US and some UK iPhone users have to pay $25-$30 a month to enable tethering. $15 one time saves a lot of money. Also people who are on AT&T's unlimited data plan would have to switch to a 4GB plan to enable tethering at all.
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iTether App Offers Internet Tethering On Your iPhone for One Time Fee
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US and some UK iPhone users have to pay $25-$30 a month to enable tethering. $15 one time saves a lot of money. Also people who are on AT&T's unlimited data plan would have to switch to a 4GB plan to enable tethering at all.
A lot of good points here.
I'm kind of deciding if it's worth it, because if they pull it you are out $15 and the company needs to stay afloat for this app to work, which is a problem for me. I'm wondering if it's worth it, even for a year. For those reasons, I think $15 is a bit steep for something that can be pulled easily and with so many dependencies.
I am on ATT's unlimited plan, grandfathered from back in 2008 with the iPhone 3G.
I'm kind of deciding if it's worth it, because if they pull it you are out $15 and the company needs to stay afloat for this app to work, which is a problem for me. I'm wondering if it's worth it, even for a year. For those reasons, I think $15 is a bit steep for something that can be pulled easily and with so many dependencies.
I am on ATT's unlimited plan, grandfathered from back in 2008 with the iPhone 3G.
Well, the PC app worked fine for me when I was booted in boot camp... but now in OS X it is not useable, the app keeps crashing within 5 seconds in 10.7.2...
Apparently you can only have tether for the iphone or the blackberry installed on a single Mac but not both. One App overwrites the other ones network prefs.
Fail for tether on this one.
Fail for tether on this one.
Depends on Windows/OSX.. I would google some network utility that can read your ports and see the incoming/outgoing connectons.. look for the same IP being used for everything.
Some people believe the earth is flat; and you should not believe them either. Their "servers" (I'm starting to think it is just one) are not able to handle simple 1.5MB downloads and license checks but are easily handling the huge amount of data that everyone using and testing the software have generated? C'mon now.
Regardless they are not funneling data through their servers (easy to trace). The company has also stated they are looking to remove the license check at startup. If and when that happens there won't be any dependence on contacting their servers at all, aside from possible version checking (permitted for iOS apps if desired).
But as of right now this is the cleanest, if not only, way to tether from an iPhone without jailbreaking or paying the carrier extra for the same data. On the iPhone 4S it is about the only option. I endured handylight last year before a jb was released for the i4 and it was barely usable (to the point that I just said forget it--SOCKS proxy ugh).
Michael
I know I'm in the minority, but all this stuff just leaves too much to chance.
If I'm someplace where tethering my iPhone is the only way for me to connect, then it is an important event and I have to make sure it really works.
I'm just going to keep paying AT&T for its legitimate tethering option to make sure that the rug doesn't get pulled out from under me when Apple changes its mind about the advisability of these applications.
If I'm someplace where tethering my iPhone is the only way for me to connect, then it is an important event and I have to make sure it really works.
I'm just going to keep paying AT&T for its legitimate tethering option to make sure that the rug doesn't get pulled out from under me when Apple changes its mind about the advisability of these applications.
Not all of us are lucky enough to have it in our contracts. My carrier, O2, want extra £££ to enable tethering. Given that I'm paying a contract that includes xxGB of data, I don't want to pay extra for tethering. I want my data to be data - whether it comes from my Laptop or my iPhone is irrelevant, xxGB = xxGB regardless of which device it is.
Have you not read half of the posts in this thread? The US carriers charge extra to tether. Which should be illegal when people have tiered plans. I can understand the reasoning with an unlimited plan.
At least AT&T gives an additional 2GB with the $20 tethering fee. They used to simply charge $20 extra and you would get nothing for it, other than the ability to tether.
I can see the use for iTether, though I don't have a need for it. I would much rather tether over WiFi so I can get our iPads online if we are traveling. I rarely take a laptop with us anymore.
First post and it is THIS???
Don't fall for it, folks. Handy Light is nothing like iTether.
I suspect iTether doesn't need to shill in forums either.
Michael
Coincidentally, I live in Missouri, the Show Me State. If it's so easy, someone around here should settle the discussion once and for all.
Remember, they may have a web server to host activations/image downloads of the software, but there may be infrastructure behind the scenes, too.
That's my biggest gripe here, we just don't know HOW they're doing it.
I’m posting this through iTether. Finally was able to download the Mac application using an alternative download site posted here.
Here’s a few things that I have learned so far:
1. The traffic is not proxied via any other source. I ran Wireshark and saw multiple source IPs talking to the IP assigned to a newly created interface on my Mac.
2. The IP my Mac received was 192.168.25.100. This means that iTether turns the iPhone into a router, not a modem. The computer connected to the iPhone receives a private IP.
3. Did a speed test on iTether: 5.17 Mbps down / 0.93 Mbps up. The same test with PDANet from the same location yielded: 3.76 Mbps down / 0.33 Mbps up. All in all, iTether seems a lot faster than PDANet even without a speed test; that is while the Tether.app is running. Unfortunately it crashes a lot.
4. I was able to use Citrix receiver on my Mac to connect to my company. This is good.
5. I could not use the IPSec VPN client built into Mac OS to connect to a remote Cisco VPN device. This works fine with PDANet.
6. The Mac application crashed every few seconds until I rebooted the Mac. After the reboot, the application continues to crash occasionally. I have noticed that if you first start the Mac application and then the iPhone application, the Mac application crashes a lot less.
