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iTether App Offers Internet Tethering On Your iPhone for One Time Fee
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Little Snitch hasn't reported any network activity to/from my Mac that is unexpected as a direct result of this. Obviously, I can't be sure that the iOS half isn't doing something bad, since I can't directly monitor my iPhone-to-AT&T traffic in any way. (Hrm, since this app does support connecting over WiFi, I'll have to try a packet sniffer to see if anything other than what I'm doing from the computer is going through...)
bit the bullet and went ahead and got it anyway before its gone. I already have Handylight but this looks a little easier. Hopefully they can update it or do something so it works with the iPad though not holding my breath as it will probably be pulled shortly.
Works on iPad 2 +3G
I just tried it with an iPad 2 with 3G and it works! I am on the Telus network in Canada though. Kinda lame that you need to be connected through USB - wifi hotspot would have been nice. I guess it is only the first version.
I just tried it with an iPad 2 with 3G and it works! I am on the Telus network in Canada though. Kinda lame that you need to be connected through USB - wifi hotspot would have been nice. I guess it is only the first version.
I can't actually see the software details on the website because it's down, but it appears that Tether is for Intel only. Not trying to state the obvious, but I figured a tiny simple app like this might be universal for PPC+Intel.
So mine worked fine up until now. Now I'm getting that, too. That's a big downside of "server-side authentication each boot". I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt right now and assume that their servers are just overloaded. But if it continues, I'm definitely going to ask Apple for a refund...
Nothing more than a paid promo to lure people in purchasing such crappy Apps..shame on you guys
Gotta be wary of 3rd party download links.
But I can verify this link: http://www.box.com/s/hbay0h9ilazrjfj50uf0
has the same md5 checksum as the copy I downloaded from tether.com
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I just bought and am scared to use it!! LOL! Watch as soon as I start using Big Red will send me a message! Great App for when am on trips!!!
Am I missing something or is this app not worse than the since iOS 4 built in "personal hotspot" feature which allows you to even create a WEP secured Wifi network for up to 5 devices as well as Bluetooth and USB sharing of the iPhone Data Network?!?
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It installs itself as a network driver. Not too surprising that they wouldn't put the effort into developing one for PPC.
Update to the license issue: Just rebooted my iPhone, and I no longer get "Expired", now I get "License: Failed". Looks like overloaded servers to me. (Likely if you HAD been able to connect, then couldn't, it defaulted to "Expired".)
Yes in fact I did miss those comments. But now that I have read them I am now formally shutting up
Looks like app authenticates against their server on each run. So while their server is down, the app doesn't work.
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Yeah, WIFI hotspot would have been great, along with background use. But I doubt that we will see any updates beyond this first version.
I've always heard that Apple has an automatic API rejection system in place that will auto reject any apps that use undocumented APIs. My guess is that they found a way to do this that doesn't violate this system or somehow masked it so that it could slip through. Maybe they found a way to do it with current, legit APIs? Or did they have a person on the inside? lol
Theoretically, won't it work forever if we didn't update our Iphones? Or are updates mandatory?