by Marshall Brain | July 23, 2008
Your iPhone has everything necessary for it to become a wifi hot spot for your laptop. You would connect your laptop to the iPhone using wifi, and then the phone would route the laptop to the internet using its 3G connection.
The only problem is that Apple/AT&T don’t allow it.
Now you can get around the ban. Step 1 is to jailbreak your iPhone:
Jailbreak iPhone 2.0 with PwnageTool
Then use these instructions:
Get Your Computer Online Using Your iPhone’s Data Connection
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