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at&t;: No it's your fault.
apple: No it's your fault. who do you think everyone going believe?
at&t;: shut up. it's your fault.

Would y'all just give it back to us. this absolute bs. they're already charging too much for the service. Why can't they just cut us some slack in these times and quit nickel'n'diming us when they.

this makes sense to me. i'll bet you it's all good to go but RUNS LIKE SHIT on att's network

Oct 23, 08 - 01:22 pm Comment from: Crazylegs

AT&T;needs to get their shit together.

i was one of the lucky ones to purchase NetShare before it was pulled. It is very easy to configure and works great on EDGE
dd

I wouldn't say that AT&T;delay on this is paranoia. Anyone who uses 3G in a major metropolitan area can tell you that at peak hours the service lags. Even voice calls can get shaky when you're phone says you have full reception. If tethering was added these problems would get worse, and I'd rather wait until AT&T;can ramp up more capacity so the network doesn't fall apart.

Remember when we all laughed because Apple said they wanted to make sure apps didn't crash AT&Ts;network? I thought it was BS then but if Apple knew they were going to sell a gajillion iPhones maybe they were just seeing this problem long ago. A million iPhones get tethering and I'd never make a phone call again.

Oct 23, 08 - 01:40 pm Comment from: John

These yokels should really have planned ahead a little more. Hell, 3G is still so pathetically distributed that it's an embarrassment. I think ATT was planning to let their inadequacies hide behind consumer ignorance, but iPhone users tend to be pretty astute and are revealing just how poorly thought out ATT's network expansion has been.

they should open the device up to more carriers so AT&T;can catch a breath

Oct 23, 08 - 01:50 pm Comment from: alansky

Pitiful, pitiful, pitiful!!!

"they should open the device up to more carriers so AT&T can catch a breath"

Not possible until at least 2012 (in the U.S.).

Oct 23, 08 - 02:06 pm Comment from: MacintoshSoftwareList.com

It's the network. Sounds like a competitors ad campaign.

Sounds like teethering pains.

@John

Maybe you should have been in charge of deploying 3G service to all 3.8 million square miles of the United States. I have no idea what AT&T;were thinking by only deploying it to the largest metro areas first. I mean... can't they just wave their magic wand and provide flawless 3G service for over 10 million high bandwidth devices everywhere?

Oct 23, 08 - 02:12 pm Comment from: ron

So the message from AT&T;is- - - Drumroll - - Don't be so successful Apple.

Oct 23, 08 - 02:20 pm Comment from: 84 Mac Guy

Hey AT&T;, you want us iPhone users then make some freakin' room for us!

Verizon Blackberries unaffected.

:..Verizon Blackberries unaffected."

Well, no. If the AT&T;network is overcrowded or down, the phone network itself is affected for every customer, not just iPhone users...

@Dan,

Netshare doesn't work nearly as well as PDAnet. PDAnet is incredible with a good 3G connection.

And it's free for jailbroken iPhones.

@Macslut

Totally agreed. PDAnet for the win. An amazing application and I regularly get download speeds of 1.5 Mbps when using it to tether my MacBook Pro to my iPhone.

So AT&T;doesn't want US users to tether. But what about us Europeans? As far as I know my provider NetCom (Norway) is ok with me tethering my Mac to my iPhone. But Apple won't let me because of a problem across the pond? AT&T;doesn't exist here, so how come they get to decide? So I jailbroke too, just to get the opportunity to use the 'net when i visit my mother (no wideband there)...

Before anyone starts praising Verizon's 3G network, just remember that Verizon and Sprint's 3G networks won't let you use data services simultaneously with voice services. That means if you get a call while tethered, you either miss the call or drop your tethered connection.

The fact is wireless networks (ALL wireless networks) simply aren't up to the amount of data that people want to send through them. That's why talk of streaming video/iChat to every phone is ridiculous. No one has a network that could handle even a small percentage of that, let alone everyone.

Hopefully this stress will lead to innovation. It would be nice if AT&T;lept forward and started to rival elsewhere in the world.

Then, AT&T;might be where it's att.

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

Oct 23, 08 - 08:57 pm Comment from: _Bill_

I've always wondered why the hard drive just goes crazy sometimes on a Windows box. Maybe Macs don't have hard drive activity lights because they'd only come on when you'd expect the hard disk to be active; how boring... Where's the mystery in that?

Oct 23, 08 - 08:59 pm Comment from: _Bill_

Oops, that was supposed to be posted under this article:

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/18869/

If they could get my iPhone 3G to actually stop dropping calls, I'd be happy. I'm guessing this is part of the problem they are discussing that's preventing the tethering. I'm starting to wish I had waited to get the iPhone... my business clients are beginning to think I'm calling from Nova Scotia or something. Call quality and consistency is sorely lacking!!

AT&T;needs = CrazyLegs
AT&T;delay = Jay
AT&T;were = jbella
AT&T;network = HDBoy
AT&T;doesn't = Tomas S.
AT&T;might = R

So what is with the semi-colon and no space after AT&T;? Or is this all the same person posting? Very strange....

Aha! One was added to my post, and not by me, why is that?

"So what is with the semi-colon . . .?"


Re: AT&T

It's been explained ad nauseam.

Shhhh. Don't look here:
(http://rabbit.eng.miami.edu/info/htmlchars.html)

Oct 24, 08 - 09:20 am Comment from: Roger Knights

Apple could offer to loan AT&T;a few billion to upgrade its network. Or buy a few AT&T;shares & get a seat on its board.