iPhone as Modem

I have a 3G and was telling this 17 yr. old kid that by fall you should be able to teather it to your laptop and he replied, "I can make it do it now for you".

 

The tethering feature has not yet been activated in the US. Apparently it is available in Europe but AT&T has not yet "turned it on" here in the US but supposedly will do in the fall. You have always been able to hack the iPhone and use it as a modem but as soon as you hack the phone you violate the warranty so if you really need to tether immediately do so with caution. There are several web sites where you can download the software to hack the phone.

 

http://www.krillr.com/blog/3DPQHBZ3/i-have-tethering-and-mms-on-my-iphone-and-yes-im-on-att

 

I have unlimited browsing with my iPhone (as in unlimited unlimited, not unlimited but with a 5GB limit ) and called up my provider in the UK to ask how to get this working. They wanted £20-£50 per month extra to activate it even though i have the unlimited browsing through my phone already. I can get 50MB per second broadband for that. No thanks.

 

No jailbreak required to tether on a 3G phone. It does work with bluetooth, but my Tiger install doesn't pick up the iphone as a networking device via USB.

Based on the performance, tethering is an emergency-only connectivity option for me.

 

3GS is supposedly quicker in general, and the USB tether is faster than bluetooth. Just saying for me on the older hardware combo (laptop and phone), I'd rather hunt down a wifi hotspot.

 

I have PdaNet on my jailbroken phone and tethering works really well. The speed is pretty good and would be suitable for regular use, but definitely not worth whatever AT&T is going to charge.

 

http://www.ismashphone.com/2009/06/activate-internet-tethering-now-on-iphone-os-30.html

I installed this on my Iphone. I only used it a couple times. It's almost as fast as my wireless connection at my house. I didn't use it that much until I get my first bill to make sure they don't F me with fees or other BS. But it does work.

 

Very cool workaround, posting this from my tethered laptop. I wonder how long until AT&T shuts this down.

 

I'm going to restore my phone to see if this works. The main reason I jailbroke was to get tethering.

 

I used that method without jail breaking and it works great. It really just installs a modified network version to the phone that has tethering enabled. Make sure when putting in that website that it is formatted exactly the same, that threw me the first couple times I tried it.

 

Posting from my iPhone tethered laptop. Easy as pie!

Has anyone gotten MMS to work by doing this? My VVM and Tethering are fine but no MMS so far.

 

Yeah, I couldn't figure that out, it said it should work, but after numerous resets like it says to do, it still doesn't work.

 

Yeah, the wireless connection was disabled while I connected to my phone via USB.

 

Yeah, I tested my speeds as well, full bars with 3G.

1600kbps over Bluetooth
2200kbps over USB

 

I checked my phone bill and it was the same as always, well within a few cents.

I was able to download the software so you can send MMS. The camera shows up now and now i'm able to send MMS text pictures.

 

Any chance you could PM a link, or post it here?

 

I used this link mostly:
http://www.krillr.com/blog/3DPQHBZ3/...-yes-im-on-att

I screwed around with this yesterday for about 2 hours off and on. I might have used some other websites, but mostly the kriller site. I also googled the code that you enter in the DOS screen. That brought up a few more websites that said basically the same thing. After I installed the everything the camera showed up on the Messages screen. I then tried to send a picture but stopped about 90% of the way, it would then fail. I ended up putting my sim card back into my blackberry and tried to call my voice mail. I wasn't able to access my VM, even though it was showing up on my att.com as a BB. I then put the sim back in my iphone and tried it one more time. Success.

One interesting note. The data plan isn't showing up on my online account, but I still have access to the web. hmmmmm

 

Alright, yeah for some reason it wouldn't let me install the new ATT profile, it was grayed out, oh well I am just happy with tethering, MMS will be out in a couple weeks anyway.