Using iphone as a modem to surf the internet...

[sdruid]

Is it possible to use the iphone as a modem to be able to surf the internet when connected to a laptop or other computer via usb or bluetooth ?
I have a Verizon HTC Titan that I use for this all the time...

[rawdog805]

I use PDANet, which is slower than heck.. But I was too nervous to try the commcenter patch thing.. Scared it might break something..

[CyberMonkey]

Originally Posted by rawdog805

I use PDANet, which is slower than heck.. But I was too nervous to try the commcenter patch thing.. Scared it might break something..

The method I used and posted gave me no problems at all. And my wife uses it on her iPhone. It's a pretty fast connection, not quite as fast as a cable modem but seems pretty close and ALOT faster than old school dial-up (does anybody use dial-up now-a-days)?

[rawdog805]

Originally Posted by CyberMonkey

The method I used and posted gave me no problems at all. And my wife uses it on her iPhone. It's a pretty fast connection, not quite as fast as a cable modem but seems pretty close and ALOT faster than old school dial-up (does anybody use dial-up now-a-days)?

lol, I hope not... but it seems like im on dialup when using PDAnet... lol..

[kdps105]

Cybermonkey can at&t see this or know that you are tethering.

[CyberMonkey]

Originally Posted by kdps105

Cybermonkey can at&t see this or know that you are tethering.

If they do, they have never said anything to me, but I never really used it for heavy browsing, just at the times when our cable modem had gone out. But my wife used it while she was out of town for 8 weeks cause it was actually ALOT faster than the net connection in the room and they never said anything then either.

[JunkionMarnot]

Oh boy CM, when they catch you.....

Anyhoo, I'd love to have that as I did when I had my Mogul then TP. But tehering on iPhone probably burns the battery more, and I can't afford replacing my iPhone 1 year in. But as you said CM, it's great in a pinch.

[CyberMonkey]

Originally Posted by JunkionMarnot

Oh boy CM, when they catch you.....

Anyhoo, I'd love to have that as I did when I had my Mogul then TP. But tehering on iPhone probably burns the battery more, and I can't afford replacing my iPhone 1 year in. But as you said CM, it's great in a pinch.

If I am not mistaken they don't see it as tethering, they just see it as browsing the web with the iPhone. I did some more looking into the other day.
And with an unlimited data plan, they can't really say anything with how much somebody uses it.
I never noticed it draining the battery, cause I always used it via the USB option which would also charge it while it's plugged to the computer.

[ducylowycz]

They can and WILL monitor your data activity through "packets"

"Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7E18 Safari/528.16)"

Just like above you can see someone submitted a post using the iphone browser right??? So what's stopping at&t from filtering desktop browsers on their network??? BELOW

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/20121223 Ubuntu/9.25 (jaunty) Firefox/3.8