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MyWi and iPad - WOW

I have to say that MyWi is incredible. Right now I'm in the car. And my wife is driving. I am using it currently and I just got 2.43mbps over SpeedTestX HD.

I hope that this works with new iPhone and iPhone OS 4.0 :). I'm pretty sure it will but nothing is guaranteed :).
 
Using too much data--the wrong type of attention?

How much data are you iPhone mywi users using in a month? I'm slightly fearful of drawing too much AT&T attention. Is 400 MB a lot?
 
NateEssex said:
How much data are you iPhone mywi users using in a month? I'm slightly fearful of drawing too much AT&T attention. Is 400 MB a lot?
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400MB is nothing. I bought the 3G iPad and put myWi on the iPhone so I'd have 10GB available to the iPhone. A single baseball game via MLB At Bat can go over 250 MB and I watch a lot of baseball. I've seen it written many places that as long as you stay under 5GB per account AT&T won't look twice and so far that's been true.
 
mgamber said:
400MB is nothing. I bought the 3G iPad and put myWi on the iPhone so I'd have 10GB available to the iPhone. A single baseball game via MLB At Bat can go over 250 MB and I watch a lot of baseball. I've seen it written many places that as long as you stay under 5GB per account AT&T won't look twice and so far that's been true.
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How many billing cycles have you done this for? I think people used MyWi in the past to tether laptops too.
 
Hello,

one quick question: I have been trying MyWi for the past few days, and it works great except for the fact that when I am back home, my iPad does not want to connect to my home network anymore. When I select it, it asks for the password, and even though I enter the right one, it keeps asking for the password. The only solution I found was to reboot the iPad. Then, it asks once again for the password but then it is finally able to connect to my network.
This is a bit annoying.
Has somebody already experienced something like this?
Maybe there are some settings to tweak, I don't know...

Thanks! Any help greatly appreciated!
 
lillumultipass said:
Hello,

one quick question: I have been trying MyWi for the past few days, and it works great except for the fact that when I am back home, my iPad does not want to connect to my home network anymore. When I select it, it asks for the password, and even though I enter the right one, it keeps asking for the password. The only solution I found was to reboot the iPad. Then, it asks once again for the password but then it is finally able to connect to my network.
This is a bit annoying.
Has somebody already experienced something like this?
Maybe there are some settings to tweak, I don't know...

Thanks! Any help greatly appreciated!
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In my experience, likely since mywi sets up an ad hoc network, iPad requires a wifi on-off cycle prior to seeking out other wifi sources.
 
Re: battery life, I have to wonder if the complaints are actually due to MyWi, or if there is something else jail breakers regularly do to their phones that is causing the fast drain. I jail broke my 3GS last night specifically to use this app (I have done nothing else to it yet), and using it today, I was surprised at how GOOD the life of my phone's battery still is.

Granted, I was not doing anything extremely heavy with it (mostly surfing and emailing). I used it for 40 minutes and took 10% off of my phone's battery. Extrapolating that, I should get between 5 and 6 hours of use out of it before my phone is dead. Given that 3G surfing on my phone gets me about 8 hours from full to empty, 5-6 tethering really doesn't seem that bad...

What kind of life is everyone else seeing? Are my results normal? Or lucky?
 
Stingfello said:
In my experience, likely since mywi sets up an ad hoc network, iPad requires a wifi on-off cycle prior to seeking out other wifi sources.
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Well, turning wifi off then back on didn't solve the solution: I really had to reboot. It does not take long but still, it's a bit disturbing, and does not seem to plague others, that's why I am a bit puzzled...
 
MikePA said:
I don't have this problem.
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Neither do I. But I have noticed that my iPad doesn't want to disconnect from the ad hoc network on it's own, even after that network is gone.
 
DannySmurf said:
Neither do I. But I have noticed that my iPad doesn't want to disconnect from the ad hoc network on it's own, even after that network is gone.
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I've seen this as well, in addition to the inability to renew your IP address. So, I've just decided to reboot the iPhone after every MyWi session.

