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iPod touch OS 3 Internet Tethering Not Available on Ipod Touch ?!?
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haha....I think people need to just use common sense (which isn't so common) as it applys with everything even technology.I think we need to go old school elitist and require IQ tests before you can buy Apple products.
Sadly, that is not known as tethering.
iPhone OS 3.0 costs $10.
You can get a USB 802.11G dongle for around $15.
LOL I have all those wireless cards and all sorts of cool dongles laying around my house like popcorn. Really now wifi is so much cheaper to set up then when I got my first linksys for God knows how much. Haha that was when wireless G was "new"....
i have not had any luck with wifi usb dongles with a mac unfortunately and i have tried a bunch
I successfully used this Level One wireless USB adapter in the past on a couple iBooks and Powerbooks. I believe there are Panther and Tiger drivers on the web, but I'm not sure about Leopard drivers.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Level-One-1-11g-Wireless-USB-2-0-Adapter-54Mbps_W0QQitemZ170347558258QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item27a9817572&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C72%3A1205%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50
In case the Ebay link disappears, the model number is:
WNC-0301USB
I paid $0 after rebate from NewEgg two years ago, but it looks like this thing has been replaced with a newer model, which I don't know if the newer ones will work with OS X.
Here's another forum post regarding this topic:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t59918.html
On the topic of iPod Touch tethering, I have not been able to successfully add my iPod Touch to my Mac or PC via BT, but I have been able to add my iPhone to my Mac via BT.
(I don't have iPhone service, so my iPhone is just another "Touch" for my uses) For me, I "tether" my iPod touch to my Sprint HTC Touch Diamind (you can use ANY Windows Mobile 5/6 phone with a data plan and wireless ability) via wireless, as my phone acts as a wireless access point. I use a program called WMWifiRouter, but there is free software similar to this but not as user-friendly.
iPod Touch + HTC Touch Diamond is not the same as the iPhone, but for my uses it's better, except for the fact that I have to carry both devices.
Main reasons
1) best of both worlds, there are some Windows Mobile programs or features not on the iPod Touch, and visa versa
2) I pay only $24, AFTER TAXES, per month for my cell phone bill (yay for Sprint SERO), which includes unlimited data compared to $70-80+ for the iPhone (of course, "free" tethering is currently done with some registry tweaks, which may be changed or charged in the future, but it's been fine for the past 4 years and I don't use it that often - currently about 300-500MB data usage per month, including actual cell phone data usage)
3) because the HTC acts as a wifi access point, I can theoretically tether my laptop and iPod (or multiple laptops) at the same time
(I don't have iPhone service, so my iPhone is just another "Touch" for my uses) For me, I "tether" my iPod touch to my Sprint HTC Touch Diamind (you can use ANY Windows Mobile 5/6 phone with a data plan and wireless ability) via wireless, as my phone acts as a wireless access point. I use a program called WMWifiRouter, but there is free software similar to this but not as user-friendly.
iPod Touch + HTC Touch Diamond is not the same as the iPhone, but for my uses it's better, except for the fact that I have to carry both devices.
Main reasons
1) best of both worlds, there are some Windows Mobile programs or features not on the iPod Touch, and visa versa
2) I pay only $24, AFTER TAXES, per month for my cell phone bill (yay for Sprint SERO), which includes unlimited data compared to $70-80+ for the iPhone (of course, "free" tethering is currently done with some registry tweaks, which may be changed or charged in the future, but it's been fine for the past 4 years and I don't use it that often - currently about 300-500MB data usage per month, including actual cell phone data usage)
3) because the HTC acts as a wifi access point, I can theoretically tether my laptop and iPod (or multiple laptops) at the same time
To answer your questions.
I called apple support
and they said internet tethering will be available to ipod 2G users with the 3.0 firmware when AT&T makes it available to iphone users. When they do it will be in a free update and will be provided as as option on both iphone and ipod 2G. With iphone you can tether your 3G or wifi connection. With ipod 2G you can tether your wifi connection.
