One of the much wanted features to be made available with the iPhone 3.0 software beta – alongside MMS – is tethering via USB and Bluetooth. Reader Jennifer from Axiom software has sent us a pretty awesome guide to tethering your iPhone to your laptop via Bluetooth for Australians. While we haven’t tried it ourselves (no iPhone 3.0 beta to play with, unfortunately), she claims that it’s pretty stable and works well. Here’s how to do it:
1. Visit http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/?tag=iphone3.0 and download the tethering file and follow instructions to update your phone, ensuring that you reboot at the end.
2. Once phone has rebooted go into Settings > Network > Internet Tethering > and turn on tethering.
3. Ensure your phone has been paired to your computer.
4. Right click on the bluetooth icon in your status bar and select Join a Personal Network
5. Click Add to add your device. Your iphone should then be detected and then follow the prompts to finish this process.
6. In the list of Bluetooth Devices you should see the iphone listed as an access point. Click on this and then click connect.
7. When tethered correctly a bar indicating the phone is in tethering mode will appear at the top of the iphone screen.
She was using a Vista laptop for the process, but it should still be fairly similar for Macs or XP.
If you’ve got a copy of the iPhone 3.0 beta, give it a go and let us know how it works in comments.
[Whirlpool - Thanks Jennifer!]
walexx
April 24, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Omg I have been stuffing around for days trying to figure it out. This could not be any simpler, and works like a charm :).
Report PermalinkMark Donohoe
April 26, 2009 at 8:09 AM
Hmmm. I’m on a Mac. Advice worked well on the Telstra network on OS3.0 beta 3 until the line “4. Right click on the bluetooth icon in your status bar and select Join a Personal Network”. I right clicked (AND option AND shift AND command) with no option to “Join a Personal Network” appearing. Anyone have any ideas on how to finish the job (ie steps 4 to end) on a Mac?
Report PermalinkPaul
June 19, 2009 at 10:49 PM
my iphone 3g os3.0 will not pair with my Dell Vista Laptop.
Report PermalinkNeither sees the other when trying to connect via bluetooth!! What gives????
Curtis C. Martin
September 9, 2011 at 7:17 AM
Well Paul – I had a similar issue, then had my Dell laptop reformatted; so it may be a matter of a virus or some such.
Good luck.
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