All in all, the only reason to get the iTether at this point is for a very casual Internet access when you are in a pinch or just buy it hoping that the company will improve the Mac application and will add functionality to the iPhone application in the future. Other than that, if you are sticking with the jailbreak, PDANet is in a completely different class, and iTether does not come close. However, iTether is promising because it is providing significantly faster speeds.
I have just renewed my AT&T contract with unlimited data and received two iPhone 4S. They are in their boxes waiting for the jailbreak to come out while I am continuing to use my iPhone 3GS’es. I purchased iTether this morning hoping that I could activate my iPhones 4S before the jailbreak comes out because the only really compelling reason remaining for me to jailbreak my iPhones is the ability to tether on the unlimited plan. After having spent a few hours on iTether this morning I have realized this is not a replacement for PDANet. At least not yet. One of the main reasons for it is the lack of IPSec VPN support over the iTether connection.
Here’s a few things that I have learned so far:
1. The traffic is not proxied via any other source. I ran Wireshark and saw multiple source IPs talking to the IP assigned to a newly created interface on my Mac.
2. The IP my Mac received was 192.168.25.100. This means that iTether turns the iPhone into a router, not a modem. The computer connected to the iPhone receives a private IP.
3. Did a speed test on iTether: 5.17 Mbps down / 0.93 Mbps up. The same test with PDANet from the same location yielded: 3.76 Mbps down / 0.33 Mbps up. All in all, iTether seems a lot faster than PDANet even without a speed test; that is while the Tether.app is running. Unfortunately it crashes a lot.
4. I was able to use Citrix receiver on my Mac to connect to my company. This is good.
5. I could not use the IPSec VPN client built into Mac OS to connect to a remote Cisco VPN device. This works fine with PDANet.
6. The Mac application crashed every few seconds until I rebooted the Mac. After the reboot, the application continues to crash occasionally. I have noticed that if you first start the Mac application and then the iPhone application, the Mac application crashes a lot less.
All in all, the only reason to get the iTether at this point is for a very casual Internet access when you are in a pinch or just buy it hoping that the company will improve the Mac application and will add functionality to the iPhone application in the future. Other than that, if you are sticking with the jailbreak, PDANet is in a completely different class, and iTether does not come close. However, iTether is promising because it is providing significantly faster speeds.
I have just renewed my AT&T contract with unlimited data and received two iPhone 4S. They are in their boxes waiting for the jailbreak to come out while I am continuing to use my iPhone 3GS’es. I purchased iTether this morning hoping that I could activate my iPhones 4S before the jailbreak comes out because the only really compelling reason remaining for me to jailbreak my iPhones is the ability to tether on the unlimited plan. After having spent a few hours on iTether this morning I have realized this is not a replacement for PDANet. At least not yet. One of the main reasons for it is the lack of IPSec VPN support over the iTether connection.
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You would be fine. Unless they caught you. I think if they do catch you they give you a warning before they switch your plans. I may be wrong there though.
This gets asked every page.
Let me break it down for those whom keep asking:
For iPhone users in the USA, using AT&T, they increase our bill $20-$30 per month to use the built-in hotspot. In addition to that, they will permanently take away our "unlimited" plan if we do enable the hot-spot.
That is $240 to $360 per year to use the data we are already paying for with the built-in iOS hotspot.
This app offers a similar functionality for a one-time fee of $15.
Understand, now?
Tether Iphone MAC application error
Is anyone else getting an error message trying to install the Mac application on their computer? I keep getting "the disk image couldn't be opened" - reason "not recognized" - Any help would be appreciated! Thanks,
Is anyone else getting an error message trying to install the Mac application on their computer? I keep getting "the disk image couldn't be opened" - reason "not recognized" - Any help would be appreciated! Thanks,
Yes. I've gotten this error twice.
Perhaps someone can put a working DMG in the cloud/torrent for us to use? Pretty please!?
The Mac app crashes because of the verification right, due to the servers getting hammered? So, when the servers stabilize later on when people stop going crazy on them, and if they were to update the app so it supports wi-fi and stops necessitating the verification, this would be a perfect tether app is what I've gathered.
If they're right and Apple keeps the app online hopefully we can get an update, although despite their claims I don't understand how Apple would keep them online (though at the same time I don't know how Apple approved it in the first place, unless there's another band of "pirates" within Apple that still take to heart the "think different" mantra).
If they're right and Apple keeps the app online hopefully we can get an update, although despite their claims I don't understand how Apple would keep them online (though at the same time I don't know how Apple approved it in the first place, unless there's another band of "pirates" within Apple that still take to heart the "think different" mantra).
All courageous unlimited users who are forging ahead, please keep us posted if you get a warning from AT&T. Hopefully, they won't recognize the tethering. 
Incomplete Download
You have an incomplete download, so your MAC does not recognize the file to open it. It should be over a meg, check the size.
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You have an incomplete download, so your MAC does not recognize the file to open it. It should be over a meg, check the size.
This.All courageous unlimited users who are forging ahead, please keep us posted if you get a warning from AT&T. Hopefully, they won't recognize the tethering.
When I was using MyWi (on grandfathered unlimited) I finally got the text and physical mail from AT&T informing they would switch me if I continued. I picked up this app, downloaded the Mac-side software from the iTether site without any problem and gave it a test:
That would do the trick, but now to see what AT&T has to say about all this.
FWIW, the Mac app I have (MD5 (Tether-iPhone.dmg) = 08ca79ff602ced4be85a65a5b30817e6) has not crashed once, either on multiple launches or when I did my testing.