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Palm have "politely" warned the Pre homebrewers behind the Pre Dev Wiki not to talk about hacking the handset for internet tethering on their site ... because Sprint might complain.

The caution from Palm suggests that 'they' don't have a problem with someone figuring out a tethering solution for the easily hackable handset, but that Sprint - who don't allow tethering, even on their $99 everything plan - might.

Palm warned that if Sprint complained, they would be forced to react against the people running the site with legal action. As a result the guys at Pre Dev Wiki have pulled any tethering chat and posted an explanation as to why it has gone.

We have been politely cautioned by Palm that any discussion of tethering during the Sprint exclusivity period (and perhaps beyond-we don't know yet) will probably cause Sprint to complain to Palm, and if that happened then Palm would be forced to react against the people running the IRC channel and this wiki.

They have however, added a note stating that Sprint does not have a Pre plan which allows tethering under the Terms Of Service. It seems like everyone involved is sticking a finger up at Sprint, though not necessarily to their face.

r33dh

I understand why they would want to prevent tethering because it puts a strain on the Sprint Network, but what will Sprint actually do to the people that use this hack when it becomes well functioning. We know Palm will not be able prevent tethering forever so really this is all a question about when not "how"

jsg

Not sure how many people are already doing this, but i got it working yesterday and it worls great!

I'm not all that savvy when it comes to linux but it was pretty simple just following the steps.

Looking forward to having such direct access (SSH, etc.) to the Pre!

mikekuriger

Every other treo can tether - I don't see the problem. ^shrugs^

dany8450

what is tethering?

erept0r

Tethering is using the phone as a modem for a computer via USB cable.

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NuEra

i am new to this hackin the pre stuff i need all the help i can get i dont even know how to make my own ringtones i tryed the hack that changes to back round of the phone app nothin .. maybe its the update but if anyone has done anything since the new update please help me with mine im trying to make it mines you know anyway thanks in advance

MSJ

It is a problem. Its called finite bandwidth. No matter how much money sprint pumps into the network, they only have so much spectrum to use by the FCC. People using this as a replacement to DSL or whatever (first should have their head examined) but they will end up chewing a bunch of the available network capacity. This hurts us all.

I would be pretty ticked if I had slow speeds and emails taking minutes to get to me because some joker is downloading alias season 2 from a torrent site on his laptop. This is exactly why the carriers deter its use. Not to be hard asses, but to protect the rest of us.

james

Although I agree with a lot of what you have said.... but at the same time I don't believe the company really cares too much about protecting, us.... but much rather their own interests..

sprint is a telecom company and they don't want to cannibalize themselves