{"id":40,"date":"2007-06-27T08:41:46","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T14:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=40"},"modified":"2007-08-16T20:38:22","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T02:38:22","slug":"tethering-an-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Tethering an iPhone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is there such a lack of information on whether the iPhone has the capability of tethering to a laptop in order to gain access to AT&#038;T&#8217;s EDGE for dialup networking (DUN)?  I&#8217;m determined to find the answer and hopefully before the launch date on Friday.  I have a sinking feeling that the iPhone will not be allowed to tether to a laptop\/computer.  How else could AT&#038;T justify to themselves an unlimited data plan to iPhone users that is substantially less than other smartphone plans?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, back to the point.  I know that many Apple Geniuses and salespeople have finished their training (not to mention the AT&#038;T folks), so surely someone, out of the several thousand who were trained, asked this same question.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, and if you get in towards the front of the line at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/retail\/rosedalecenter\">Rosedale<\/a> store this Friday, please save a spot for me.  I&#8217;ll even bring some treats with.<\/p>\n<p>***Update, July 4, 2007***<br \/>\nAs many of you have probably already found out, tethering is not possible with the iPhone, right now.  I anticipate that Apple will add this functionality in a future update.<\/p>\n<p>***Update, August 10, 2007***<br \/>\nI&#8217;m glad someone was able to figure out a way to make this happen&#8230;  It doesn&#8217;t appear to be the easiest hack to implement, but its now &#8220;possible&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cre.ations.net\/blog\/post\/tether-your-iphone\">http:\/\/cre.ations.net\/blog\/post\/tether-your-iphone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is there such a lack of information on whether the iPhone has the capability of tethering to a laptop in order to gain access to AT&#038;T&#8217;s EDGE for dialup networking (DUN)? I&#8217;m determined to find the answer and hopefully &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=40\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}