Tag: tethering
Internet Anywhere
by wid0w on Jul.12, 2009, under Blackberry, Computers, Personal, Software, Software, Technology
So I just picked up a copy of Tetherberry tonight, decided I could certainly get some use out of something like that. And I will especially now that I have this netbook pretty much running how I want it. Battery life is rather good so far with Windows 7, although for the best battery life I must reduce Windows 7 to its Power Saver mode. It takes away some of the prettiness of the operating system, but oh well, it still does what I want it to.
So Tetherberry will allow me to use my Blackberry data plan as my internet connection, wherever I can get data service on my phone. I have nationwide coverage and it is a pretty big network, so I should pretty much be able to hop online from anywhere. Now obviously with the type of connection that I have I do not plan on watching a movie over the internet with it. I really intend the connection to be for email, light web browsing and messaging. That is mostly because I don’t want to over use my connection, and since I would only really use it when I am travelling it shouldn’t be a problem to keep the bandwidth usage to a minimum.
I will be checking out Tetherberry over the next couple of days, and I will throw my thoughts up in a few days. This is certainly not new software and has been out for several months, but I felt the need to type something so this is what I came up with. LOL.
If you would like to check out Tetherberry for yourself, feel free to visit their website at http://www.tetherberry.com. The software currently sells for $49.95, but compared to the monthly recurring cost of tethering service with most of the nations cell phone providers, that is a small price to pay. And more importantly it is a one-time fee. As I mentioned I don’t intend to use anymore bandwidth than I would normally use on my cell phone during a given day, not to mention that I would most likely only ever use the software a few times a month. But to be able to look at map on a screen the size of a netbook or laptop instead of that tiny Pearl screen makes it worth it 10 times over, I would even take it over the Storm screen.
