Treo Tethering with Verizon
 

Does Verizon have any tethering plans for its Treo. I know you can legally tether a Blackberry for $15 more a month.

Thx.

Stu

Treo Tethering on Verizon
 

Unlike Sprint, I do not believe there is a plan on Verizon. I use PDA Net from June Fabrics, if you go to some tothe Treo Sites (treonauts, mytreo.net) you can find the writeups and reviews of this and other.

PDA Net advantage is that it is a 1 time cost of about 25 bucks and you can get 2.5mbps in EVDO areas.

I set a close friend up with June Fabrics's PDA Net in December. He, however, uses Verizon's mail sync utility to sync with his office Outlook and Verizon disables Activesync (needed for PDANet). I reenabled Activesync and told him to never build an Activesync profile (always use Guest mode). Two days ago all data on his phone and desktop disappeared. Verizon's logs show that the command came from the Treo.

I think Verizon is completely wrong for pushing a solution that ignores industry standards, but I'm not going to win this fight. I was therefore looking for an alternative.

My friend works for a small firm and they don't want to directly open up their exchange server because of the extra security issues involved. Plan B is to VPN the PDA in to sync with Exchange, but no one is going to love this issue.

There's a better (free and faster) hack to allow the Treo to be used as a USB or BT modem with your laptop. Over at PDAPhonehome DOT com, there is a ton of information.

Not sure about the Treo, but one alternative is to simply use the phone as a modem with no plan. You'll need a driver, and a cable from USB port to phone. You just use anytime minutes, regardless of when you connect. I've done this with Verizon using LG and Samsung phones for years before I bought a high speed card. Speed was usually around 100kbps.