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Why is the tethering option available?

Darth.Titan

Darth.Titan

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Oct 31, 2007
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I have a 32GB iPhone 3GS. It is locked to AT&T and has never been jailbroken. I am one of those boring people who just uses the my iPhone exactly as Apple and AT&T expect me to like a good little boy. :rolleyes:

My question is this:
How did the tethering option end up in my Settings->General->Network settings? I thought that wasn't supposed to be there unless your service provider provided the option or you hacked your firmware.

P.S. I don't know if it actually works or not since I just noticed it.
 

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Darth.Titan said:
I have a 32GB iPhone 3GS. It is locked to AT&T and has never been jailbroken. I am one of those boring people who just uses the my iPhone exactly as Apple and AT&T expect me to like a good little boy. :rolleyes:

My question is this:
How did the tethering option end up in my Settings->General->Network settings? I thought that wasn't supposed to be there unless your service provider provided the option or you hacked your firmware.

P.S. I don't know if it actually works or not since I just noticed it.
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You don't need to hack the firmware. You can get that from a carrier hack (either BenM or Stealth).

What OS version are you on? 3.0? 3.0.1? Check your Carrier. Is it 6.0?


Of course, if you're not in the U.S., then the world is your oyster and none of the above crap applies.
 
-aggie- said:
It doesn't. Did you get the iPhone from someone or are you not in the U.S.?
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Nope. This phone was delivered to me by Apple on launch day, and I am in the US.

Applejuiced said:
Why dont you try it.
Even though the option is there I doubt it will work on an AT&T iphone thats updated to 3.1.3
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I intend to try it when I get home to my MBP but you are probably correct, I'm betting it won't work either.
 
I'm in Canada with Rogers and my iPhone is now my only internet connection. Tethering to my iMac works flawlessly; I can reliably get 2Mb/s downloads off Rogers 3G. (I then use my iMac's Internet Sharing to re-broadcast my 3G via Wi-Fi to my laptops. Like I said, it works great -- especially considering there's no other broadband option in the rural area where I live.)
 
Darth.Titan said:
It says AT&T 5.6
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Have you clicked Internet Tethering?

Cause in Canada you need at least 1GB of data. I have 500MB and when I click it, it tells me to contact Rogers.

You can't go into the settings for it unless it's enabled by the carrier AFAIK.

So taking a screenshot of that is pretty pointless, as everyone probably has that option.
 
acfusion29 said:
Have you clicked Internet Tethering?

Cause in Canada you need at least 1GB of data. I have 500MB and when I click it, it tells me to contact Rogers.

You can't go into the settings for it unless it's enabled by the carrier AFAIK.

So taking a screenshot of that is pretty pointless, as everyone probably has that feature.
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You seem to have missed the point of my thread. I am not in Canada. I am in the U.S. and AT&T does not offer tethering here. Therefore the tethering option shouldn't be in the settings unless the firmware or carrier settings are hacked. My phone has not been hacked, unlocked or jailbroken in any way.

The screenshot is not pointless because here everyone does not have that feature.
 
-aggie- said:
That's the official version. Strange, since you bought it new and have never hacked it that you even have that tethering screen. If you actually have tethering that'll be even stranger.
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I guess I'll have to post back when I find out then.
 
As I suspected, the tethering option doesn't actually work. :(

Oddly enough after trying to get it to work a couple of times, the tethering option disappeared from my settings.

Big Brother is watching...
 
Darth.Titan said:
As I suspected, the tethering option doesn't actually work. :(

Oddly enough after trying to get it to work a couple of times, the tethering option disappeared from my settings.

Big Brother is watching...
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i had it for a while as well. same situation as you and it went away one day by it self. so weird.
 
Darth.Titan said:
As I suspected, the tethering option doesn't actually work. :(

Oddly enough after trying to get it to work a couple of times, the tethering option disappeared from my settings.

Big Brother is watching...
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It's not Big Brother. Once the iPhone sees that it don't actually have tethering, it updates the menus and reverts back to the menus for the .ipcc you actually have. From what I can tell, you must have had someone try to upload the Stealth .ipcc or the BenM hack.
 
Darth.Titan said:
As I suspected, the tethering option doesn't actually work. :(

Oddly enough after trying to get it to work a couple of times, the tethering option disappeared from my settings.

Big Brother is watching...
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I wouldn't expect it to work. When/If AT&T gets tethering out to the masses, I believe it's going to carry a separate monthly plan.
 
When I got my iPhone replaced two weeks ago from Apple, I had the exact options as in the OP screenshot. I gave it a try, it didn't connect, and the option went away. I think it's like an earlier poster stated, once it finds out there's not tethering in the location, it removes it from the settings.
 
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