Updated Tether and now it doesn't work?!?

Well I think I fixed this myself!!!

After uninstalling v1.4.3.7 from the Desktop (then rebooting) and reinstalling v1.4.3.7 back on the Desktop, the Packet Sent / Received count did its typical slow incrementing - but I *still* didn't have internet access nor could I ping any sites by name or IP Address.

So then I deleted v1.4.5.0 on the BB (pulling the battery afterwards to force a reboot), then re-installed the much older yet obviously more stable v1.1.0.4 (from http://tether.com/t/backups/1.1.0.4/tether.jad).

Upon relaunching v1.1.0.4 I ignored the automatic request to upgrade and my internet access was back (hurray)!!! Feeling cocky I shutdown Tether on both the Desktop and the BB and restarted them both (Desktop first of course then on the BB). This time I accepted the offer to upgrade Tether on the BB to v1.4.5.0 and once again it was borked?!?

So one more time I deleted v1.4.5.0 from the BB and did another battery pull, then reinstalled v1.1.0.4 on the BB (from the above link), and everything is once again all better. In fact I'm writing this right now over my Tether connection.

The lesson here is that v1.4.5.0 has issues (at least on my BB Tour 9630). I guess from now on I'll be much more wary when Tether offers an update. Just goes to show that newer isn't always better.

WTF is going on here!?!

For two weeks v1.1.0.4 was working perfectly and then suddenly today when I connected only the Packets Sent was incrementing while Packets Received stayed at zero?!? I could tell the Tether service was working because it nagged me to update to v1.4.5.0, which confirmed for me that both uploads and downloads were capable of working (at least from the POV of the phone).

After shutting Tether down and restarting it several times with no improvement, I decided to accept the upgrade to to v1.4.5.0 - and now it works!?! Is this Tether's draconian method of forcing users to upgrade from older versions?

At least v1.4.5.0 is working for me now. Earlier this month upgrading to the *same* version caused nothing but grief.

Tether will automatically prompt you when there is a update on the BlackBerry but not the PC.

Tether is looking into adding this feature in the near future.

Thanks for the reply, but that was not the point of my rant?

When I finally convinced myself the latest versions of Tether had been out long enough to qualify as being "stable" and recently updated them (to v1.4.5.0 on the BB and v1.4.3.7 on the Desktop) my internet connection quit working!

After figuring out how to reload v1.1.0.4 on the BB, I regained functionality - but then only for two weeks, after which it suddenly quit working again (with no changes on my part)!

Feeling frustrated and not having anything to lose, I re-accepted the upgrade to v1.4.5.0 on the BB and now it's working again (at least for the last week).

I consider myself to have slightly above average computer skills (being a programmer for 30+ years) and so I can see how somebody with less knowledge could easily get very discouraged with the working, then not working, then working nature of Tether? I thought Tether's design was much more stable than it actually is, and so now know not to rely on it as much as I used to for mobile internet connectivity.

My blackberry 8520 worked extremely well with the Tether trial version, when I decided to register it, it stopped working, giving me the "no network access" message. Please help. I've tried everything I can read!