iPhone: September 2007 Archives

This method does not currently work on the 3g or 2.0 iPhone software, as soon as I get it working I will post a link here to those directions.

So I am leaving this week to drive 10,000 Miles, which I will be posting more about later. At the same time I am enrolled in college and have some course work to complete. I will of course have my laptop with me but I was a little nervous about being able to find wifi hotspots out in the middle of nowhere America.

I do have my iPhone of course but it does not have a decent text editor nor does it provide me an ideal platform for doing school work or prolonged web browsing. The solution? I needed to tether my laptop to my iPhone.

For those of you who are not familiar with tethering, it is when you use your cell phone signal as a method of connecting your laptop to the internet. In the case of the iPhone I will be using EDGE to get online. Its not fast but it will do the job.

Below I will provide very detailed instructions on getting this going, not because it is too hard but because there are a lot of uninformed people out there that might want to try this.

Instructions after the jump