Tethering on the ipod touch will be useful for people who have older laptops that cant connect wpa2, for people with older mac mini's that don't have good range. It is very useful. It makes the ipod a usb Wifi adapter or it can even be a bluetooth wifi adapter. The market is still out there because there are plenty of people buying wireless usb adapters.
Note it will be available to ipod 2G users ONLY!
I called apple support
and they said internet tethering will be available to ipod 2G users with the 3.0 firmware when AT&T makes it available to iphone users. When they do it will be in a free update and will be provided as as option on both iphone and ipod 2G. With iphone you can tether your 3G or wifi connection. With ipod 2G you can tether your wifi connection. Tethering on the ipod touch will be useful for people who have older laptops that cant connect wpa2, for people with older mac mini's that don't have good range. It is very useful. It makes the ipod a usb Wifi adapter or it can even be a bluetooth wifi adapter. The market is still out there because there are plenty of people buying wireless usb adapters.
Note it will be available to ipod 2G users ONLY!
Man my iTouch cant do anything. I cant even tether it to a printer.
On a serious note Tethering is where you use your phones network to browse the net on a laptop/desktop. Its useless to have a touch that uses WiFi and try to use a laptop that uses that very same WiFi connection.
On a serious note Tethering is where you use your phones network to browse the net on a laptop/desktop. Its useless to have a touch that uses WiFi and try to use a laptop that uses that very same WiFi connection.
While normally I'd agree with you, there are some valuable uses (including a few mentioned above). One I could think of here in the UK is with The Cloud. I think they have/had an offer where you could pay £ 3.99 per month to gain access via their WI-FI hotspots via your iPod touch (as opposed to £ 9.99 for a laptop). I'm sure it would be against The Cloud's EULA, but you could sign up for the iPod touch, tether it with your MBP and pay 6 pounds less per month.
I do a bit of international travel. I can get a Boingo worldwide mobile device wifi account for $8 a month. For a laptop a worldwide account is $60 a month.
No brainer for me!
Well I am not sure if this is considered reverse tethering or not. What do you call it?
If I tether my laptop to my cell phone via bluetooth it is called "bluetooth DUN" making the connection. "We also say tether my laptop to my cell phone." Or is it only tether my cell phone to my laptop? What is it called in the reverse direction?
I am curious about connecting an itouch to a cell phone via bluetooth dun. Can the itouch use the gprs modem in my cell phone, when no WiFi is avail?
Backround:
I am faced with a decision on my next purchase. It is actually for my wife. Currently we have an old CellularOne plan. We both have unlimited data. Since AT&T purchased Dobson (CellOne) I am faced with needing unlocked devices for my old SIM card. For me to upgrade to AT&T service, it is a considerable cost increase per month.
My wife wants a new phone. Do I go after an unlocked iphone at $700 bucks? Do I buy an inexpensive bluetooth enabled phone and an itouch, which would require her to carry two devices, but enable her to browse the net on her itouch wherever she has cell reception?
So my question is, does the 3.0 OS on an itouch allow bluetooth DUN to a cell phone?
I would still consider it tethering, rather than using a bulky laptop...use a slick itouch.
TIA
Well I am not sure if this is considered reverse tethering or not. What do you call it?
If I tether my laptop to my cell phone via bluetooth it is called "bluetooth DUN" making the connection. "We also say tether my laptop to my cell phone." Or is it only tether my cell phone to my laptop? What is it called in the reverse direction?
I am curious about connecting an itouch to a cell phone via bluetooth dun. Can the itouch use the gprs modem in my cell phone, when no WiFi is avail?
Backround:
I am faced with a decision on my next purchase. It is actually for my wife. Currently we have an old CellularOne plan. We both have unlimited data. Since AT&T purchased Dobson (CellOne) I am faced with needing unlocked devices for my old SIM card. For me to upgrade to AT&T service, it is a considerable cost increase per month.
My wife wants a new phone. Do I go after an unlocked iphone at $700 bucks? Do I buy an inexpensive bluetooth enabled phone and an itouch, which would require her to carry two devices, but enable her to browse the net on her itouch wherever she has cell reception?
