I'm tethering without pdanet open...

[mullet]

Just last night I noticed I was able to tether my computer with my iphone without pdanet opened. I just created the adhoc network and connected to it on my iphone. Sure enough a few minutes later I was surfing the web. Is this normal behavior? Perhaps, this is a feature I have not known about or it could be an unintended feature.

~mullet

 

[Gix1k]

Stranger things have happened.

 

[jcde7ago]

It's a normal feature since the second version of PdaNet came out for the iPhone.

 

[navigates]

Just last night I noticed I was able to tether my computer with my iphone without pdanet opened. I just created the adhoc network and connected to it on my iphone. Sure enough a few minutes later I was surfing the web. Is this normal behavior? Perhaps, this is a feature I have not known about or it could be an unintended feature.

~mullet

The OP is right. IF you have installed PDAnet and have enabled USB mode, you don't have to start PDAnet at all as long as it is installed and it will tether well

 

[rendez2k]

Looking at the processes running on the iphone with freememory app, it appears pdanet has a process running at all times.

 

[Diseal3]

Unless you turn it off. Then it will not run in the background. Tested this yesterday.

 

[Diversion]

More specifically, PDANet uses a daemon that runs in the background so that you can tether while using the iPhone's other features at the same time.

That's why there is an toggle to OFF function inside the Pdanet program.

Jay