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How to Unofficially Tether via wifi using your smartphone

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aohus

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Would I be able to tether my smartphone to the ipad through bluetooth? Does it support data over bluetooth?

What about tethering for instance, my blackberry to the wifi on my ipad?

Assuming that the ipad is fully jailbroken, would this be possible?

Thanks in advanced.
 
aohus said:
Would I be able to tether my smartphone to the ipad through bluetooth? Does it support data over bluetooth?

What about tethering for instance, my blackberry to the wifi on my ipad?

Assuming that the ipad is fully jailbroken, would this be possible?

Thanks in advanced.
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noone knows until it's jailbroken. You can tether right now via wi-fi. I do it from my moto droid and it's works perfectly. I don't know that BB has a wi-fi output app that doesn't require you to install a smaller piece on the tethered computer.
 
citi said:
noone knows until it's jailbroken. You can tether right now via wi-fi. I do it from my moto droid and it's works perfectly. I don't know that BB has a wi-fi output app that doesn't require you to install a smaller piece on the tethered computer.
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apologies, but how to tether via wifi? is there a particular app i need? thanks in advanced.

btw im using a blackberry storm
 
aohus said:
Would I be able to tether my smartphone to the ipad through bluetooth? Does it support data over bluetooth?
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As a non-jailbroken device, if you look at Apple's information page it informs you that on the iPad:

Supports Bluetooth peer-to-peer connectivity for applications. See this article for additional information. Internet tethering is not supported.
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You're making no sense... Bluetooth tethering over WiFi? What?

You can't officially tether anything to the iPad, however if you have a phone you can make into a WiFi hotspot (for example, most recent Symbian smartphones can do this with the right app) there's nothing stopping you from doing that, but for actual tethering you'll have to wait until the jailbreak is launched to the public.
 
0dev said:
You're making no sense... Bluetooth tethering over WiFi? What?

You can't officially tether anything to the iPad, however if you have a phone you can make into a WiFi hotspot (for example, most recent Symbian smartphones can do this with the right app) there's nothing stopping you from doing that, but for actual tethering you'll have to wait until the jailbreak is launched to the public.
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Let me clarify. Please read carefully before stating 'I am making no sense.'

I asked if tethering via bluetooth is possible.

Then I asked if tethering via wifi is possible.

What I'm trying to figure out now as this moment is, how do I *unofficially* tether my blackberry device to my ipad via wifi.

Thanks in advanced to whomever can answer this question. Is there an app i need for the blackberry device itself? Thanks.
 
aohus said:
Let me clarify. Please read carefully before stating 'I am making no sense.'

I asked if tethering via bluetooth is possible.
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Not as a stock iPad. See my post two above this. There is no Bluetooth profile for it and, as the iPhones are the same way, they'll never put a profile in for it.

A jailbreak may be able to modify that but that will be a while coming.

Then I asked if tethering via wifi is possible.
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Tethering via wifi is always an option. I have a jailbroken iPhone 3G running MyWi and my other iPhone and my Macbook Pro can connect to it and use it with no issues.
 
aohus said:
Let me clarify. Please read carefully before stating 'I am making no sense.'

I asked if tethering via bluetooth is possible.

Then I asked if tethering via wifi is possible.

What I'm trying to figure out now as this moment is, how do I *unofficially* tether my blackberry device to my ipad via wifi.

Thanks in advanced to whomever can answer this question. Is there an app i need for the blackberry device itself? Thanks.
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Ahh I see.

I don't think BlackBerries can become hotspots I'm afraid. I could be wrong, but last time I checked, there was no app for it and the WiFi hardware inside BlackBerries isn't capable of it. However, I think there was some seperate hardware you could buy for $20 that'd do it.
 
My wife just received a a blackberry curve from work and was wonder the samething. Does anyone know if there is an app available in the blackberry store that would allow for tethering to the iPad? Thanks in advance.
 
citi said:
noone knows until it's jailbroken. You can tether right now via wi-fi. I do it from my moto droid and it's works perfectly. I don't know that BB has a wi-fi output app that doesn't require you to install a smaller piece on the tethered computer.
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Which app are you using on your droid to tether? Does it cost extra? I'm thinking about getting a droid and am VERY curious about this.
 
peafour said:
Which app are you using on your droid to tether? Does it cost extra? I'm thinking about getting a droid and am VERY curious about this.
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Pretty sure you can root your Droid and install an application called "WiFi Tether." There are others too.
 
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