So my question is, does the 3.0 OS on an itouch allow bluetooth DUN to a cell phone?
I would still consider it tethering, rather than using a bulky laptop...use a slick itouch.
TIA
dumb and dumber
I came across this thread/forum because I was searching for information on tethering an iPod Touch to a mobile device with a mobile data connection.
What is truly funny though, is the iDiots, who are too stupid and/or closed minded to understand the OP, that began ridiculing the OP for lacking IQ, while congratulating themselves on their superior intelligence. The lead characters in the movie "Dumb and Dumber" were complete idiots who thought they were smarter than others, and acted in similar fashion. Reading this thread has been a lot like watching that movie again, only funnier, because this is real life. Wow, there really are people THAT stupid in the world.
Anyways, to the majority of the people who discussed this issue like normal, decent people, just wanted to add, that I too would like to see the ability to tether the iPod Touch to a mobile device via bluetooth.
For those that don't get the concept of why, it has already been mentioned. A lot of people like myself have mobile phones with a data connection, but the iPod touch is a much nicer device to use for browsing, and other online applications. It is MUCH easier to carry an iPod touch everywhere than it is to carry a macbook, or even a netbook around all the time.
WiFi is not nearly as ubiquitous as cellular data connections.
Why don't I get an iPhone? Because I would have to change carriers, get out of a contract, and the real reason - I have a superb, grandfathered plan with my existing carrier, that is literally 3 times cheaper than the equivalent iPhone plan. I currently pay just $30 per month, and that includes unlimted 3G data. The equivalent voice and data plan on an iPhone would cost $100 per month. For $70 per month, I will very happily carry around both my mobile phone, and an iPod touch, instead of an iPhone.
My aging HTC Touch Vogue phone does NOT have Wifi, but it does have bluetooth that properly supports the PAN profile. I have tethered my laptop, my netbook, my macbook, even my desktop (when my DSL is down), to my mobile phone using bluetooth PAN. All of those devices are then able to access the internet using the mobile data connection on my phone.
The iPod Touch 2G with firmware 3.0, is the first device I have come across that claims to support bluetooth PAN, and yet can't use the internet connection from another connected PAN device to get online. Internet sharing is virtually synonymous with bluetooth PAN, so of COURSE, the OP being an intelligent person who actually understands how to use computers (not an iDork) is surprised that their supposedly "superior in all ways" Apple device is unable to do this.
I too am hoping that a 3rd party will fix this castrated so-called bluetooth PAN feature in OS 3.0, so that I can use the iPod Touch online anywhere that my 3G phone has an internet connection.
Apple is getting to be so controlling, and also so subservient to the even worse cellular industry, that IMHO they have clearly pushed aside Microsoft, and laid claim to the title of "most evil large computer company".
I came across this thread/forum because I was searching for information on tethering an iPod Touch to a mobile device with a mobile data connection.
What is truly funny though, is the iDiots, who are too stupid and/or closed minded to understand the OP, that began ridiculing the OP for lacking IQ, while congratulating themselves on their superior intelligence. The lead characters in the movie "Dumb and Dumber" were complete idiots who thought they were smarter than others, and acted in similar fashion. Reading this thread has been a lot like watching that movie again, only funnier, because this is real life. Wow, there really are people THAT stupid in the world.
Anyways, to the majority of the people who discussed this issue like normal, decent people, just wanted to add, that I too would like to see the ability to tether the iPod Touch to a mobile device via bluetooth.
For those that don't get the concept of why, it has already been mentioned. A lot of people like myself have mobile phones with a data connection, but the iPod touch is a much nicer device to use for browsing, and other online applications. It is MUCH easier to carry an iPod touch everywhere than it is to carry a macbook, or even a netbook around all the time.
WiFi is not nearly as ubiquitous as cellular data connections.
Why don't I get an iPhone? Because I would have to change carriers, get out of a contract, and the real reason - I have a superb, grandfathered plan with my existing carrier, that is literally 3 times cheaper than the equivalent iPhone plan. I currently pay just $30 per month, and that includes unlimted 3G data. The equivalent voice and data plan on an iPhone would cost $100 per month. For $70 per month, I will very happily carry around both my mobile phone, and an iPod touch, instead of an iPhone.
