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Tethering your iPhone: Accessing EDGE from your Laptop

Tuesday July 24, 2007 7:30 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
Here's another proof of concept that may become easier to accomplish over time. Cre.ations.net posts instructions on how to tether your iPhone -- allowing you to access EDGE internet from your laptop.

The instructions are a bit involved and require some knowledge of using the various hacking tools that give you more direct access to your iPhone. All the needed links/instructions are posted on the tutorial.

Forum user buzzert has posted a video accomplishing the same task (though we don't know if he used the same tutorial). The video demonstrates him browsing MacRumors from his Mac laptop.
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Kchino
Posted: 63 months ago
Unfortunately it's not for the faint of heart, i.e. if you have no idea how to begin modding your iPhone don't try it!

It relies on some of the tools developed by the iPhone dev team (these guys rock!) and makes use of a new app called srelay.

http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/tether-your-iphone
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dr_lha
Posted: 63 months ago
Using the iPhone as a modem is against the AT&T TOS. It will be interesting to see if AT&T reacts to this.
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pcguru83
Posted: 63 months ago

Using the iPhone as a modem is against the AT&T TOS. It will be interesting to see if AT&T reacts to this.

Using any phone as a modem without the tethering option is against the TOS, yet I know many people (including myself) who do so without incident. The TOS deal is a non-issue, unless you want to take the moral high ground.
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ZBoater
Posted: 63 months ago
Surfing the net on the iPhone on EDGE is painful enough. Going through this just to suffer even more on a laptop? :confused:
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iKwick7
Posted: 63 months ago

Surfing the net on the iPhone on EDGE is painful enough. Going through this just to suffer even more on a laptop? :confused:


Sometimes you NEED an internet connection. I would use my iPhone as a modem, once in a while, if I could.
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KD7IWP
Posted: 63 months ago
This is great! I wonder why AT&T is such a butt about tethering. I suppose they feel it will use more bandwidth than running the web on just your iPhone?
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Kchino
Posted: 63 months ago
Yeah unless you are abusing it (tethering), it's not a big deal. It is also likely that someone will write a nice little app to simplify this process. I'm excited about the potential for upcoming 3rd party apps that give us freedom from Apple. I have a feeling that they are beginning to let the ball slip out of their hands as far providing iPhone users with functionality that is needed .

How about a patch for the web vulnerabilities at least, sheesh, is that asking for too much?
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aristobrat
Posted: 63 months ago

How about a patch for the web vulnerabilities at least, sheesh, is that asking for too much?

The vulnerability that was announced yesterday? :confused:
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dr_lha
Posted: 63 months ago

Using any phone as a modem without the tethering option is against the TOS, yet I know many people (including myself) who do so without incident. The TOS deal is a non-issue, unless you want to take the moral high ground.

Hmm, is that right? I assumed that was just for the iPhone. Interesting. I have used tethering before on my SE T637 on AT&T.
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Kchino
Posted: 63 months ago

The vulnerability that was announced yesterday? :confused:


Well I could be mistaken but I'm almost positive there is more than one vulnerability. Also, the security firm ISE informed Apple about several issues on 7/17(along with patches) and plans to report the rest of their findings at the Black Hat Conference on the 2nd of August if Apple doesn't patch them by then.
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