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No built in 4G? What are you guys using for on-the-go internet?

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HardLuckStories

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I have to say, all this 'advice' to jail break iphones and install tehering apps via cydia is bad advice.

These apps allow your phone to operate outside the parameters it was originally designed to by Apple and yes it ultimately results in overheated phones and cooked batteries. I know this to be a FACT from experience. Best of luck guys.
 
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fibrizo

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Rooted Evo 4G running android wifi tether for free... 7mb/sec down 1mb/sec up. :) No other evo lovers here lol
 
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M87

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I bought Handy Light before it was removed from the app store and I have unlimited data for iPhone.
 
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bossxii

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HardLuckStories said:
I have to say, all this 'advice' to jail break iphones and install tehering apps via cydia is bad advice.

These apps allow your phone to operate outside the parameters it was originally designed to by Apple and yes it ultimately results in overheated phones and cooked batteries. I know this to be a FACT from experience. Best of luck guys.
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Sorry you had bad luck tethering, but you do realize Apple built in Wifi type tethering into the iPhone yes? It is used around the world on various carriers as so and ATT offers wired tethering on the iPhone now. You clearly don't know any facts about it or you would have already known these "actual" facts.

These apps only allow us to do what Apple actually intended but AT&T refuses to allow. Please stop with the BS.

For the record I won't disagree that heat isn't' a good thing on any type of battery, but if the person using MyWi has a clue they already know how to turn down the power of the transmitter to reduce not only the battery drain but the heat it will generate. I can pull nearly an 8 hour day from my iPhone 4 with min settings. I rarely have my iPhone more than 5 feet from the device I'm tethered to, simple common sense and it can be very efficient.
 
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kurzz

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HardLuckStories said:
I have to say, all this 'advice' to jail break iphones and install tehering apps via cydia is bad advice.

These apps allow your phone to operate outside the parameters it was originally designed to by Apple and yes it ultimately results in overheated phones and cooked batteries. I know this to be a FACT from experience. Best of luck guys.
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My iPhone let's me tether without jailbreaking! How exactly is this capability outside the design by Apple? They wouldn't put this feature in if it wasn't designed for it.
 
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VespaMatt

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Oct 30, 2010
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I just sold my 3G iPad and plan to replace it with a Galaxy Tab coming out in November. I understand that the latest version of Android has WiFi Hot Spot tethering built in so I can share the data plan with my Air quite easily, without having to purchase an extra app or rooting it. I had to jailbreak my iPad to get it to do everything I wanted and it was quite flakey, so I have no desire to jailbreak my phone.

The Tab will do double duty as a pdf viewer/eareader (bought all my ebooks from the Kindle store when I had my iPad) and light web browsing around the house. I'm actually really keen of the sizing of it and think it will compliment the Air quite nicely.
 
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hsl

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Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C5115c Safari/6533.18.5)

elwood58 said:
hsl said:
Well, for one device a usb stick would do the trick fine, but it has two major disadvantages:

1. it sticks out of the laptop, quite annoying.
2. you can only use it on the laptop, (sometimes I want to share the connection with other devices or/and people)
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You can always turn on Internet Sharing on the MBA, and share the USB Data Connection out via WiFi.
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True, but I hate these ugly things sticking out of a beautiful machine. And it's always in the way while typing when sitting in the train :)

A Mifi just makes more sense (and it saves you battery on the laptop)

I got the one from 3 and unlocked it online for 7 dollars :)
 
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HardLuckStories

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Oct 23, 2010
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UK, Manchester
bossxii said:
Sorry you had bad luck tethering, but you do realize Apple built in Wifi type tethering into the iPhone yes?

These apps only allow us to do what Apple actually intended but AT&T refuses to allow. Please stop with the BS.
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kurzz said:
My iPhone let's me tether without jailbreaking! How exactly is this capability outside the design by Apple? They wouldn't put this feature in if it wasn't designed for it.
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Yes smart arse i do realize Apple built it in, i used it and it was very good, but not some jack ass that wrote some code on Cydia, charged me ten bucks and for all intents and purposes killed my iphone battery. Anyway seems you guys know best, like i said good luck.
 
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bossxii

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HardLuckStories said:
Yes smart arse i do realize Apple built it in, i used it and it was very good, but not some jack ass that wrote some code on Cydia, charged me ten bucks and for all intents and purposes killed my iphone battery. Anyway seems you guys know best, like i said good luck.
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So what your saying is you used it, didn't monitor the heat, nor adjust the power settings and it killed your battery so your pissed? Ok I get that, however many of us have ZERO issues and have used it for 2+ years with no ill effects. Considering the amount of hours and gigs I've streamed thru my Slingbox, pretty sure if used correctly (power settings) it's a non issue. Anyone JB their phone takes certain risks, being pissed at the world because a battery went bad due to it, is rather silly and as I stated BS.

I currently get ridiculously fast speeds with MyWi and AT&T, I would gladly pay the $20 extra bucks if they would just allow the native wireless tethering Apple has built in. I sit in my office with 2 or 3 bars of service and consistently pull 2.5 to 3mb DL and 1mb UP all day long. AT&T wants to bend us over and sell us a USB data card or a USB only iPhone tethering while restricting us to 2gig even if I am already grandfathered in on the unlimited. I call BS and will gladly use MyWi all day long. The ball is in their court, it's for them to gain or lose tethering customers, so far they fail.
 
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bossxii

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WardC said:
Is there a way to tether the 3G from the iPad to the MacBook Air?
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Not 100% sure but I believe I've read people Jailbreaking the iPad and installing MyWi on it. As long as your iPad is a 3g version, it has the proper radio's to do it just like an iPhone. I would check in the "iPhone Hack" section or "iPad" section here on MR. Pretty sure it's possible if willing to JB the device.

Something similar to this should work via BT to any BT device I would guess.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/923503/
 
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nicoritschel

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May 22, 2006
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iPhone bluetooth tethering via a Commcenter patch, homeboy. I don't even have to pull out my phone to enable tethering :cool:
 
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bmat

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Nov 24, 2004
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Does anyone with Virgin's MiFi have concerns that they are going to change their plans? It seems like a too good to be true thing, since it uses (I heard) Sprint's network?
 
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ewhite

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Jun 30, 2009
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Verizon BlackBerry Curve2 connected via short USB cable to Mac, using VZ Access software is how I do this on the go with bootcamp on my MacBook Pro

Short USB cables can be purchased from many vendors online for less than $5 USD, software is free, and I pay a small tethering fee monthly to VZ. I believe access is capped at 5GB/mo by VZ. Have not tried yet connecting via bluetooth, phone supports it but not sure if software does.

Link to software if you are interested to see including hardware supported (not all handsets are, including mine in Mac OSX...)
http://www.vzam.net/

Would have been nice to have 3G/4G built-in, but this adds expense, engineering (antennas) and also sacrifices built-in battery life.
 
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MikePA

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Aug 17, 2008
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TetherMe on my iPhone and a BT connection. I also use MyWi for a wifi hotspot. I've NEVER had a battery overheating problem and until this thread NEVER heard of it 'destroying' a battery.
 
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Kenal0

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Sep 15, 2007
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Sprint Overdrive. I was able to get Handylight but the Sprint Overdrive allows multiple devices.

Kenal0
 
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