Well, I had this problem with my Droid 1... I wanted to tether my phone, and thought that I could use my phone because Verizon offered a phone tether option for an extra$ 30 for other phones, such as, a Blackberry. However, I was told by a customer sales rep at Verizon that I cannot tether a Droid.... THROUGH VERIZON. I would have to download an app through the android market that would enable me to tether my phone.
I tried a couple of free ones, and there was a good free one called" Easy tether" but you can only access "public sites", like google and yahoo... no secure sites, at all....
Easy tether offered a" pro" version for only$ 9.99, and so I decided to try it out. I figured I would know if liked it within the first day And if it didn't work for me, at least I would get my money back.
I found that I liked the program, although for set up, you will need to be able to access the Internet from the laptop you want to use, because you will need to download the accompanying program to your computer... I suggest going to Barnes and Noble or some otherplace with wi-fi.
The directions are very simple, and it was only $10... plus a service rep told me to do it, so I definately do not see any problem in using a service like this one.
Hope this helps....
