AT&T Enables Wireless Mobile Hotspot for iOS 4.3 Users

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Um, I have been using this for a while.

Here is proof.

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/11715887/

Not really proof that you've been using it.
It's just proof that you posted two screenshots last month.

Besides the fact anyone can name a wifi access point "Iphone 4", there's really no way you can truly prove the screenshots are of your phone,
(And neither does it matter since you can't get your cookies or gold stars over the internet.)

 

[RalfTheDog]

It's named the same as your phone. Mine isn't "iPhone" as I've named it something else. But you're correct that you can't change it on the phone itself. You'd have to do it in iTunes.

What if someone else in the room has their phones named, "3RxfgY^21,,.?" I am sure it is a very common name.

Question I asked poorly before and did not get an answer, for those who are using WiFi tethering, How long can you use WiFi tethering before you drain the battery on an iP4? I might decide to play with it, but I don't want to get stuck with a dead iPhone. Can you do WiFi and USB tethering at the same time? If yes, you could plug your iPhone into your laptop to keep it charged and use WiFi for your iPad.

 

[Les Kern]

More evidence that competition in market benefits everyone.

It would be nice if this would be available without having to have a tethering contract, but I doubt that will happen.

"Tethering contract" ?!?!?!
Getting tired of the constant "new features" that do nothing more then suck more money out of my wallet. Right now I pay almost 200 a month for three phones and my home phone, only one with a data plan. my iPhone.
Now they want MORE to use a service I already PAY for with my UNLIMITED iPhone contract? I've pretty much had it. These are blood sucking rat-bastards.

 

[kirk26]

I set up my Mobile Hotspot on AT&T the day that iOS 4.3 beta 3 was released. Been working fine for me for weeks...not sure why this is "news."

We are sooooo sorry! We bow down to your greatness. We should have known that you already had this feature with the beta. Oh mighty master, I did not have the beta so this is news to me. How ever will you forgive us??

 

[Chip NoVaMac]

Seems like I have been overpaying AT&T for my data usage based on my data usage. Been hanging on to my unlimited plan; but now see that a tethering/hotspot plan would do me just fine it seems. Would like to get rid of my data plan for my iPad, and the hotspot feature would be great since tethering does support the iPad.

What would be nice to see from AT&T for what I now see myself as a low data user is rollover data like their rollover minutes. Such an benefit would be nice for times when cable TV goes out or when on travel.

 

[inolan]

Verizon>ATT

No surprise that the ATT iPhone is connected to the EDGE network. Edge isn't fast enough to support the phone, let alone multiple Wi-Fi devices. Jeez, ATT. Get it together.. you've been way too spoiled by iPhone.

 

[jbuck777]

I am canadian, I am familiar with the rates as I live in Canada. I know the Canadian telecom industry is awful, rates are terrible in comparison to the world. South of the border does not translate to the world. Get a grip, look outside the box. Have you seen their 3g modems with products like TurboHub / RocketHub, 60$ for 10gb of usage for a cable alternative. Robbery....

At what point did I compare our rates to the worlds?
Let me know when you come up with a proper answer.

You know you have it bad when people that buy their milk in bags are gloating about how much better they have it.

Is this where I'm supposed to let you in on the secret about how us Canadians manage to connect to the internet via plugging our cat6 into the ice?

Try visiting a place before making a statement about it.

 

[rjohnstone]

No surprise that the ATT iPhone is connected to the EDGE network. Edge isn't fast enough to support the phone, let alone multiple Wi-Fi devices. Jeez, ATT. Get it together.. you've been way too spoiled by iPhone.

Way to contrast and compare.

 

[appleapplefan]

Way to contrast and compare.

And the latest news says this hotspot can work on WCDMA iPhone only if your iPhone has updated to the new iOS 4.3, which enables iphone users to share their net with all their friends in a more simple way.

 

[southernpaws]

and as I said, Canadian service providers do not charge extra for tethering, its included with your data plan. Data is Data whether you tether or not.

