I am without Internet access this morning at home. No big deal - an outage has to happen sometime, right? We can't have a perfect world, so I am not all that upset about not being able to read e-mail. I have many other things to do at 5 am.
However, one thing I chose to do was test the new tethering capability on Android 2.2. Would I need a driver or special software? Android 2.2 gave devices the capability to share its Internet connection via WiFi (which was a fantastic idea, by the way), but Verizon left that part out of the 2.2 update for the Droid. I called them cock-blocks that day for that. A statement I read spewed some bullshit about the Droid not having the ability to do that - a hardware limitation.
Folks have been rooting the Droid and making it a hotspot since the damn thing hit the streets. It obviously has the capability.
Anyway, it turns out that if I want to tether it with USB, all I have to do is plug it in and turn on tethering. Windows 7 apparently works well with it. We got a private address and everything - it looked good. However, I did not have access to the Internet. I tried to browse the Web with the phone and got the page from Verizon that said: "If you would like to subscribe to mobile broadband..." I was not happy. If I have unlimited Internet access via my handheld device, what is the difference if I use that connection with a computer? Why do I have to pay even more just to use the same service in a different way?
I didn't get an iPhone because AT&T wireless sucks in rural areas, such as the one in which I live. Sprint is the same. Verizon has coverage nearly anywhere I go, so I stuck with them. Now they're sticking it to me. And I am not happy.
I do now believe that when I move to a respectably-sized city I will be switching carriers. Wankers.
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