[abobader]

Originally Posted by 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

You put that in the iphone:
Settings - General - Network - Cellular Data Network - MMS

My best

[Boidy]

Originally Posted by 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.

An access point (APN) is an entry point into their network, where they can monitor the amount of bandwidth you use. At the moment, we are using the same APN for tethering and for mobile browsing, but pretty soon they will have a seperate APN for tethering specifically, so they can monitor it seperately and charge you different rates (presumably).

Think of it as having 2 seperate internet service providers at your house. One you use for sending the occasional email, and the other you use for heavy downloading. In this example, they would be able to monitor your email usage, and you download usage seperately, and charge you different rates on each account. If however, you forced your heavy downloads through your 'light usage' account, they would see an increase in the amount of data being used on that link. So they would be able to tell your usage had gone up, but I don't think they can poll your device to see how you did it.

What they can, and probably will do, once they have the tethering APN active, is send your phone instructions, to use the new APN for tethering, so that they can charge you specifically for tethering and not for other data usage.

To answer another question, I am using Windows Vista with USB tethering. I haven't tried bluetooth yet.

[bobby563]

Hi,
I installed the APN and then tethering showed up but when I touch it it says something like "contact T-Mobile to enable tethering for this account". I have a 3G and I didn't have tethering option before installing the APN. Plus I cant access any MMS configurations that some of you talk about.

[playeron87]

not working for me!!! it saids "to enable tethering on this account, contact AT&T" f no.......

[s4mb4]

Originally Posted by abobader

You put that in the iphone:
Settings - General - Network - Cellular Data Network - MMS

My best

darn, that setting is missing on my phone even though i have the tether option...

[Boidy]

Originally Posted by playeron87

not working for me!!! it saids "to enable tethering on this account, contact AT&T" f no.......

Ok, this is what you see when the iPhone is looking for an tethering specific APN which it doesn't know about. The mobileconfig file has to be modified to allow tethering on the existing APN.

DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Download a copy of the mobileconfig to your PC/Mac so you can open it up in a text editor.

Scroll through it until you see something like what is shown below:

PHP Code:

 <dict>
    <key>apn</key>
    <string>orangeinternet</string>
    <key>username</key>
    <string></string>
    <key>type-mask</key>
    <integer>49</integer>
    </dict> 


The last 2 lines (type-mask & integer lines) are probably missing from your config. This is what tells the iPhone to use the same APN for internet and tethering. Add them to the file, save it, and then email it as an attachment to yourself so you can pick it up on your iPhone. Open the attachment on the iPhone and it should apply the new settings.

[MiPhoan]

Added the 2 lines, but it didn't help. I still get "To enable tethering on this account, contact AT&T." Any other sugestions

[businesssuit]

It worked perfectly for tethering, I am on ATT using windows XP.

USB method
I went to network settings, create a new connection - Connect to the internet > Choose from a list of internet service providers > Get on line with MSN and clicked Finish then looked at the iphone 3G and at the top of the phone turned blue. Opened up interent explorer and I was on yahoo.com

Worked great for me!!!!

[Boidy]

Originally Posted by MiPhoan

How do you download mobileconfig on a phone that hasn't been jailbroken?

It doesn't need to be jailbroken.. just email the file to yourself as an attachment. Then access your email account from your iPhone, open up the message and click on the attachment.

[fluffer]

right folks, as you can see i'm tethered according to my phone.



below is the screen from my macbook pro showing that i'm connected also, but when i turn my wifi off i have no connection. any ideas???

the only reason i turn my wifi off is because i can't tell if my home network is connecting me or the tether? do i need my wifi on even though it's a bluetooth connection?

if so, i have tried creating or joining other network and can't see my phone in there.

i'm stuck, help me guys....and gals!

[Otacon132]

Originally Posted by s4mb4

darn, that setting is missing on my phone even though i have the tether option...

ive been trying to figure this out but without any luck. Most people are still complaining about getting their phones activated and unlocked.

I believe that setting will be available once we manually edit the ipcc file or something via SSH. So gotta wait for a jailbreak as of now i believe

[shreck81]

Hey everybody u should check out tysiphonehelp.com says he has a .ippc that turns on mms and tethering for iPhone,don't know if it works but details at the website if anybody gets it working please let everybody and me know.

[iphoneroeth]

I installed it (2G) and the profile is there.
I can't seem to figure out how to tether, though.
Any help please?

[MiPhoan]

I fixed mine by using the IPCC file from
Unlockit - APN Changer for your iPhone

Works like a charm now.

If you're on iTunes 8.2 you need to read
Uploading IPCC files via Itunes 8.2
as well.

[travis_t80]

Worked like a champ.