My aging HTC Touch Vogue phone does NOT have Wifi, but it does have bluetooth that properly supports the PAN profile. I have tethered my laptop, my netbook, my macbook, even my desktop (when my DSL is down), to my mobile phone using bluetooth PAN. All of those devices are then able to access the internet using the mobile data connection on my phone.
The iPod Touch 2G with firmware 3.0, is the first device I have come across that claims to support bluetooth PAN, and yet can't use the internet connection from another connected PAN device to get online. Internet sharing is virtually synonymous with bluetooth PAN, so of COURSE, the OP being an intelligent person who actually understands how to use computers (not an iDork) is surprised that their supposedly "superior in all ways" Apple device is unable to do this.
I too am hoping that a 3rd party will fix this castrated so-called bluetooth PAN feature in OS 3.0, so that I can use the iPod Touch online anywhere that my 3G phone has an internet connection.
Apple is getting to be so controlling, and also so subservient to the even worse cellular industry, that IMHO they have clearly pushed aside Microsoft, and laid claim to the title of "most evil large computer company".
Tether Ipod Touch
Reasons one would want to tether a Touch to 3g service via bluetooth;
I have an AT&T Motto Q9 h with 3g. I use this to sync with PC's using windows. I also tether my Macbook via bluetooth to the Motto, for 3g on the go.
The browser on the Motto Q is somewhat lacking, and pretty clumsey to operate. I don't want to spend another 300 bucks for an Iphone 3gs when I own a 2g Touch. I'd like be able to carry my cell and my Touch when I don't want to carry my Macbook.
Anyone with any luck on tethering the touch via bluetooth?
Reasons one would want to tether a Touch to 3g service via bluetooth;
I have an AT&T Motto Q9 h with 3g. I use this to sync with PC's using windows. I also tether my Macbook via bluetooth to the Motto, for 3g on the go.
The browser on the Motto Q is somewhat lacking, and pretty clumsey to operate. I don't want to spend another 300 bucks for an Iphone 3gs when I own a 2g Touch. I'd like be able to carry my cell and my Touch when I don't want to carry my Macbook.
Anyone with any luck on tethering the touch via bluetooth?
I thought Mac Users were creative types?
I'm hoping that the silly comments to this thread represent the attitude of only a small percentage of Mac users. You see, I've been a "PC" since there only was one PC! I'm slowly being converted, but the ads and the attitude of several of the postes in this thread are making me think twice. Can't we all just get along?
In any event, I'm interested in finding a way to connect my Verizon Tour to my iTouch. I'm not interested in AT&T's service and I can't get an iPhone (yet). Even if I could, I have a massive music collection and the 64gb is an absolute minimum for memory.
Therefore, has anyone figuered out how to tether my iTouch to my Tour so that I can use the Tour's DUN to connect my iTouch to broadband mobile service? This is especially helpful where there are no wifi hotspots but plenty of cellular 3G service (such as on the train).
I'm hoping that the silly comments to this thread represent the attitude of only a small percentage of Mac users. You see, I've been a "PC" since there only was one PC! I'm slowly being converted, but the ads and the attitude of several of the postes in this thread are making me think twice. Can't we all just get along?
In any event, I'm interested in finding a way to connect my Verizon Tour to my iTouch. I'm not interested in AT&T's service and I can't get an iPhone (yet). Even if I could, I have a massive music collection and the 64gb is an absolute minimum for memory.
Therefore, has anyone figuered out how to tether my iTouch to my Tour so that I can use the Tour's DUN to connect my iTouch to broadband mobile service? This is especially helpful where there are no wifi hotspots but plenty of cellular 3G service (such as on the train).
Part of the problem is that Verizon will want to charge you for tethering. Anything you do to avoid that charge/service is "hacking" in their eyes. There might be a solution - i've heard about some for Windows based smartphones.
