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iPhone as a Modem?
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Is it possible to use an iPhone as a Bluetooth Modem? I've been able to do this on my old verizon phones for years now (though I haven't done it much lately because wireless is everywhere). But there is ZERO internet where we go on vacation, and I'll have an iPhone by then. And I've love to be able to use the iphone to get my MacBook online. I don't plan on bittorrenting over it, just email, web, ichatting etc.
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This is not possible with the iPhone.
That may change in the future with software / hardware updates, but it would only be speculation.
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This should be "easily" possible once the SDK is live right? Not easy for me, but easy for a programmer? Simple NAT routing from cellular ip to bluetooth ip?
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Might depend on what the SDK gives access to, and what Apple 'allow' to put on the store.
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It's already possible if your phone is jailbroken — though even then it's a quite nasty hack.
You have to set up an ad-hoc network on your MBP, join it with the iPhone and access the internet through a proxy that runs the iPhone. Or something.
Here's the guide, haven't tried it myself yet:
Tethering the iPhone for OS X - Dragon Blog
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Originally Posted by moep 
It's already possible if your phone is jailbroken — though even then it's a quite nasty hack.
You have to set up an ad-hoc network on your MBP, join it with the iPhone and access the internet through a proxy that runs the iPhone. Or something.
Here's the guide, haven't tried it myself yet:
Tethering the iPhone for OS X - Dragon Blog
I can confirm that this method works surprisingly well and really only takes about 2 minutes to set up.
(Last edited by gradient; Apr 20, 2008 at 08:29 PM.
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Cool i'll definitely give that a shot.
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