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Tethering won't work

cclloyd

cclloyd

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I use TetherMe to tether my phone.

I turn on the hotspot, (on windows 7), it lists my phone under the available networks, and then it tries to connect but fails; it doesn't even prompt for a password. Doesn't even work with USB tethering.

Any ideas?
 
I didn't post to just get replies from people like you. If you aren't going to help, don't post anything.
 
You have the latest itunes version installed on your computer?
Did you test it out with other computers to see if its just that PC that cant connect or an issue with the phone?
 
cclloyd9785 said:
I use TetherMe to tether my phone.

I turn on the hotspot, (on windows 7), it lists my phone under the available networks, and then it tries to connect but fails; it doesn't even prompt for a password. Doesn't even work with USB tethering.

Any ideas?
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I had something similar happen with mine in Win7

for me I was able to connect (with limited connection), in which a quick fix would be to right click the wifi icon in the corner and troubleshoot network problems and that usually fixed it.

with your problem make sure the right security is enabled, maybe go into your actual network "adapters" and remove your phone and try connecting again
 
cclloyd9785 said:
I use TetherMe to tether my phone.

I turn on the hotspot, (on windows 7), it lists my phone under the available networks, and then it tries to connect but fails; it doesn't even prompt for a password. Doesn't even work with USB tethering.

Any ideas?
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do you have to pay extra to use tetherme? as in, will you need to get a separate tethering plan or is this just like myfi?
 
It's actually 40 a month on sprint. For that price I would just buy a hotspot, but I can't pay that.

As for my iTunes version, I have 10.6.0.40

Trying the windows troubleshooter now...

Edit: That didn't work either. I noticed however that the blue status bar pops up on my iPhone occasionally saying that there is 1 connection.

If it helps at all to know this, it doesn't even get to the point where it prompts me for the password.
 
cclloyd9785 said:
It's actually 40 a month on sprint. For that price I would just buy a hotspot, but I can't pay that.

As for my iTunes version, I have 10.6.0.40

Trying the windows troubleshooter now...
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And for what .1mb one day and .08 others and if you are lucky to live in a decent area you can get the average .600-.800

Maybe if it was a steady 1.6mb it would be worth it, but for how spotty there 3g is, not really worth it to me either.
 
New update: I got it to work. I deleted the network settings for it that were known on Windows, and then tried again, it prompted for my pass, and now I'm connected, posting from the connection right now, even if the speeds are a bit slow.

 
Yea, although I just realized that. I thought your post only said to try the troubleshooter.
 
I tried MyWi on a trial and that wouldn't work at all. I couldn't even get it to show up under the network list.
 
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