[Kraetos]

Have an iPhone? Live in the US? Have a Mac? Want to tether your iPhone?

Easy: Activate tethering on a US iPhone

Enjoy

[jdcfsu]

Awesome! I will be playing with this later when I get a free moment.

[chucker]

No need to install a pre-release of iTunes. Just type in Terminal:

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.

[Yontsey]

That's awesome! Thanks for the tip guys. Quick and painless to set up.

[kieran]

Worked just fine for me.

Using it now with my MBA.

[pscates2.0]

Has Quagmire seen this? He's having a bit of trouble...

[kieran]

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.

[Quagmire]

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

[EmC]

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.

[Jerman]

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.

[kieran]

People have done tethering with NetShare on the original iPhone, so it's obviously a software block, not a hardware limitation.

[SpecMode]

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.

[Jerman]

Originally Posted by kieran People have done tethering with NetShare on the original iPhone, so it's obviously a software block, not a hardware limitation.

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.

[turtle2472]

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.

[Jerman]

Originally Posted by turtle2472 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.

I seem to have read something about this... Let the iPhone call her voicemail number and let it cycle through the messages a couple of times. That seemed to have restored it for someone. I know that was a bit vague, I will see if I can find the link here in a few minutes. But definitely try that before you restore

***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!

[sunrain]

Neato. Works great. I'll be using mine sparingly in case I'm being charged .25 a kilobyte.

[nikstar101]

Ohh i wonder if someone has the O2 (UK) file thingy so i can get that too work.....

[Kraetos]

Originally Posted by SpecMode 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.

Eh, people have been using NetShare and jailbroken tethering for more than a year, including myself. My bill has never been affected by the extra data use.

[kieran]

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.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by kieran I've not heard that there was a way of distinguishing where the information was going to.

They can't tell it's tethered, but they do, for instance, know that there's not a bittorrent client for the iPhone.

[kieran]

Originally Posted by Dave They can't tell it's tethered, but they do, for instance, know that there's not a bittorrent client for the iPhone.

Yeah, I know that much.

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.

[MBHockey]

Originally Posted by kieran Yeah, I know that much. 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.

That's exactly why they want to charge so much for it.

[Wyatt]

Originally Posted by Dave They can't tell it's tethered, but they do, for instance, know that there's not a bittorrent client for the iPhone.

But AT&T (so far) isn't charging people extra to have jailbroken phones, so there's no way they know you're using your laptop.

For example, there is a BT client for jailbroken iPhones.

[ghoti]

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.

[Partial]

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?

[kieran]

I think BT might tip them off that you're tethering.

[ghoti]

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.

[theelmerguy]

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?

[kieran]

Technically, it's an unlimited plan, but I'm sure AT&T has a number in their head.

[theelmerguy]

I'm going to make a POLL...