Obviously your point doesn't apply to his situation. Unless you're suggesting a move to Canada to address his point.

 

[southernpaws]

My point is charging extra to tether makes absolutely no sense. Your basically giving the provider free money. Nothing changes from a technical standpoint

So you're making the same point as the person you were addressing. In normal parlance, this is expressed by "+1." The drawback would be you dont get to brag about how your cell carrier doesn't operate that way and act like it's a matter of national pride. It's not US v. Canada here. It's Att v. Rogers. But if you want to draw a false comparison to feel better about yourself, go ahead I guess.

Your ignorant.

The rules of English also apply in Canada I assume, make the irony of this statement delicious.

 

[jegbook]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_6 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8E200 Safari/6533.18.5)

I use about 4gb in a week

Wow!

How do you do that? Seriously.

I've had my 3Gs for about 11 months and my total cellular data usage is 495MB sent and 2.6GB received. I'm on the unlimited plan as that's all there was when I got my phone and just haven't bothered to change.

I don't think my total Internet usage is 4GB/week even counting personal and work computers. That's a lot of data.

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148a Safari/6533.18.5)



What are you guys smoking? 25GB a week isn't very hard to do. Don't you have blu-ray players with HULUPlus or Netflix? I have three Netflix enabled devices in my house not counting my iPhone, the Mac pro, or the other two laptops. A show or movie every night easily pushes the 30GB alone, and that doesn't include surfing YouTube or ESPN3 or ftping huge video files up and down to the web for my biz. And now we're talking all about Apples cloud computing and backups and he servers. 25GB Could easily be every day in that environment.

Do you leave your couch?

I was going to say the same thing. How are people using 10GB+ over 3g in a month? I watch 1 video over 3g and I'm tried of waiting and instead go find a hotspot. 3g is still so slow that doing anything other than browsing and email feels like a complete waste of time.

I reckon it depends where you are.

This past weekend on I95 in NY (south of Albany) streaming Netflix on a 3Gs and a 4 worked really well. I was surprised and impressed. Maybe a hiccup or two in a 40min episode. Even plugged the audio into the car stereo and it was definitely stereo sound.

It felt kinda surreal.

 

[Chip NoVaMac]

I reckon it depends where you are.

This past weekend on I95 in NY (south of Albany) streaming Netflix on a 3Gs and a 4 worked really well. I was surprised and impressed. Maybe a hiccup or two in a 40min episode. Even plugged the audio into the car stereo and it was definitely stereo sound.

It felt kinda surreal.

Never was happy with Netflix over 3G on either my iPhone 4 or my iPad compared to the ABC player app on my iPad here in the DC area.

Between both devices I have plenty of room to load movies to watch on a trip, or when bad weather threatens....

 

[nsayer]

What if someone else in the room has their phones named, "3RxfgY^21,,.?" I am sure it is a very common name.

Or even, perhaps, Bobby Tables.

 

[jegbook]

Never was happy with Netflix over 3G on either my iPhone 4 or my iPad compared to the ABC player app on my iPad here in the DC area.

Between both devices I have plenty of room to load movies to watch on a trip, or when bad weather threatens....

That could certainly be true about Netflix over 3G in DC area. I live in DC and AT&T coverage is pretty thorough, but not especially good quality. Since I live and work in the city and only have a 30min commute, I don't do any streaming over 3G, just WiFi. But the 3G data access in general ranges from "works" to "WTF I have 5 bars what am I waiting for?!"

 

[George Knighton]

That could certainly be true about Netflix over 3G in DC area. I live in DC and AT&T coverage is pretty thorough, but not especially good quality. Since I live and work in the city and only have a 30min commute, I don't do any streaming over 3G, just WiFi. But the 3G data access in general ranges from "works" to "WTF I have 5 bars what am I waiting for?!"

We definitely do not have enough backhaul in the NoVA/DC area....