How To Turn The iPhone Into a Wireless Router

Now my wife will have to let me have one. How else can I work to make the money to feed her shopping addictions?

Great post John, cool trick.
Let us know if ATT gets mad at you...lol j/k

This is a great option and is something I've recently started doing, great post!

Apple Rocks! Nice video guys

Hmm. John, have you tried using a Blackberry?

Yet another reason to purchase this device! This suits people who's always on the go like me. :)

Been using the AT&T Tilt as a connection to the internet for my laptop since I got it (about a year ago). I've got the unlimited media net plan, which works like the data plan but it's cheaper. They just don't like you knowing that media net is the same.

Using my phone as a wireless modem for the laptop is the best thing in the world. I use it all the time when I'm traveling. I'm never without internet access.

This is also a great tool when going to blog events and conferences, just in case you can't pick up and other wireless internet connections. And the 3G service is alot faster than dialup, just a little slower than dsl.

That is a spanktacular deal for the iPhone. I wonder if the G1 can do that? Anyone know about the capabilities of the Google phone through Tmobile.

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Thanks John for showing how it’s done.

good thing i have unlimited data plan. thanks for the tips. I have a 3g card for the macbook pro alread and i love it. in fact it is all that i use. However, I am going to be interested to see which is faster, the phone or the card that I already have. If the phone is laster then once this contract is up then I think that im going to have to ditch the card and only use the phone.

You guys never cease to amaze me...

John,

Did iphoneincanada.ca have any tips for extending the sub-six hour battery life of your iPhone 3G?

For my iPod Classic Video version 5, I purchased an external battery with belt-pack and leatherette case made by a company called iRecharge.

In the USA: www.FrysElectronics.com $23.95 + Tax and shipping.

This unit provides 16-hours of iPod use, and charges from USB just like iPods.
It also features four led's.which indicate the remaining charge on the battery.

It is slim enough to throw in a briefcase, or wear on your belt for Ultimate Fighter Workouts at your local gym.

It also came with a cell-boost module that provides an emergency one-time, eight hour talk-time battery for your cell-phone.

Maybe it would help Michael Kwan, with a bit of additional "cerebral-cortex-CPU-voltage" so that he does not crash his scooter or Segway v2.0?

Respectfully,

Nicholas Chase - 'the video guy' at BlogWorld Expo 2008

John,

Did iphoneincanada.ca have any tips for extending the sub-six hour battery life of your iPhone 3G?

For my iPod Classic Video version 5, I purchased an external battery with belt-pack and leatherette case made by a company called iRecharge.

This unit provides 16-hours of iPod use, and charges from USB just like iPods.
It also features four led's. which indicate the remaining charge on the battery.

It is slim enough to throw in a briefcase, or wear on your belt for Ultimate Fighter Workouts at your local gym.

It also came with a cell-boost module that provides an emergency one-time, eight hour talk-time battery for your cell-phone.

Maybe it would help Michael Kwan with a bit of CPU-voltage so that he does not crash his scooter or Segway v2.0?

Respectfully,

Nicholas Chase - 'the video guy' at BlogWorld Expo 2008

I will have to try this with mine! Very good idea indeed.

Thats cool...but I think any smart phone should be able to do ...your love for Apple has got you experimenting with its products :)

Can't use iPhone because it is not Verizon, which we need for business and coverage. However, I was able to tether my Blackberry Curve -which Verizon says is not possible :-)

Very happy that I can tether my Curve to MB Pro when traveling!

You can do this with about any Internet enabled smart phone can't you? I don't think it is a new concept, but it is still very cool.

Thanks John for showing how it's done.

Adam

awesome demo!

holly molly i wanna a macbook air!!!!

I heard that ATT could track these type of "usages" and may charge you extra money.

-Mike

Can we use iphone as a modem using bluetooth?

Thanks for sharing this info...

Great tools sir.. Can i use my SE P990i instead?

Okay I head a rumour that Rogers allows you to tether the iPhone without incurring stupid separate data charges. Has anyone confirmed this?

I know if I tether my blackberry to my laptop the unlimited dataplan my blackberry has with Bell is separate than if i were to tether.

Nice post John Chow.... indeed a power iPhone!

For a minute I thought I would be able to swap my broadband wireless modem for an iPhone - would be sweet. 912 kbps isn't bad, like you said you can work on it if needed, but seems a bit slow. My broadband modem does at least 1500/850 kbps in low coverage areas and that seems slow. Good to know that options exist!

It's a wireless modem, not so much a router. The Mac creates the network, the iPhone is just the modem.

Anyways, still very cool. I love NetShare on my iPhone (that i purchased from the App Store legally back in the day)

That's a pretty snazzy device there. That Iphone is nothing to be playing around with. I just wish I can get a few of you heavy hitters to submit a few sites to my directory for review. then and only then would i be able to play with such "toys"...lol

http://www.113dir.com

Nice work...I love PDAnet...here's instructions on how to set it up on your PC or Mac:

http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/tips-tricks/how-to-se...

it's amazing how much you've guys are into apple now . . . . . i love it!