Right now, for me, i'm pondering a Verizon mifi. I just have to decide if i want to get it now - or wait for a 4g version. And a few other things.... but it's an option for now that actually works for me in more ways than one.
here is a possible solution.
i have a sprint htc touch (original no wifi) i am purchasing this USB a Female to 5Pin Converter
so for anyone with a cell phone that has a mini usb connector you can try it this way.
once you have the itouch connected to the phone you should be able to set ICS (internet connection sharing) to on and be able to connect to the internet with the itouch.
not sure if this is allowed but here is the link i am purchasing from
http://www.bestofferbuy.com/Mini-US...ource=gbase&utm_medium=cse&utm_campaign=gbase
if you have a different type of phone you may be able to get a female to female usb adapter and plug the cable from your phone into one side of the adapter and the ipod cable to the other and get it to work.
granted no one wants to carry around a cable but for some of us it may be a wirthwhile work around.
i have a sprint htc touch (original no wifi) i am purchasing this USB a Female to 5Pin Converter
so for anyone with a cell phone that has a mini usb connector you can try it this way.
once you have the itouch connected to the phone you should be able to set ICS (internet connection sharing) to on and be able to connect to the internet with the itouch.
not sure if this is allowed but here is the link i am purchasing from
http://www.bestofferbuy.com/Mini-US...ource=gbase&utm_medium=cse&utm_campaign=gbase
if you have a different type of phone you may be able to get a female to female usb adapter and plug the cable from your phone into one side of the adapter and the ipod cable to the other and get it to work.
granted no one wants to carry around a cable but for some of us it may be a wirthwhile work around.
Let me make something painfully clear here.
The iPod Touch does not have tethering, and it probably will not support it in the near future.
What you should be focusing on is if the other device can support tethering through WiFi. On my Palm Pre, it works flawlessly, though there isn't any reason for me to use it.
If you really want to do something on the iPod Touch side, go contact a homebrew developer. Apple would never add such a feature in the iPod Touch. All it does is cannabalize sales of the iPhone.
To all you newbies out there, welcome to the forums.
The iPod Touch does not have tethering, and it probably will not support it in the near future.
What you should be focusing on is if the other device can support tethering through WiFi. On my Palm Pre, it works flawlessly, though there isn't any reason for me to use it.
If you really want to do something on the iPod Touch side, go contact a homebrew developer. Apple would never add such a feature in the iPod Touch. All it does is cannabalize sales of the iPhone.
To all you newbies out there, welcome to the forums.
The iPhone from phone point of view is very poor. Many (4-5X) more dropped calls than other cell phones. AT&T says 30% drop rate is acceptable for the iPhone.
I use the data side of the iPhone much more than the phone side. Which is somewhat of a waste.
I like many others out there, would like to use an iPod Touch as strictly a data device and be able to tether it to a cell phone when WiFi is not available.
Many years back, in the days of the iPaq, this was done frequently using BT and pretty much any cell phone would pair with the iPaq. The iPaq, just like the iPod Touch had WiFi as well, but WiFi is not everywhere like cell data.
The object is not to tether an iPod Touch to a laptop or something not pocket portable, but to a small cellphone.
There are many reason to do this, most financial.
If the iPod Touch could connect through BT to a cell phone, this would provide all of the same data that an iPhone user would have without the penalty of poor phone reception. And you can keep the phone in your pocket while using the Touch.
I use the data side of the iPhone much more than the phone side. Which is somewhat of a waste.
I like many others out there, would like to use an iPod Touch as strictly a data device and be able to tether it to a cell phone when WiFi is not available.
Many years back, in the days of the iPaq, this was done frequently using BT and pretty much any cell phone would pair with the iPaq. The iPaq, just like the iPod Touch had WiFi as well, but WiFi is not everywhere like cell data.
The object is not to tether an iPod Touch to a laptop or something not pocket portable, but to a small cellphone.
There are many reason to do this, most financial.
If the iPod Touch could connect through BT to a cell phone, this would provide all of the same data that an iPhone user would have without the penalty of poor phone reception. And you can keep the phone in your pocket while using the Touch.