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iPad iPhone and China
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I have a iPad (WiFi only version), iPhone and am going to China for 1 week. How can I access internet without being in the hotel?
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Depending on where you go in China, 3G reception (for the iPhone) varies from completely nonexistent within a hundred-mile radius to acceptable reception more or less everywhere. You’ll be paying through the nose for it, of course.
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Right, I do understand that, but because I need to get internet on the iPad and only have the WiFi version. But I have the 3G on the iPhone, isn't there some way that I can link the two to get access to the iPad?
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Oh, you meant specifically on the iPad.
As far as I recall from previous threads about this, it was at some point specifically stated that tethering from the iPhone to an iPad is not supported and will not work.
Not sure if someone’s found a way around it or anything, though; this was a while ago …
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Thank you for the quick reply and knowledge you presented. Question solved.
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If your iPhone is from a carrier that allows tethering, turn on wifi tethering. If you're on AT&T you're SOL.
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Originally Posted by mduell
If your iPhone is from a carrier that allows tethering, turn on wifi tethering. If you're on AT&T you're SOL.
I thought the problem was that the iPad wouldn’t be able to recieve a tethered connection?
Or am I misremembering and switching phone and pad around? Was it that the iPad would only not be able to tether its connection outward?
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Originally Posted by Oisín
I thought the problem was that the iPad wouldn’t be able to recieve a tethered connection?
To the iPad it's just any other wifi access point.
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Nonsense. Oisin's right. Tethering and wifi access points are two totally different issues.
You tether to the iPhone over BT. That's something the iPad can't do. The iPod touch can't either.
To get 3G data on an iPad wifi you'd need a 3G to wifi adapter (like the Sprint Overdrive or the Verizon MiFi).
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Er right, I was thinking of the jailbreak tethering apps not the Apple way.
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Riiiight.
Originally Posted by mduell
If your iPhone is from a carrier that allows tethering, turn on wifi tethering. If you're on AT&T you're SOL.
Wifi tethering on the iPhone = tethering over BT.
Jailbreak tethering is independent of the carrier. Actually, if you were to jailbreak you'd actually not be SOL on AT&T.
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Last edited by Simon; May 20, 2010 at 06:58 PM.
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I confused the capabilities of the jailbreak tethering apps with the capabilities of the built in tethering.
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You sure did. So yeah,
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