lifehacker.com — Although AT&T will eventually offer an iPhone tethering plan so that you can use your iPhone's data plan on your laptop (yay!), there's one major catch: They're also planning to charge your an extra $30/month to do it (boo!).
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zippoNov 14, 2008
I'm already paying Rogers $30/month for my iPhone's data plan... I'm not forking out any more for essentially nothing.
newman8rNov 14, 2008
I've been tethering my iPhone for more than a year with a socks server.. works ok but you only get httpI didn't read the entire article - does this method give you FULL internet?
freddiedNov 14, 2008
If nothing else, they could check your browser version when you initiate HTTP connections.I think the bigger question is, how will ATT know that you tether *with an iPhone*. Right now I can take my SIM out, put it into my Treo 650 and tether til my heart's content, 100% free and 100% legal (legal in the sense that I am not using any hacked firmware, just plain jane Windows Mobile 6).
orvtechNov 14, 2008
thats what i though, they will be checking for that sort of HTTP headers and protocols that the iphone is not suppose to use (ssh, ftp, smb, etc...).In my case i have allways been paranoic about this kind of stuff (Note... the fact that im paranoic does not mean that they are not really out to get me) so i change my browser to send:"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5F136 Safari/525.20"as ID on the HTTP header.but even that. what if i am using another browser in my phone, lets say that i manage to compile and get Firefox working on my iPhone. that does not mean that i am tethering necessarily.
whuddadumbsnNov 14, 2008
Much like ATT may charge an extra $30/month to tether your phone to your computer, Verizon has already implemented such a plan... and I think that they are charging something to the tune of an extra $20 on top of the $50/month data plan.I've used PDANet for my Palm (yeah, I know my phone and carrier both suck, thanks -- but not my decision) for a while. It works very well. Since I don't download anything significant or use it too often, Verizon hasn't yelled at me, yet...
ngmcs8203Nov 14, 2008
Great, thanks for the tips. I've got myself a project for the weekend.
freddiedNov 14, 2008
Just tried it, and 1.33 works fine with TightVNC.