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What is the best free tethering program?
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This thread is pure entertainment... Telling the OP to buy it because someone "deserves" to get paid for their work and yet can't see the forest for the trees. Absolutly priceless. Pay $20 bucks so you can effectively steal data services from ATT.. LOL, you all try to push the morality of paying the developer but somehow have no issue stealing the data that the tool gives access too.
Gotta love the Internet.
I wonder if I buy a gun from some poor handicapped gun maker to help his family does it make it ok if I rob a bank? The logic on this board never fails to astound.
Gotta love the Internet.
I wonder if I buy a gun from some poor handicapped gun maker to help his family does it make it ok if I rob a bank? The logic on this board never fails to astound.
It's like going to a buffet, paying, and eating all you want while there (monthly bill), then taking buckets of food out with you afterwards (JB'ing for a tethering).
"But sir, it said 'ALL YOU CAN EAT', but didn't say where I had to eat it!"
If you actually have to ask... There is no amount of information that would ever help you understand.
A better analogy would be going to an all you can eat Chinese buffet where they only have chop sticks, but bringing your own fork. In fact I think that's pretty much a perfect analogy. The issue with tethering is how you're accessing the data (just like how you're eating the food).
Exactly. In the buffet you are supposed to only eat food at the buffet, but with 3G, you can use the data at your house, at your work, anywhere.
The bottom line is you are still paying for the same data, the only difference is you can now choose to access the data through your phone or computer.
Plus the AT&T tethering options are BS. A USB modem gets 5GB for $60 = $12 a GB while the iPhone 4 gets 2GB for $45 = $22.5 a GB
I feel kind of dumb having to ask this, I know my way around command line and all that. But these instructions aren't meaning much to me. Do I just ssh into my iphone and dpkg -i the .deb file and reboot?
nevermind i found a link with the directions laid out for dummies.
I haven't gotten bluetooth working right just yet, keeps giving "no device driver" on pairing, but usb seems to be working fine (which is good enough for me). Thanks for the mention. This information deserves it's own thread and away from the pointless back and forth going on in here.
Edit: As a side note, I found this post in that thread useful to get things set up: http://xsellize.com/topic/74123-pat...n-3g3gs4g/page__st__20__p__455550#entry455550
After you ftp the .deb file, you need to open up terminal from within the ftp utility.
In yummy ftp, it's listing -> open in terminal.
In yummy ftp, it's listing -> open in terminal.
Bluetooth works - you sure your on the latest itunes and have properly paired the phone with your computer?
Well it can be free *cough* but no it costs $30 I think.
I've been using PdaNET with no problems... How does MyWi compare?
This is to get native tethering correct? Mywi is great but I do not wish to pay for it or have rock installed or have to use a program. If this is native then I'm all for it b
Indeed it does. I did update iTunes to be on the safe side (was one release back). It still wouldn't work, but once I right clicked the iphone icon in my Bluetooth Devices pane (Windows) it connected straight away. Thanks again, will give a mention in your new thread as well.
Posted while tethered through the Bluetooth connection on my iPhone 4.
Yes this is native via USB and Bluetooth.
One advantage MyWi has is that it creates Wireless Access Point that any device that has no Bluetooth stack or USB connectivity (eg: iPad) can connect to... whereas the native method requires USB/BT to computer. I don't think iPad supports the USB nor the BT tethering from iPhone as there is no BT profile on the iPad for this.
Nice this is all I want. It looks like a lot of steps is it relatively easy on a Mac? Just use text editor to edit all the .plist files?
Actually I did not even edit any .plist file
If you go to https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/984943/
and follow the guide step by step, all I did was
1. Download the .deb patch file
2. Download carrier.plist file from that multiupload link
3. Backup my commcenter and carrier.plist
4. SSH to the phone via terminal on OSX and run the commcenter patch
5. Cyberduck and copy the carrier.plist
6. Reset network settings
That's kind of the big picture... If you downloaded the latest file from the multiupload site listed on that other thread, all the amendments should be there (eg: Facetime fix)
Once you downloaded it, though just open it with textedit and make sure everything is all there
Buy MyWi .. really its worth the $20 and more
I upgraded so $9 for faster uploads/downloads ( iphone 4g is faster) is a steal
I upgraded so $9 for faster uploads/downloads ( iphone 4g is faster) is a steal
Actually I did not even edit any .plist file
If you go to https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/984943/
and follow the guide step by step, all I did was
1. Download the .deb patch file
2. Download carrier.plist file from that multiupload link
3. Backup my commcenter and carrier.plist
4. SSH to the phone via terminal on OSX and run the commcenter patch
5. Cyberduck and copy the carrier.plist
6. Reset network settings
That's kind of the big picture... If you downloaded the latest file from the multiupload site listed on that other thread, all the amendments should be there (eg: Facetime fix)
Once you downloaded it, though just open it with textedit and make sure everything is all there
What do you mean by run the commcenter patch? How exactly do you do that?