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Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

Noah Gray — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:09:25 -0000

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.

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

joelasaro — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:45:37 -0000

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

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

howardweaver — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:47:59 -0000

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

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

Peter B Marks — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:52:47 -0000

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).

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

howardweaver — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:09:21 -0000

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.

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

Nick Molnar — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:24:00 -0000

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

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:57:15 -0000

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. :-)

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

Steven Kudelko — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:51:54 -0000

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?

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

Joshua Francis Whalen — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:37:21 -0000

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.co...

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

dave — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:59:18 -0000

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

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

Mark Dzmura — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:53:23 -0000

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?

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

Erik S. — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:35:50 -0000

That required a jailbreak.

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

Joshua Francis Whalen — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:43:45 -0000

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.

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

marshal sandler — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:43:10 -0000

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

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

dave — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:56:16 -0000

Good point. I feel better now. :-)

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

Chuck Shotton — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:50:31 -0000

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...

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

Chuck Shotton — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:45:18 -0000

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.

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

Chuck Shotton — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:44:09 -0000

Woot!

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

Pete — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:28:24 -0000

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.

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

Guest — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:27:45 -0000

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?

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

Daniel — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:21:45 -0000

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.

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

dave — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:16:28 -0000

Oooh that's not good. :-(

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

Daniel — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:13:14 -0000

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 :)

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

Guest — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:38:50 -0000

Did you lose visual voicemail with the updated mobileconfig file?

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

dave — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:29:23 -0000

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