Ok, so I have a question....
Be gentle with me folks - this is my first post and I'm kinda a novice when it comes to these things, although I do program VBA in Access for a living, so I'm not totally stupid. I haven't even begun to explore jailbreaking though, and I think I have a rather unique situtation, so I'm hoping for your help.
I have an iPhone 3g. Not the 3gS, but the older 3g. It is still normally connected through iTunes, except that I stopped updating the OS with 3.0.1, and I setup tethering with BenM.at (http://help.benm.at/help.php) (truth is, I upgraded to 3.1 like a dummy, lost the ability to tether and figured out how to downgrade again to 3.0.1). Ever since, I haven't upgraded the OS firmware because I really like the ability to tether directly to my MacBook Pro.
Now I'm thinking about jailbreaking my iPhone because I was interested in a piece of software to make it a WiFi hotspot (to allow the iPad to have internet access through the 3G network). I still have a grandfather plan with AT&T, so I have unlimited data access.
All that being said, do you guys know if I'll still be able to tether once I jailbreak? Can I still jailbreak with such an old OS? Or should I just give it all up and forget about it? I'm not upset about using iTunes and the Apps store, but I do like the tethering aspect, and I don't want to lose that - it's worth cash to me to be able to keep it, if you know what I mean.
Thanks in advance for your ideas!
Be gentle with me folks - this is my first post and I'm kinda a novice when it comes to these things, although I do program VBA in Access for a living, so I'm not totally stupid. I haven't even begun to explore jailbreaking though, and I think I have a rather unique situtation, so I'm hoping for your help.
I have an iPhone 3g. Not the 3gS, but the older 3g. It is still normally connected through iTunes, except that I stopped updating the OS with 3.0.1, and I setup tethering with BenM.at (http://help.benm.at/help.php) (truth is, I upgraded to 3.1 like a dummy, lost the ability to tether and figured out how to downgrade again to 3.0.1). Ever since, I haven't upgraded the OS firmware because I really like the ability to tether directly to my MacBook Pro.
Now I'm thinking about jailbreaking my iPhone because I was interested in a piece of software to make it a WiFi hotspot (to allow the iPad to have internet access through the 3G network). I still have a grandfather plan with AT&T, so I have unlimited data access.
All that being said, do you guys know if I'll still be able to tether once I jailbreak? Can I still jailbreak with such an old OS? Or should I just give it all up and forget about it? I'm not upset about using iTunes and the Apps store, but I do like the tethering aspect, and I don't want to lose that - it's worth cash to me to be able to keep it, if you know what I mean.
Thanks in advance for your ideas!