vestal, NY
I'm thinking about rooting my droid x. Is anyone teathering with a rooted phone? How is it? Work ok for typical email/web browsing?

I've read that it works fairly well, but speeds are less than what most people expected.
 

ridiculous

Turbo Monkey
Jan 18, 2005
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FWIW my phone is not rooted but I do tether with it quite often via PDANet and the speeds are not so bad. Ive always heard tethering speeds via barnacle are way faster.
 

PatBranch

Turbo Monkey
Sep 24, 2004
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wine country
I tether with my rooted droid all the time. A few weeks ago, I had a really good 3g signal and was surprised how quick I was uploading fullsize photos to my site.
 

syadasti

i heart mac
Apr 15, 2002
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VT
You can do tethering without rooting usually. PDANet mentioned above will work and also Quick Settings will let you enable the setting if your carrier hides it. On EVDO_a you'll probably get around 1Mbps max.