Regarding battery life: My 3G lasts about 3.5 - 4 hours so I've gotten an iMax external battery. I keep the iPhone and battery running MyWi in my empty laptop case (no laptop) and my iPad merrily surfing the Internet.:)
 
Mywi is stellar. I'm up at a cottage this weekend. No wifi around, but typing this with my mywi connected iPad. Brilliant!
 
DannySmurf said:
Neither do I. But I have noticed that my iPad doesn't want to disconnect from the ad hoc network on it's own, even after that network is gone.
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Guess I wasn't very clear. This is the the same issue I have. Seems iPad doesn't immediately drop ad hoc after turning off mywi. Then iPad won't auto connect to wifi cause it's still 'connected' to mywi. I think this may time out after a bit but I haven't tested it.
 
Stingfello said:
Guess I wasn't very clear. This is the the same issue I have. Seems iPad doesn't immediately drop ad hoc after turning off mywi. Then iPad won't auto connect to wifi cause it's still 'connected' to mywi. I think this may time out after a bit but I haven't tested it.
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I see. You said your iPad requires a wifi on-off to disconnect from the ad hoc network. Thats the problem I don't see. What I meant was that it just doesn't drop that connection itself. It will still disconnect manually and connect to another network. It just wont drop the ad hoc connection on it's own. You're probably right though, I'm sure it will time out eventually; I haven't tested that either.
 
I'm at 4gb with mywi.

I looked everywhere, my contract and the att website (legal) and found nothing on the data cap. What gives?:confused:
 
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Just for fun I jailbroke my iPhone and used MyWi for one weekend. It did work great but I ended up restoring my iPhone.

I already have a Cradlepoint/VirginMobile setup. It works well and doesn't really cost all that much.

Quite frankly when the iPhone was jailbroken, it had quirks that I didn't feel comfortable with. It also took me a few times for the jailbreak to "stick".

I guess I'm a purest. I want things running as intended. Just weird that way. :)
 
I use the mophie pack air

I have the mophie air pack case, on a 3GS JB, and I use the mywi with my iPad . It's awesome! To save battery turn off your bluetooth and wifi, when not in use. I get a lot of battery juice. I normally use around 5 to 8 gb a month never had a problem. I also uninstalled backgrounder, because it drains the battery. If you don't really need it, uninstall it.
 
DannySmurf said:
I see. You said your iPad requires a wifi on-off to disconnect from the ad hoc network. Thats the problem I don't see. What I meant was that it just doesn't drop that connection itself. It will still disconnect manually and connect to another network. It just wont drop the ad hoc connection on it's own. You're probably right though, I'm sure it will time out eventually; I haven't tested that either.
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Well, in my case it didn't seem to time out for at least a few hours (I used it at noon) and then I tried my home network at around 8pm...
I guess I will have to bear with the fact that I have to reboot the iPad each time I use MyWi....
 
Maortiz10 said:
I have the mophie air pack case, on a 3GS JB, and I use the mywi with my iPad . It's awesome! To save battery turn off your bluetooth and wifi, when not in use. I get a lot of battery juice. I normally use around 5 to 8 gb a month never had a problem. I also uninstalled backgrounder, because it drains the battery. If you don't really need it, uninstall it.
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Maybe the wrong place for it, but why & how do you use Backgrounder? I did it as part of the 4 Cydia main apps listed in the section. :confused:
 
lillumultipass said:
Well, in my case it didn't seem to time out for at least a few hours (I used it at noon) and then I tried my home network at around 8pm...
I guess I will have to bear with the fact that I have to reboot the iPad each time I use MyWi....
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A small price to pay for this, I think.
 
NateEssex said:
Maybe the wrong place for it, but why & how do you use Backgrounder? I did it as part of the 4 Cydia main apps listed in the section. :confused:
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Backgrounder is for the ability of running apps in the background, it's a good feature but if your not careful it will drain the battery considerably fast. I just uninstalled it, cause the main reason I JB was to use the MYWI with my iPad.
 
lillumultipass said:
Well, turning wifi off then back on didn't solve the solution: I really had to reboot. It does not take long but still, it's a bit disturbing, and does not seem to plague others, that's why I am a bit puzzled...
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Same issue, reboot to go from miwi to another network
 
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