[Vibrant General] N8ter:
People have been posting potential workarounds to get around T-Mobile's tethering blocks since day 1, and not everyone has had their tethering blocked. Also, even if you pay T-Mobile for tethering, you still are using the same 5GB data limit whether you tether or not, and you are subject to throttling. You pay for the right to tether, not for any amount of extra data. Only web connect offers you seperate data limits for Phone and your computer (provided you even have a smartphone with a data plan).

It still doesn't explain why you used over 3GB of data in one day, even if you were installing a ROM there is no way it could use that much data.

Most modern smartphones are really powerful. There are more powerful phones than the G2 out these days, but those people do not use 3-3.5GB of data in one day.

Sorry.

Lol @ dusting off an old laptop. Seriously... Is it really that hard to download it on a laptop and drag it over to USB Mass Storage? (the thing WP7 is missing that Android fans cry so heavily about?).

If there was a bleed somewhere, there would be way more people complaining about this issue. Also, the issue would be a bit more normalized. You usage pattern (from the data you posted) showed relatively normal data usage, until the 23rd, which would lead one to believe you started using the phone to download huge files thereafter. If you were mucking around with ROMs and such, that would explain the issue.

It's not T-Mobile's fault. Their 5GB soft-cap is more than enough. 3rd party ROMs are not supported and they cannot be expected to make consessions just cause a minority of users want to use their phone's data connection almost exclusively for downloading large ROMs and things of that like.

If you had ran over your cap in 3 days due to relatively normal Zune Pass usage or downloading music from AmazonMP3, then I guess the issue would be a bit more controversial, and I'd almost be inclined to agree with you... However, keep thinking that your addition to ROM hopping/downloading/whatever is a proof-of-concept that a 5GB soft-cap is unacceptably low. I'll just continue to LMAO. Public data from both carriers and independent researchers has been disagreeing with this notion for the past decade.

Remember, I didn't start this thread. If you don't like dissenting opinions or rebuttals you're free to keep you mouth closed here and run to the T-Mobile forums. There are no CSRs here...

You're free to use ROM manager for your phone, but any data that app uses is you fault. It's pretty well known that those apps use a considerable amount of data. You just underestimated (by far) the amount of data it would rack up in such a small amount of time. That's no one's fault but yours.

It's like someone downloading a DVD image on their phone because the connection is faster than their home internet, and then complaining that they got capped in a day and the soft cap is way too low in their opinion... It's ludicrous.

T-Mobile won't stop you from doing that (downloading a Linux DVD image and then putting on you computer via USB MSD transfer), but they also don't want to here you cries and wails when they throttle you down and limit you (practically) to edge for the rest of the billing cycle.

Apps like Pandora/Slacker stream at relatively low bitrates, Zune Pass streams at half the bitrate of downloaded songs, YouTube doesn't even use the highest HQ resolution for phones. It's impossible to do 5GB unless you're basically running these apps 18 hours a day on top of downloading a bunch of large files. To do it in one day... Sorry, it's impossible.