The Only One Reason to Jailbreak Your iPhone: Full Internet Tethering

The Word is out:  Netshare Sux, iPhone Modem Sux

Our post -  Need a reason to jailbreak your iPhone? Here's ten of them just got shorter!

You need only one reason to jailbreak your iPhone - PDAnet

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PDAnet provides FULL INTERNET on your computer through the iPhone since it acts as Wifi router.

Let's get started with configuration and install:

1. Install PDAnet via Cydia on your jailbroken iPhone (use these guides if you need help with jailbreak QuickPwn Mac, Windows, and Pwnage Tool Mac)

2. When you first start PDAnet, you will get the screen that you need to configure your ad-hoc network on your computer and then connect your iPhone to it.

3. Configure your ad-hoc network on your computer

Follow steps 1 and 2 from our Netshare Configuration Guide

4. Open Wi-Fi Networks settings on your iPhone and pick your ad-hoc network.

We called ours - PdaNet

5. Open PDAnet application

You are done, you are tethering, you feel connected to the world.

Can we call it the shortest tethering guide ever?

Some configuration benchmarks from our prior experience:

Netshare set-up - 15 minutes (no full Internet access)
iPhone Modem Set-up - 7 minutes (no full Internet access)
PDAnet set-up - 3 minutes (full Internet access)

More about PDAnet

Note of caution: You may think that you have unlimited bandwidth from your provider. Verify your terms of use since if you go over limit you will be paying extra.  So  use this connection method only when you have no other options.

Comments

[andy]

See, I tried this the day it came out without any luck. PdaNet would either not recognize that I was connected to a WiFi network, or it would not recognize that I was connected to my carrier. I could disable Wifi and get the carrier connection to work, or go into airplane mode to get the wifi connection working, but never both as the same time. Any idea what that's about?

[Joss]

use it to read "URL TROLL WAS HERE" on tha bus

[Scott]

You're doing it wrong. You have to get a successful AdHoc network set up. So, you don't want to disable wifi (but you may need to use the forget this connection option if you're testing near your router). The software will automatically pull data down through 3G/EDGE/whatev but you have to have wifi on, and try setting the IP to static on your iPhone's AdHoc connection (use the arrow, and for IP Address, select the Static tab, I didn't actually change the address). Also, when you get that prompt about making sure to connect on the iPhone in AdHoc mode, try reconnecting again with wifi on your laptop.

It took me a good hour or two to figure this all out. Didn't help I had to use a secure connection on my work laptop to config the Wifi....

[Scott]

Also, you should have a 169.x.x.x IP address on both the phone and computer.

[Matthew]

I got this working yesterday no problem. The speeds were surprisingly high. With edge I got about 178kbps Down and 60 kbps Up. On 3G I got 1200kbps Down! and I think around 160kbps Up.

[z]

Nothing special, just regular routing -- try doing it through the AppStore and see if Apple lets you. Exactly. NetShare did it without breaking any AppStore rules, but of course they still took it down. Ah well. This isn't going to make me jailbreak, there isn't much reason to jailbreak at all anymore.

[exxn]

yeah, but you have to scar your iphone with PdaNet's icon of Internet Explorer. That's a significant price to pay for Mac users. ;)

[patbon]

You can easily apply yourown icon. Since mac users think they're computer gods this should be no problem. Also, anti jailbeaker man, I don't quite understand your argument. Are you saying this just isn't worth it, and neither is jailbreaking in general? It so, you should really try it. Theming the god awful ugly dock of the iPhone is reason enough

[business]

Damn it, I thought my jailbreak days are over. I guess not. Here I go!

[drico]

can i effectivly use this as a wifi dongle for my laptop on ipod touh?

[Joe B]

forgive my ignorance, but what about the internet on the iPhone pre-PDAnet/Jailbreak is not "FULL INTERNET"?

[Choee]

"forgive my ignorance, but what about the internet on the iPhone pre-PDAnet/Jailbreak is not "FULL INTERNET"? "

You missed the "tethering" part of the headline...full internet tethering..please read..at a minimum the headline..before posting...geez

[nick]

Reason to Jailbreak the iPhone:

Cycorder

End of argument. Jailbreak for video/audio recording with cycorder, makes it 100% worth the troubles!

[shai]

Brilliant! I was having real problems tethering a Linux eeepc. This worked straight away. Thank you so much. Reason 1 to jailbreak is cycorder, but this is a pretty close second!

[Whistler]

Dude, Jailbreak totally ROCKS. I love it.

Jiff
URL TROLL WAS HERE

[Jon]

Lame.

This is no different than the others. Wake me up when there's a zero config one that's really a router.

[mel]

I've tried NetShare, iPhoneModem, and plain old socks via MobileTerminal and this is the best solution I've come across so far.

PDANet runs in the background unlike NetShare and iPhoneModem so you can use your phone for other tasks while sharing its internet connection.

It also eliminates the need for proxying whereas the other 3 options forced you to setup a Proxy or use Proxifier.

The only thing it lacks is ability to stop your iPhone from going to continue sharing your internet after the phone locks and goes to sleep so you still have to run Insomnia.

[directed at jon]

your an asshole jon. You are one of those people....

the ones who would bitch about how free gold was delivered to your door. The app your looking for is call F-u-c-k-o-f-f.

I hope you brick your iphone you dick.

btw it is zero configuration and you are too retarded to read.

[Joe B]

@ Choee: Thanks for the worthless response. I read the headline... my question still stands. Thanks to the comments of users with the ability to post worthwhile messages I was able to figure it out. Without jail-breaking the phone you cannot tether. I didn't realize iPhones could not tether out of the box. I am not an apple fan boy nor do I own an iphone.. sorry I don't know every detail of every phone on the market. I'll be sure to study up next time. Ass.

[Free Apple Gear]

Yup. That's a pretty good reason. I would do it for that reason.

[Robert]

Exactly how is this "full Internet"?

[mrbungle]

to all wondering about the "full Internet" it is a router vs a proxy. Google it.

[Jon]

@btw it is zero configuration and you are too retarded to read.

That's funny, because what I'm reading—I must be hallucinating—is a series of instructions about ad hoc networks. On Windows Mobile phone, which is admittedly a piece of shit and utterly useless compared to my iPhone, I can simply run an app, and BANG, my computer is tethered. I don't have to do ad hoc networks... it simply shows up as a hotspot, or in the alternative, as a bluetooth network.

Thanks for playing, try again.

[NObama]

please think rationally before voting for a one term senator to be our leader!!<------- POLITICAL TROLL WAS HERE

[Scott]

WTF?! This is about iPhone tethering, not political teething. Go cry somewhere else about gramps bad poll numbers against Obama. One term nat senator, but gramps backup is a 1/2 term governor of northern exposure.