iphone 3G tethering on Fido
Posted by Jeffrey on Jul 3, 2009
I spent a few minutes yesterday setting up tethering on my iPhone 3G using Fido (actually Rogers, but that’s another story). It didn’t take that long once I actually realized that you need a few things to make it happen:
- A PC (in my case a HP dv6000 Laptop running Windows Vista Home Premium)
- iPhone 3G with the iPhone 3.0 or better update
- iTunes 8.2 or better
- Either Bluetooth (don’t have it on my laptop:<, or the USB cable from the iPhone)
- 3G or EDGE coverage (not a problem in the city, but maybe in outlying areas)
- A big data bucket!
The reason I set it up is that we are going out of the city and I want a way to check email etc without using (shudder) dial-up.)
So after updating my iTunes on Vista and restarting it was just a matter of going to Settings->General->Network ->Internet Tethering and turning it on. Then I hooked up the USB cable to the port on the side of the laptop and Vista recognized it as another broadband connection in Network and Sharing Center.
To test it I shut off the wireless on the laptop and found that I could surf at a pretty speedy pace on the iPhone. Pretty neat although I’d want to be careful what I did online to make sure I stay within my data bucket. Well, not really because I have a 6GB limit, but I don’t want to be pulling down too many movies from iTunes!
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Just a quick note that I used tethering last week when I was out of the city and apart from having to initially restart the HP Laptop, it worked great! I got speeds that I found were a bit slower than my home WiFi connection, but it sure beat using dial up like we did the previous year.