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David Singer · 6 months ago

iPhone 3G? 3GS? The tethering tests are a part of whether or not I'll bump from 3G to 3GS.

dave · 6 months ago

3G

howardweaver · 6 months ago

David Singer: I followed the instruction from DW and am now tethered on a plain ole 3G iPhone. I'm on Edge network here in the foothills, and it's slow but works.

Dave Winer: Thanks.

Daniel · 6 months ago

Does this method kill your Visual Voicemail though? Also, what's the link to the site you're referring to?

dave · 6 months ago

Ooops, I never linked to the site with the instructions. Will fix right away.

Daniel · 6 months ago

Did a bit of testing on my own. This method unlocks tethering but, for me at least, it breaks Visual Voicemail (or at least I have no indicator of new voicemail). It also, and this is a super huge quirk, doesn't let anyone ring my number when tethering is active. I tried calling my number and got a "your call cannot be completed as dialed".

Comment left via tethering :)

dave · 6 months ago

Oooh that's not good. :-(

Daniel · 6 months ago

Yeah, it should be "This SOB is illegally tethering his iPhone." I'd bet that there's another half to the equation of getting this to work well on AT&T's end.

Kevin Whalen · 6 months ago

I see the following update at the link "- Working on all new Mobileconfig. No more VVM Probs!". The USA file has been updated since yesterday. I wonder if this is still a problem?

pbump · 6 months ago

This site as in this scripting.com URL?

dave · 6 months ago

??

Kevin Whalen · 6 months ago

Did you lose visual voicemail with the updated mobileconfig file?

cshotton · 6 months ago

From everything I've seen and tried, a simple reboot (hold down power button, swipe to power off, then hold power down to turn it back on) restores any missing voice mail or MMS functionality.

Pete · 6 months ago

Surely no one expects that Apple will let this hole remain open for long, do they? And there's a worst-case scenario in which you find that AT&T has canceled your account and bricked your iPhone.

cshotton · 6 months ago

Woot!

cshotton · 6 months ago

Your MiFi still has a significant use *if* this is something you ever need it for. It will still allow multiple WiFi users to share a single Sprint connection, right? Apple chose not to route WiFi to 3G as a method of tethering (silly, IMO), so you can't support multiple users at once unless you go the next silly step of sharing your internet connection from your laptop via its WiFi. Talk about a kludge...

dave · 6 months ago

Good point. I feel better now. :-)

neekolas · 6 months ago

Also, WiFi Internet sharing on the iPhone sucks through a fully charged battery in about 40 minutes in my experience with PDANet

joelasaro · 5 months ago

But, with iphone attached to computer it charges. Now if my laptop battery just lasted longer.

marshal sandler · 6 months ago

You have a $400.00 expensive toy ! HEH nice review !

Joshua_Whalen · 6 months ago

Hmmmm.. I seem to recall there being another way to do this on earlier iphone os versions. It used an ipmasquerading script. I will go see if I can find it for you. THAT one allowed multiple computers to be tethered at once.

eas · 6 months ago

That required a jailbreak.

Joshua_Whalen · 6 months ago

So, what's wrong with jailbreaking? Heck, if I were in jail, I'd really want someone to get me out! How wouldn't matter very much....

Anyway, here's the link:

http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/10/16/how-to-...

Mark Dzmura · 6 months ago

Surely the speed on Sprint's network blows away the AT&T? I'm sure the AT&T network is "good enough" for lots of things, but tell me you can't "feel" the difference?

dave · 6 months ago

Another reason not to be depressed! Thanks. :-)

Steve Kudelko · 6 months ago

Thanks Dave. I got tethering installed (but haven't been able to test it yet since I drove away with my MacBook Pro on the roof of my car (yes, seriously).... but have you tried getting the MMS to work? I got the settings from the site, but don't see anywhere in the iPhone UI to enter them?

dave · 6 months ago

I once left the keys on the roof of my BMW in the San Jose airport
parking lot, flew to LA, came back and they were still there.

I have not tried MMS but I will. :-)

Peter B Marks · 6 months ago

I think we'll regard tethering as a technology we can't understand how we lived without. (Until every device has wireless broadband build in).

howardweaver · 5 months ago

Any ideas about what happens now that iPhone 3.01 breaks tethering at AT&T?

Noah Gray · 4 months ago

Ok, it's been a while since this post was made. How have people found this to work for them over the past month or so? One issue: I've successfully tethered and I'm on standard AT&T plans. Are there extra charges associated with this such that AT&T will hunt me DOWN???? Also, I will be traveling to Europe; if I have an international dataplan, I assume that all I have to do is install the configuration for whichever country I am in and I will get the same results, no? Any experience with this out there???

It works exceptionally well, BTW.

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