I blame AT&T, there the ones that want to charge for tethering. iPhone's in other parts of the world have this feature included with their service.
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Flashlight App Sneaks Tethering Into App Store [Pulled]
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Got It To Work In Windows 7!!
1) Follow instructions in Appshopper website
2) Manually set the IP for your laptop's adapter to something in the 13.37.13.xx range (xx = any number 0-255 except 37) and set subnet mask to 255.0.0.0
3) ****DOWNLOAD SAFARI FOR WINDOWS****
4) Change the settings under preferences>advanced>Proxies (click change settings) then click on the LAN settings button. Uncheck automatically detect settings, check Use a proxy... and click advanced. Uncheck use same proxy server for all protocols and erase all the numbers on HTTP, secure & ftp. Enter 13.37.13.37 and port 1337 in the Socks line. Click ok
5) Browse the internet!
Thanks to the developer and congrats to those who were able to download it
1) Follow instructions in Appshopper website
2) Manually set the IP for your laptop's adapter to something in the 13.37.13.xx range (xx = any number 0-255 except 37) and set subnet mask to 255.0.0.0
3) ****DOWNLOAD SAFARI FOR WINDOWS****
4) Change the settings under preferences>advanced>Proxies (click change settings) then click on the LAN settings button. Uncheck automatically detect settings, check Use a proxy... and click advanced. Uncheck use same proxy server for all protocols and erase all the numbers on HTTP, secure & ftp. Enter 13.37.13.37 and port 1337 in the Socks line. Click ok
5) Browse the internet!
Thanks to the developer and congrats to those who were able to download it
The developer needs to release the source code. If he did, all developers could have tethering on their non-jailbroken iPhones! Not possible to kill switch that!
My guess is that Nick Lee's already using the freely available iProxy source code.
quite impressive.
it seems to work like a charm.
i'll refrain too use it until it's clear it's safe and there aren't any additional 'easter eggs' in the software.
apple should thank this kid for exposing a weakness with a program that is not malware (hopefully).
we'll see how long it lasts.
it seems to work like a charm.
i'll refrain too use it until it's clear it's safe and there aren't any additional 'easter eggs' in the software.
apple should thank this kid for exposing a weakness with a program that is not malware (hopefully).
we'll see how long it lasts.
No luck getting it to work with IE on Windows 7. I tried a number of things. I can ping 13.37.13.37, but no internet connectivity.
Hmm.....I think apple will pull this app and enable the kill switch for this one.
On another note, AT&T should think about allowing us to tether without charging an extra $20/mo. I believe that will stop a lot of this "getting around" things. in order to tether you have to switch to the new plans and pay an extra $20 without any additional data added to your account? BS...that $20 should at least come with an additional 2GB a month (for a total of 4GB). Otherwise leave it at 2GB and let us tether for free (of course we will go over the 2GB limit anyways, then charge us).
Just my thoughts on the manner. I will be using this app and it does work btw.
On another note, AT&T should think about allowing us to tether without charging an extra $20/mo. I believe that will stop a lot of this "getting around" things. in order to tether you have to switch to the new plans and pay an extra $20 without any additional data added to your account? BS...that $20 should at least come with an additional 2GB a month (for a total of 4GB). Otherwise leave it at 2GB and let us tether for free (of course we will go over the 2GB limit anyways, then charge us).
Just my thoughts on the manner. I will be using this app and it does work btw.
it's still up, but the item is no longer available
Yep.
Question: if this were to become available on a file sharing site (come you guys, help us who are late to the party!), is it possible to get it onto a nonjalbroken iPhone?
Found with a simple google search, this:
http://code.google.com/p/iphone-socks-proxy/
and this:
http://wiki.github.com/tcurdt/iProxy/configuring-iproxy
I fully agree with this. It's bogus to charge extra to tether without either offering more data to use or just letting it come with the data plan. Since you are already paying per data usage, it should not matter how you are using it. I could see justifying an extra charge if it was unlimited cause then they could argue you would be using more data than if you did not tether.
Thanks for the reply. I figured it out. I had the port(s) block with little snitch. Once opened, worked like exactly as described.