[xandr115]

Oh Crap, not only does it work, it flies! I bluetooth tether using an AT&T Bold and I can only get half of the speed I got from this... AT BEST! Did a speedtest at Speedtest.net and got

1.78 Mbps Down
0.23 Mbps Up

that's crazy.

[ronblade]

So AT & T is giving access to all all iPhone owner to get a touch of wifi effect. It's rally good to know.I have stared following the instructions and its working nice so far.

[NissanGoddess]

i got the settings rite but for some reason my phone an macbook will not pair!! what do i do

[lopbird33]

hmmm is there a specific reason I don't have the tethering option in my settings? I'm on 2G...

[irich25]

3g only =/

[lopbird33]

rats. thanks for clearing that up

[hevey]

hi after installing the APN for my iphone i dont get tethering option in my settings.

i am using telstra.iph in australia anyone else could confirm if this is working or not would be greatly appreciated

[tattoojack]

thanks BenM and cash!

[fluffer]

thanks for this great tip.

but something is a bit weird. when i pair with my mbp everything seems ok. then i find that my wifi is still connected to my home network and when i turn wifi off i lose the tether even though it's through bluetooth.

i'm a little worried about charges too, any way to verify them?

can we just have a small tutorial please for the procedure after installing on phone. as far as i know i have done everything right, but looks like somethings amiss.

thanks again, just a little more info would be super dooper!

[Boidy]

I've managed to get tethering working on Orange UK (legit unlocked 3G) by making my own mobile config file. To clear up the question about extra charges, that very much depends on the mobileconfig file itself and whether your carrier has a separate apn for tethering.
I think that carriers are setting up new APNs specifically for tethering, so that they can monitor and charge for tethering, independantly from MMS and GPRS/3G access. I think that is what AT&T and O2 UK are planning to do.
As I'm with an unofficial carrier (Orange UK), there won't be a tethering specific APN, so using the mobileconfig file, I can tell the iPhone to use my normal data plan APN for tethering.
I believe having looked at 1 or 2 of the files at help.benm.at that, that is what he has doen to enable tethering. That is why, even though the likes of AT&T say they don't support tethering yet (as they haven't gone live with the new APN to monitor and charge for it), you can get tethering to work. I expect once they do go live, they will force a mobile setting update, and will probaly overwite the mobileconfig files, to force you to use the new APN settings. That isn't to say, you can't overwite the old ones back, but do so at your own risk.

As for cost, of course if you use tethering a lot, your bandwidth usage is going to increase on your normal data plan. It may eventually be cheaper to use the official tethering APN once it goes live, but in the meantime, using tethering is going to cost you the same as mobile browsing on 3G/GPRS on the iPhone costs you now.

This is not gospel, its just my understanding of how its working.

Now if I could only figure out why MMS keeps failing...

[fluffer]

well i used the 02uk contract tether option and i'd be worried they could monitor this.
boidy, are you tethering through bluetooth? how do you know you re actually connected through BT and not on your normal network? are you on a mac?

[reeko]

Can you supply me with the info for Orange uk to get MMS and tethering working please?! Have some friends using Orange.

Working on O2 UK over bluetooth and usb lead. Thanks!

[fluffer]

reeko, are you on a mac?

how are you doing it?

i'm connected and paired but when i turn my wifi off it's not working?

i'm using the 02uk tether too btw.

[Rob_Quads]

Would the carrier in any way be able to tell that you have enabled the tethering switch in the OS.
I mean detect the switch being flicked rather than downloads i.e. detect you are using 'offical' tethering rather than a jailbreak solution wherre all the could tell is your usage has gone up.

[gatorob]

I noticed that the MMS Setting are also available on the same page. Does anyone know how to enable this?

APN: wap.cingular
USER: wap@cingulargprs.com
PW: CINGULAR1
MMSC: mmsc.cingular.com
PROXY: 66.209.11.32