We were told different things by different people about out HTC Evo 4G plan. My dad claims he got a business cell plan deal. Well the salesman mistakenly told him that the Evo came with free broadband connect on all the phones (false, it costs $29.99 per phone) but not the outdated tethering (which it does for free (I think) if you use HTC Sync or PDANet). I don't know why they charge people for the internet tethering if they cannot control it. I guess people just don't now they can without buying the plan. Some of my Pakistani friends in Minnesota were using PDANet back in 2006 and avoiding the internet tethering fees then. 

Because of the misrepresentation, he talked to his supervisors and approved the Broadband connect on all the phones. When I called the general tech support and went into the Sprint Stre, tey said our plan did not have the Broadband connect feature on it, but that I could add it for $29.99 per line and they could activate it the.However I had to call the people that sold us the phones several times to get it activated since I was getting error codes. 

The salesman said that the Broadband connect feature was free. It wasn't. It was an extra 29.99 a month per line. Tethering through USB was also supposed to cost an extra 19.99 per line I think. It may be poss

The Internet connection is not always reliable and may need to be reset. First try... menu-System updates-update profile. Then go to Menu-Settings- Wireless and networks and turn off and then turn on the "mobile networks" checkmark at the bottom of the page. If you get an error message, you may need to try the next step.

I get the error message (with a period in the wrong place) " Error code 67 .Registration failure. Your PCS Vision username and/or password may be incorrect. Please try again "

 If that doesn't work, you may need to go to "phone" and dial ##3282#-  Edit Mode- (type in a 6 digit phone specific code)- Data Profile -menu- restore- "Your custom data profile will be erased. Do you want to continue?" (If it worked before, but isn't now,  press "OK".) Device will reboot.

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--The downside to this phone is that when you are sharing an Internet connection with a computer, your connection stops as soon as you make or recieve a phone call. It will resume after the call has finished. Maybe this is to save battery life. I wonder if it can be disabled. Only one Internet connection will work at any given time. A previously existing Internet connection wil be closed if a new one is started. You can not do a USB tether and a Broadband Connect WiFi at the same time. 

With PDANet and perhaps even HTC Sync('s drivers), it may be possible to get a USB or Bluetooth internet connection, and share it with other computers via WiFi. The broadband connect pretty much makes this obsolete though since the BBC is more simple to use.

If you do the HTC or PDANet route, you will have to install software on your laptop. If you wil use different laptops, have the install files on your sd card in your phone. Connect your phone as a mounted device, look in the "downloads" folder, and that is where they should be if you downloaded the install files from your phone's Internet. 

Another thing is that on a Windows computer, you can download computer files to accompany some integration features with Microsoft Outlook and allow Internet sharing and stuff. http://shop.sprint.com/en/software_downloads/pda_smartphone/htc_evo.shtml

For other phones, you just go to sprint.com/downloads and click on your phone.

I looked at it and didn't see how the internet connection would work. My dad got it to work. Once you install the program, you are able to connect your phone to the computer and the "Share internet with computer option" pops up on the phone screen along with "charge only", "Mount as disk drive" type options. Then, on Windows, you have to go to network connections and you should be able to see it working. I got .71 then .79 Mb/s download and .43 then .47Mb/s upload from a St. Louis server. .87 Mb/s and .44 from Bixby, Oh. Interestingly enough, this was done on a "slow" USB 1.1 connection (old computer). The downside to this HTC Sync option is that you have to tether through a usb cable to your computer. PDANet lets you connect through UBB or bluetooth, but you have to enable PDAnet on your cell phone unlike this HTC Sync option. However, the cable probably isn't a bad option

I just downloaded PDANet from the android marketplace, downloaded the install files onto my sd card on my phone, then plugged my phone into my computer, installed the program on the computer as well, turned PDA net on my phone and opened it on my computer and got .49 MB/s download and .13Mb/s upload at 10.25 am on a Thursday morning according to speedtest.net. I ran it through my USB modem.

Using the Broadband connect had similar speeds, .50 Mb/s upload and .28 Mb/s upload. I tried it again a few minutes later with the same server and got .37 Mb/s and .03 Mb/s upload. I tried from a different erver, and for .17 Mb/s download and .20 Mb/s upload.

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