With the upcoming iPhone OS 3.0, Apple has announced support for tethering. Whether your local carrier would allow it is another matter altogether. Even if your carrier will support it, chances are you won’t get access to it without a fee. However, if you have a jailbroken iPhone, tethering has been around for a while and is free.
All the tethering applications are available via Cydia which is the application installer that is automatically installed when you jailbreak your iPhone. There are various tools for tethering such as Netshare, the nagware iPhoneModem, the free iPhoneModem, and my preffered app of choice called PdaNet.
PdaNet supports tethering via USB which is my preferred method because you no longer need to configure an adhoc network and your iPhone remains charging while you are using the connection. Both iPhoneModem versions in my experience are complicated and don’t always work out of the box. The free version of iPhoneModem is also hard to configure and has no documentation if you want to use it with Windows and not OSX. With PdaNet, you can use any application that needs a connection to the internet instead of configuring proxies and only being able to use applications that support SOCKS.
Save yourself the time, if you are using Windows, use PdaNet.
Tethering Your iPhone to your Windows PC
With the upcoming iPhone OS 3.0, Apple has announced support for tethering. Whether your local carrier would allow it is another matter altogether. Even if your carrier will support it, chances are you won’t get access to it without a fee. However, if you have a jailbroken iPhone, tethering has been around for a while and is free.
All the tethering applications are available via Cydia which is the application installer that is automatically installed when you jailbreak your iPhone. There are various tools for tethering such as Netshare, the nagware iPhoneModem, the free iPhoneModem, and my preffered app of choice called PdaNet.
PdaNet supports tethering via USB which is my preferred method because you no longer need to configure an adhoc network and your iPhone remains charging while you are using the connection. Both iPhoneModem versions in my experience are complicated and don’t always work out of the box. The free version of iPhoneModem is also hard to configure and has no documentation if you want to use it with Windows and not OSX. With PdaNet, you can use any application that needs a connection to the internet instead of configuring proxies and only being able to use applications that support SOCKS.
Save yourself the time, if you are using Windows, use PdaNet.