Lovable Bastard
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Boston-ish
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Have an iPhone? Live in the US? Have a Mac? Want to tether your iPhone?
Easy: Activate tethering on a US iPhone Enjoy |
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Veteran Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Florida
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Awesome! I will be playing with this later when I get a free moment.
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No need to install a pre-release of iTunes. Just type in Terminal:
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defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE …and relaunch iTunes. Now option-clicking "Check for Updates" will let you pick the .ipcc file. |
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*AD SPACE FOR SALE*
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Cleveland-ish, OH
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That's awesome! Thanks for the tip guys. Quick and painless to set up.
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@kk@pennytucker.social
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Worked just fine for me.
Using it now with my MBA. |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Has Quagmire seen this? He's having a bit of trouble...
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@kk@pennytucker.social
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Mine worked just fine.
Used the terminal command, then updated the carrier settings. I don't know if I'm having the call issues that Quag was having, but I guess I'll find out soon enough. No more Twitter. It's Mastodon now. |
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meh
Join Date: May 2004
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Yeah, this was the method that caused me those troubles.
I used this method to get tethering and it hasn't caused me problems. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=721946 giggity |
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Columbus, Georgia
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Mine is working fine. I hope they (Apple & AT&T) don't bork this. I would really like to be able to use this when I go back to work in August. Our internet filters block most everything now. Occasionally there are things on youTube that I would like to be able to show my classes.
What Adobe Updater‽ What‽ What‽ WHAT‽ |
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Siloam Springs, AR
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Well darn, I have been trying to get this working for a little while now, and found that others are saying the original iPhone does not support tethering. Was looking forward to finally being able to.
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@kk@pennytucker.social
Join Date: Jan 2005
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People have done tethering with NetShare on the original iPhone, so it's obviously a software block, not a hardware limitation.
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Wait what
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: El Dorado County, California
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Y'all might want to be careful not to overuse this while it's unsupported; there's always that chance that AT&T might have some way of distinguishing tethered data use from the phone itself, and determine that it falls outside your iPhone's data plan and thus charge you extra for it. Japanese cell providers, for example, are notorious for doing this, and lots of folks have ended up with the equivalent of thousands of dollars in data charges.
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Siloam Springs, AR
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Yeah, I used to use that when I kept it jailbroken. But when version 2.0 came out last year, I got tired of the hassle. But yeah, it's a shame that they are blocking it.
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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Doing the Terminal command and setting up tethering seems to have caused my wife's 3G to fail to connect with Visual Voicemail.
Seems I'll have to restore her phone now. Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Siloam Springs, AR
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***Edit*** Here is the link: http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost...5&postcount=79 And something that worked for another user: http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost...&postcount=242 A third: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=716133 Hope one of these can help! There's definitely a lot of info at the thread posted by Quagmire! Last edited by Jerman : 2009-06-18 at 01:08. |
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Veteran Member
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Portlandia
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Neato. Works great. I'll be using mine sparingly in case I'm being charged .25 a kilobyte.
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Ohh i wonder if someone has the O2 (UK) file thingy so i can get that too work.....
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Lovable Bastard
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Boston-ish
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@kk@pennytucker.social
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Yeah, I've had NetShare and have used it many times.
For all AT&T knows, all i'm doing os browsing on my iPhone. I've not heard that there was a way of distinguishing where the information was going to. No more Twitter. It's Mastodon now. |
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Ninja Editor
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Bay Area, CA
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@kk@pennytucker.social
Join Date: Jan 2005
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All I'm saying is, how does AT&T know that the iPhone isn't my only internet access? I could be using it all day for all of my internet needs. No more Twitter. It's Mastodon now. |
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skates=grafs
Join Date: May 2005
Location: New York
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Veteran Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Near Indianapolis
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For example, there is a BT client for jailbroken iPhones. |
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owner for sale by house
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Charlotte, NC
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It would be pretty easy to tell from the concurrent connections. Also the speed of going from one link to the next (and hopping back and forth between different websites) would give it away. I guess they just don't want to bother implementing it and dealing with the fallout if they actually do it. As long as only a small number of people tether/jailbreak without paying, it's not a big issue.
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Stallion
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Milwaukee
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With tethering, would I in theory be able to get rid of my 1Mbps internet connection and be satisfied? Can I use bit torrent over it?
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@kk@pennytucker.social
Join Date: Jan 2005
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I think BT might tip them off that you're tethering.
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owner for sale by house
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Charlotte, NC
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Do you mean officially, with payment, or with the current hack? Without paying for tethering, I guess the sheer volume of data will tip them off sooner or later. You're probably in the clear if you only use it now then, but detecting abnormal amounts of traffic is pretty easy.
I don't know what their upload is, but in principle there's no reason why BT wouldn't work. |
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Formerly “theelmerguy”
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Irvine, California
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JW, how much is considered more than "fair usage"?
>500MB/month? >1GB/month? >2GB/month? What are your average monthly data usages? What is considered a lot? I'm using about 100-125MB/month... is that very little? ALSO: If those rumors about capped data plans are true, what would you guess would be a likely cap for the lowest plan? What are other carriers around the world charging for capped data plans? |
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@kk@pennytucker.social
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Technically, it's an unlimited plan, but I'm sure AT&T has a number in their head.
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Formerly “theelmerguy”
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Irvine, California
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I'm going to make a POLL...
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