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Tethering your BlackBerry to your laptop as a high-speed modem…

November 24, 2005 by Robb Dunewood 7 Comments

The BlackBerry 7130e will be available in stores soon and as we wait for it, I wonder if one of it’s features will fundamentally change how many of us CrackBerry addicts fundamentally use the BlackBerry.

This really cool feature that I am talking about is high-speed modem tethering. Tethering your BlackBerry to a laptop is not a new feature. In fact, I have done it many times with my T-mobile 7100t. The problem with the ‘old tether’ is that it is painfully slow. Slow like draining a swimming pool through a coffee straw. The ‘new tether’ on the other hand , using the new BlackBerry 7130e that runs on Verizon’s high speed EvDO network will offer broadband speeds of 400-700 KBs. This is like draining a pool by tipping it on its side and letting the water run out.

If you walk through any airport during the week it is fairly common to see dozens of business travelers head down in the BlackBerry prayer, thumbing away on their devices while their laptop sits idly by in the computer bag. Will we start to see more of these folks with their laptops open and the BlackBerry next to it allowing them not only to send and receive the same email that they get on the BlackBerry, but connect back to their office, surf the Internet with a full screen browser, or even play game of World of WarCraft online all from their laptop that has a fast Internet connection thanks to the high-speed modem tether?

Some would say that you could already do this if you had a wireless broadband card, however, many would argue the the expense of the card and the service weren’t worth it when you would still need to own a BlackBerry for those times when pulling your laptop out is not as convenient as when you are sitting in an airport. That argument goes away when you can add unlimited BroadBand Connect to your BlackBerry for as little as an additional $15 a month.

I am so… getting one of these when they come out.

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  1. Slack says

    February 11, 2007 at 6:08 pm

    $15 more? With which provider?

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  2. Michael says

    May 20, 2007 at 5:34 pm

    How do you do this? I currently have a Blackberry 8703 and I am having issues with the whole tethering deal. Help!

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  3. Robb Dunewood says

    May 21, 2007 at 10:01 am

    Michael, it is pretty straight forward on Verizon, however, you must sign up for the broadband connect service which will run you an additional $15 bucks per month. Once you enable the service for your BlackBerry all you have to do is install and configure VZAccess Manager which Verizon will give you the instructions for.

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  4. jeff johnson says

    August 16, 2007 at 12:50 pm

    yes, but be aware that some companies charge for unlimited access + up to 19. per month. so it will cost me 59. per month to “tether”. i think the fee is exhorbatent.

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  5. Thibaut Colar says

    August 24, 2007 at 7:29 pm

    I just managed to get this to work with my BB pearl under linux !
    http://wiki.colar.net/tethering_with_blackberry_pearl_on_linux

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  6. bigtank says

    September 19, 2009 at 12:17 am

    will tethering my blackberry using sprint with an ulimited data plan cost me more money. currently sprint no longer has the service they used to have. You could for an extra 15 dollars a month use your blackberry as a modem. They have removed that option. I know i can still tether my blackberry, but was wondering if it would incur extra charges from sprint, and if they would even know I was doing it.

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  7. John A Davis says

    October 11, 2010 at 3:12 pm

    go to tether.com,

    Reply

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