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Unlimited Data with an AT&T Beam USB Modem
I know you can't tether with your phone or a hotspot device on the Unlimited Data Plan but can you use the AT&T Beam USB modem as an extra device?
The reason I ask is you could buy a Surface 3 4G LTE tablet and add that as a tablet device to the unlimited plan.
I have a Surface 3 (Wifi Only). Adding the modem would make it function the same as the tablet with 4g.
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Gary L
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8 years ago
No (because then you could tether anything to it).
They don't allow you to tether/hotspot with tablets either, so it's not really the same.
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sandblaster
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8 years ago
@Gary L He's not saying he would be tethering. He would be using the usb modem to make a wifi only tablet capable of using cellular data.
@robrj I am not positive but I see no reason why you couldn't.
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robrj
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8 years ago
Sandblaster is correct. I'm not looking to tether with the tablet or make it into a hotspot. I just want it to function like a 4g tablet device.
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Gary L
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8 years ago
I shouldn't have said "anything", you could plug in things other than the tablet, like a laptop which you could then tether other things to it or a desktop; they even made wireless routers with USB ports on them which could become instant unlimited hotspots.
This just seems like too easy of a way to circumvent AT&T's no tethering with Unlimited, I don't think it'd work. I'd be happy to be wrong with this, I'd like to plug it in my laptop, get the unlimited plan and ditch my home internet...
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robrj
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8 years ago
Looks like it won't work. I just tried to add it to my plan but it gives me an error:
"2. You've selected a device that isn't compatible with your available plan(s)"
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David606
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8 years ago
Nah it detects the Beam and those devices as hotspot type devices. Even though the Beam is a USB device that connects to a single device the issue is that with Windows ICS and things like that it's possible to "share" that connection with a multitude of devices.
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formerlyknownas
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8 years ago
@Gary L was correct, it's still tethering. The only permitted is the connected car.
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