Tethering to a Laptop Which Phone

Is there a difference between a Class 10 phone (Razr V3x) and a class 12
phone (krazr) on tethering speeds to a laptop. I currently have a
Blackberry Pearl and I am not sure what class it is (i guess class 10) but
it gets a good connection where i live. No there is no 3G in my area and no
i an not able to get DSL or cable and the laptop card does not work but at
dial up speeds (46kbps). I am trying to decide on whether to get the
tethering on my Blackberry or get an additional line and a good class 10 or
12 phone. Thank for any advice.

SH

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:48:01 -0600, "shadow" <catfancy@bellsouth.net>
wrote in <hZOAh.20978$19.8394@bignews3.bellsouth.net>:

>Is there a difference between a Class 10 phone (Razr V3x) and a class 12
>phone (krazr) on tethering speeds to a laptop. I currently have a
>Blackberry Pearl and I am not sure what class it is (i guess class 10) but
>it gets a good connection where i live. No there is no 3G in my area and no
>i an not able to get DSL or cable and the laptop card does not work but at
>dial up speeds (46kbps). I am trying to decide on whether to get the
>tethering on my Blackberry or get an additional line and a good class 10 or
>12 phone. Thank for any advice.

Class 12 is faster than Class 10 on upload, but not on download.
See the FAQ below.

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On Feb 14, 7:48 pm, "shadow" <catfa...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Is there a difference between a Class 10 phone (Razr V3x) and a class 12
> phone (krazr) on tethering speeds to a laptop. I currently have a
> Blackberry Pearl and I am not sure what class it is (i guess class 10) but
> it gets a good connection where i live. No there is no 3G in my area and no
> i an not able to get DSL or cable and the laptop card does not work but at
> dial up speeds (46kbps). I am trying to decide on whether to get the
> tethering on my Blackberry or get an additional line and a good class 10 or
> 12 phone. Thank for any advice.
>
> SH

Your Blackberry Pearl is EDGE Class 10 and you are not going to see a
noticable difference between the two classes. Maybe at best twice the
speed of dial up, but that is a vast improvement over dialup. Just be
careful on which data plan you choose. Make sure that you have a plan
that covers tethering the phone to a notebook or you could see a phone
bill that would give you a heart attack.

Anyway good luck on the choices but I would stick with your blackberry
until such time they deploy HSPDA/3G then your problems will be
solved.

Have a good one.

3GFreak
www.mobilevertigo.com