Yes, you can get on the free WIFI at Starbucks with your laptop. There are 2 ways...if you have an AT&T account, you can log in for free using that information. The other way is to have a Starbucks gift card that you either use or recharge at least once a month.
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PdaNet 1.51 is AWESOME!!!
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Yes, you can get on the free WIFI at Starbucks with your laptop. There are 2 ways...if you have an AT&T account, you can log in for free using that information. The other way is to have a Starbucks gift card that you either use or recharge at least once a month.
Yeah, but I doubt that would ever happen. From a bandwidth perspective, many legit appstore are already bandwidth hogs. Think about how much bandwidth the Pandora app uses. I know friends who use that as their car radio 24/7.
It's not like the 1% of ppl who jailbreak the iPhone are sucking down more bandwidth than the thousands of people who run the AOL app.
I honestly think that all of that lawyer crap is just CYA typical lawyer stuff.
Works with windows 7 here. UK iphone with 02 - usb tethering.
Did notice that it doesn't like it if its run as a taskbar app - I kept getting a windows dialog saying that pdanet.exe could not run correctly blah, blah.
Start it up on the iphone and then start pdanet from its program menu and then connect - works perfectly that way.
Did notice that it doesn't like it if its run as a taskbar app - I kept getting a windows dialog saying that pdanet.exe could not run correctly blah, blah.
Start it up on the iphone and then start pdanet from its program menu and then connect - works perfectly that way.
I tried your technique and a no go for me. I exit out of the taskbar, turn on pdanet on the phone, set it to USB, start the desktop app in windows 7 and all it does is pop the icon back up in the taskbar. When I hit connect nothing. It does not connect. I never get an error with windows but one with pdanet desktop saying something along the lines of could not connect to phone. Are you doing this via bootcamp on a mac or an actual PC machine?
Just an update the the Windows 7 saga. Turns out I was able to get the usb tethering to work. The problem was, oddly enough, that I had never fully setup iTunes. I installed the thing but since I don't use iTunes at all on the Windows partition of my MBP I never ran the program and let it setup its settings. After this I was able to get everything to work.
you're still going through your cellular provider for internet access, so you have that to factor in.
I've found it to quite a bit slower, unfortunately. I suppose it depends on your 3G coverage and connection as well.
bluetooth connection
Does anyone have a link for how to use pdanet with a MAC and bluetooth connection?
I have been using it fine for several years now with a PC and a USB connection, but CANNOT get it to work with my mbp. I have connected via BT, I have turned off the GPS on the mogul so it doesn't try to use port 4. I have setup the PDANET to do BT PAN network.
but, when I connect I just don't get a connection.
Does anyone have a link for how to use pdanet with a MAC and bluetooth connection?
I have been using it fine for several years now with a PC and a USB connection, but CANNOT get it to work with my mbp. I have connected via BT, I have turned off the GPS on the mogul so it doesn't try to use port 4. I have setup the PDANET to do BT PAN network.
but, when I connect I just don't get a connection.
The Bluetooth stack in the iPhone doesn't support creating a BT PAN network. The only way is via ad-hoc right now if you want to use PdaNet with a Mac.