Comments on: Tethering your BlackBerry vs. mobile broadband modem

By: tonya

tonya — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:10:20 +0000

can someone tell me how to teather a boost blackberry 8330.

By: Nathan Smith

Nathan Smith — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:29:43 +0000

Yes, Teather works with the Boost Mobile BlackBerry 8330. I use it. You can try Teather out for free before you purchase it.

By: Cooper

Cooper — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:05:56 +0000

You should be able to use a program like Tether to use your Boost Blackberry as a modem but I would absolutely check with their customer service first to ensure this is supported before purchase.

By: catchrob

catchrob — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:01:01 +0000

Can a boost 8330 blackberry be used as a tethered modem. If so can some one give me instructions on how to set it up for my laptop.

By: Dillinger

Dillinger — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:20:30 +0000

@Joe.

Cheers mate. I wish for streaming p2p support on BB then. I want to watch the soccer.

There are lots of links to watch with Windows Media player is that supported on BB?

Pity thst I cannot get the full bandwidth … 200 plus kbps is ok for small scale streaming.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:04:08 +0000

Dillinger, it doesn’t sound like that’s possible. I’m not too familiar with tethering on EDGE, though, so I can’t say for sure. But it sounds like you’re stuck with what you’ve got.

By: Dillinger

Dillinger — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:06:49 +0000

I asked this on another thread and got no reply.

With Pearl Flip over EDGE, there seems to be a very big difference in speed between tethering and BB direct.

If I tether I get such numbers as 34kbps I get to use Firefox and a full keyboard .. etc … with onboard BB browser (not tethered) I get much faster speeds such as 234kbps but hard to type and see.

I use mobilespeedtest dot com and speedtest dot net.

I really want those extra kbps when I tether. Possible?

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By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:06:06 +0000

Thanks for this.
I have been using my BB Bold’s 3G internet connection through my laptop for 6 months now and it work great. I use a bluetooth adapter to connect to the Bold whenever im outside of a wifi zone i can connect to. Much more convenient than having a separate modem stick.

By: Jason Sands

Jason Sands — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:34:30 +0000

PDAnet is better, IMHO, and cheaper than MobiShark. http://www.junefabrics.com/blackberry/index.php

TetherBerry now has tethering for Mac non-bluetooth mode. http://www.tetherberry.com