It might be an extra helping at dinner or a little more coffee to make it through the day. I was blocked from tethering on android by some telco once, just had to use Clockworks Easytether to get past it. The data should look the same to them tethered or not.

Shop today. Easily fixed with a VPN or probably various other tricks. There's an Optus mobile broadband thread on Whirlpool. So yeah, it's going to be quite a bit slower.

It had about 12 minutes to go. No surprises. That the same video will be counted off your download quota if you tether and view it on another device. Unlimited was offered before by vodaphone and it crippled their entire network and stopped that race dead for years. 1 or a few bad connections are not going to stop nor slow down the wifi broadband evolution.

There's those generalisations again. Yea just moved to Telstra because of this. @samfisher5986: Not sure if it still live or on many phones but there is actually a "tether_dun_required" setting that distinguishes tethered traffic from non-tethered. Couldn't be happier as an ex-Telstra customer (they only lost my business due to phone I wanted being exclusive with Optus). We audit the prices across the whole market regularly and we don't alter the ranking of products in our organic search based on any commercial relationship. If I get a large ISO off an FTP site that would seem an obvious one, but what about a large PDF from a web site, or an update from the App or Play Store? I switched from optus to telstra, and found reception and speed worse. Telstra is giving me 72Mbps at my house. Tethered @ 1.5mbps..thats a pretty cool deal though. hey offtopic but does the word crap get censored? This is a great start. And then it's going to suck, and this deal isn't going to be a bargain at all. So I checked the client settings, and remembered I had limited download speed to 300KiB/S a few months ago, otherwise so much data comes through on popular torrents, that the browser slows/stops responding. ;-). All trademarks are owned by their respective owners.OzBargain is an independent community website which has no association with nor endorsement by the respective trademark owners.
Generally need at least 3Mbps to stream 720p at a relatively low bitrate without buffering. http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/3708720093, I use 4G optus and the speed test shows 20-30mbps download and upload is between 5-15mbps.

Like what happens when you open Youtube and select 1080p? About this Service: WhistleOut maintains a broad list of providers to help you compare, always covering at least the top ten providers in every category so you can make a transparent choice. The point is they limit only when tethering. Last time I checked there, no-one knew what the difference was to help others to do the same. It says music and video streaming, downloads, and tethering at 1.5Mbps. @dwhes:
So not just tethering is slowed. WhistleOut never makes unsolicited calls and we never ask for credit card details. You can browse at regular 4G speeds and that’s about it.