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iPod touch OS 3 Internet Tethering Not Available on Ipod Touch ?!?

the tethering requires a mobile network connection. It makes no sense to have a tether option for ipod because if it can connect wirelessly then so can your laptop/pc, the tethering is more for mobiles for them times when theres just no available wifi.

Macs have the ability to share internet connection with a touch, tethering is a one way thing I believe as in from the device to your pc/laptop, so if a mac is connected through ethernet is shares the connection wirelessly with whatever device.

partalos: note the link is for the iPhone not iPod Touch
 
partalos said:
Connect from the cable/bluetooth to the internet through my mac:

Share your Internet connection with your laptop with Internet tethering via Bluetooth or USB. http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/​
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You've got the wrong end of the stick (don't worry, lots of people seem to have done)

The tethering allows your Mac with no connection to the internet to connect via the iPhones 3g network coverage.

It does NOT allow your iPhone/iPod touch to connect to the internet via a cable connected to your Mac/PC

You've been able to share your Mac's wired connection with an iPhone/iPod touch forever by enabling internet sharing, ethernet->airport (on any airport enabled Mac) which essentially turns your Mac into a wireless network connection that the iPhone/iPod can connect to via WiFi
 
andybno1 said:
the tethering requires a mobile network connection. It makes no sense to have a tether option for ipod because if it can connect wirelessly then so can your laptop/pc, the tethering is more for mobiles for them times when theres just no available wifi.
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It makes sense, but in the opposite direction of tethering vs. the iPhone.

Say that you have an iPod touch, and your spouse has an iPhone. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to tether the iPod via BlueTooth through the iPhone, so you can both get online? Just as you can tether your laptop, except that the iPod is quite a bit lighter than even the MacBook Air.

(And if they do it right and use the Bluetooth PAN profile, then I can also tether my iPod through my Sony Ericsson phone....)
 
i've talked to 3 people recently who thought the touch uses att's network, you just cant use the phone feature..whatever that is suppose to me haha...

not sure why people are getting confused with the touch....
 
I have a laptop with mobile broadband. I might want iPod touch to tether to laptop. Is it possible without cables ?
 
/palmface

:eek:

Altho sometimes it would be nice for it to go the other way, tethering is being able to use the MOBILE CONNECTION on the PHONE on the Computer. :p
 
tucker61 said:
I have a laptop with mobile broadband. I might want iPod touch to tether to laptop. Is it possible without cables ?
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If your laptop has the ability to share it's internet connection then you can allow access to the mobile broadband via it's WiFi card.

In that case the laptop essentially becomes a WiFi router and you connect to it wirelessly from the iPod as though it were a router.

Very easy in OS X, not sure how you go about it Windows cos I've never had to do it.
 
The idea of tethering ( can't spell ) is so that like when I was in my dads truck and I want an app on my iPod I could connect via. USB and use a mobile network thingy.
 
bluetooth DUN profile for ipod

I too am very upset and feel misled.

I want to tether my touch to my work provided blackberry for internet browsing when not near wifi.

Moving on after disapointment, how hard would it be for the wonderful hackers out there to add a bluetooth DUN profile. I don't imagine a legitimate app would work because it would have to run in the background in order to use safari.
 
I'd love to be able to tether my touch to my blackberry for times when I don't have a wifi signal. The browser is so much better than the BB.

Then again I could just tether my bb to my netbook or MBP in those times
 
Come on...really now? I've wanted an app for an iPhone to turn into a "Bluetooth" router so iPod touch users can connect that would be nice, my team goes on allot of away meets and almost everyone has an iPod touch and one or two have iPhones so this would be nice. Haha I wish I could hook up the old linksys to an iPhone, damn can't find that Ethernet port though (just kidding..)
 
Sharing internet connection on mac to ipod

Although it's not considered tethering. You can connect your ipod touch to your mac using ad hoc via wifi. Then share your broadband internet card in the sharing option in System preferences. Then you would have internet on your ipod so you can play your internet games or download right to the phone via itunes or whatever you want. I just tested this on my ipod touch 8gig with the 3.0 software (not jail broken) and it works fine.
 
WillyMF1 said:
I want to tether my touch to my work provided blackberry for internet browsing when not near wifi.
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Same here, except with my 3G phone (not an iPhone). I'm waiting to upgrade my iPod to do my own experiment because the chatter I'm hearing about tethering an iPod seems to be one sided. There's too much "inside the box" thinking about this.

When version 3 point whatever is finally deemed stable by the community, I'll be upgrading. I'm hoping I'll be able to post a successful experiment if it had not already been reported by someone else.
 
Ok im at my friends cottage and got my new macbook 13" tethered to my iphone. My sister has an ipod touch and wondeirng about getting her on the shared internet off my macbook. I went through usual internet sharing etc, and put in a wep key etc, but my ipod touch doesnt detect any wifi and when i manually enter the wep key and network name, cant find it either.
any advice?
the ipod touch was updated to 3.0 too
 
cpnotebook80 said:
Ok im at my friends cottage and got my new macbook 13" tethered to my iphone. My sister has an ipod touch and wondeirng about getting her on the shared internet off my macbook. I went through usual internet sharing etc, and put in a wep key etc, but my ipod touch doesnt detect any wifi and when i manually enter the wep key and network name, cant find it either.
any advice?
the ipod touch was updated to 3.0 too
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never mind it worked, i selected airport instead of ethernet of the iphone.
yeh!
 
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