Is use of Tether program possible with Mobile Hotspot?

[saxxman]

As the title indicates? Anyone try using Mobile Hotspot with Tether?

[BergerKing]

Why would you need to? Tether is for a tied use of your data to run a computer on the internet. A Wi-Fi hotspot does the same thing except without a cable.

[saxxman]

But Mobile Hotspot requires extra tethering plan where Tether doesn't.

[GJW]

I sent this question to the support group for TetherBerry and they said it will not work. They also said until/unless they receive information on the 7.1 SDK that would give them the required APIs to hook into the hotspot functionality, there is nothing they can do to work around the issue (at this time).

[saxxman]

Originally Posted by GJW

I sent this question to the support group for TetherBerry and they said it will not work. They also said until/unless they receive information on the 7.1 SDK that would give them the required APIs to hook into the hotspot functionality, there is nothing they can do to work around the issue (at this time).

Great to hear they're working on it!!!!

Thanks!!!

[saxxman]

Originally Posted by BergerKing

Why would you need to? Tether is for a tied use of your data to run a computer on the internet. A Wi-Fi hotspot does the same thing except without a cable.

It also provides wifi to four other devices.

[marcho11]

So, what as the consumer, can we do to expedite this? I've always been interested in the app, but never pulled the trigger because of my device. But now, with the 9810,a Playbook and a laptop, I'm extremely interested in a workaround to use hotspot without having to pay ATT more money.

I would purchase a Tether app/workaround on Day 1, if it became available.