Using iPhone to connect MacBook to internet

[John876]

Particularly now that the 3G has come out it seems worthwhile to use an iPhone to connect another device to the internet (namely my macbook). Is this possible? Can i share the internet connection over bluetooth or something? Do I need to install some app?

Thanks

 

[Surely]

Particularly now that the 3G has come out it seems worthwhile to use an iPhone to connect another device to the internet (namely my macbook). Is this possible? Can i share the internet connection over bluetooth or something? Do I need to install some app?

Thanks

No. Not possible.


Search is your friend in these forums.

 

[John876]

No. Not possible.


Search is your friend in these forums.

Not even with some incredibly hacky method?

 

[NiroshanMan]

Search before you start a thread
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/498581/
This is called tethering and AT&T does not support/allow this for the iPhone. You can do it with the 1st Gen iPhone through jailbreaking, but iPhone 3G isn't exactly jailbroken yet so you'll have to wait. Tether may not even happen even with Jailbreaking. All i can say is to wait.

 

[Chronimac]

Search before you start a thread
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/498581/
but iPhone 3G isn't exactly jailbroken yet so you'll have to wait. Tether may not even happen even with Jailbreaking. All i can say is to wait.

The 3g iPhone will be jail broken.
And someone will build an app that allows tethering.
But using such an app is a violation of your at&t contract, and if they catch on, they are perfectly happy with canceling your unlimited data plan and charing you by the KB. so be careful.

 

[bronksy]

forget about AT&T.. what about O2

So can O2 people connect. even with USB to their macs and use the phone as a modem?

The O2 rep on the phone to me today said it could be done.. it was the small business part.


Were they talking crap?

 

[zed2]

So can O2 people connect. even with USB to their macs and use the phone as a modem?

The O2 rep on the phone to me today said it could be done.. it was the small business part.


Were they talking crap?

well if you can... I don't know how to do it... and I would love to..

No I think he was not talking out of his mouth!

--Zed

 

[RealaT]

So can O2 people connect. even with USB to their macs and use the phone as a modem?

The O2 rep on the phone to me today said it could be done.. it was the small business part.


Were they talking crap?

Yep, complete crap. iPhone does not support tethering.

 

[spriter]

Tethering would boost sales even more and would convince me to upgrade. But I don't see it being officially supported, as much as I'd like it to be.

I agree, there'll be a hack sooner or later. And there'll also be people caught and kicked sooner or later.

 

[rasmasyean]

afaik, I don't think official support for tethering is on the 3G phone either. Maybe someone will hack it in later? Or maybe not if they included a "counter" to that in the new device.

Can you tether the original through WiFi?

I know Windows Mobile devices can tether via WiFi with an app that makes the phone a "mobile hotspot" and you can even put WEP, WPA on it, etc. or just leave it open for the public. But Windows has this thing called "Internet Connection Sharing" built into the OS. The funny thing about this is that you don't even need a tethering plan because it just uses the data plan. heh

As far as tethering boosting sales...it would mostly be for the business people...which would take a while before businesses adopt iPhones at the rate of other phones. For now, iPhones are still considered "toys" in that respect.

 

[mkoesel]

Can you tether the original through WiFi?

I know Windows Mobile devices can tether via WiFi with an app that makes the phone a "mobile hotspot" and you can even put WEP, WPA on it, etc. or just leave it open for the public. But Windows has this thing called "Internet Connection Sharing" built into the OS. The funny thing about this is that you don't even need a tethering plan because it just uses the data plan. heh

MacOSX also has internet sharing - I've used it before on my Macbook to download TiVO guide data. Very similar to ICS on Windows.

But here again, for an iPhone, you'd need to jailbreak it first.