Remember NetShare app on AppStore which allowed surfing the web using iPhone’s WiFi/3G? This tethering app was removed by Apple with 2-3days. Rumors pointed finger at AT&T which might have influenced Apple in getting rid of this app.
TechCrunch has shared this news in its blog:
In an interview with Michael Arrington at the Web 2.0 Summit, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De La Vega let it be known that an official, AT&T sanctioned method of using the iPhone as a 3G modem for a laptop is on the way “soon”.
Lets wait and see how soon can we start seeing NetShare like apps on AppStore.
If you are one amongst many iPhone user, who miss NetShare at times, there is now iModem. Pretty cool concept. But you will need to jailbreak your iPhone. This is the saddest aspect of this iModem. Let me share the features of this app with you, even though I wont be jailbreaking my iPhone 3G just yet.
iModem - Connect to the internet via iPhone!
Program’s features:
# Use iPhone (and iPhone 3G) as 3G, EDGE, GPRS, WI-FI modem for PC.
# You need only USB-cable, whitch is included into iPhone’s complect
# Speed of data transmission is about 5 Mbit/s if connect through WI-FI
# Automatic installation of the program on iPhone
# Program doesn’t use iPhone’s resources when it doesn’t work
# Automatically restores connection at fail of communication
# Feature - “tunnelling” connections and traffic
System requirements:
# OS: Windows 2000, XP, Vista 32/64 bit
# RAM: 64 Mb
# iTunes version 7.5 or higher
# “Jailbreaking” iPhone with firmware 1.1.?, 2.0.x, 2.1
NetSharetethering app is back on AppStore. For more on hat NetShare is, please follow this post. Basically NetShare is an iPhone 3G tethering app allowing multiple computers to share 3G connection from iPhone 3G connectivity. I got this update from NullRiver’s message to TUAW:
TUAW had received a reply from NullRiver, as follows: “Hi, NetShare is back on the Apple Store, hopefully for good this time! We’re not quite sure why Apple took down the NetShare application yet, we’ve received no communication from Apple thus far. NetShare did not violate any of the Developer or AppStore agreements to our knowledge. It is unknown how mobile phone carriers may react to using the program. Or if they are even in a position to tell. My personal advice is to not go NUTS just yet by downloading tons. Also be aware that contracts/carriers vary in what they offer from country to country, please be careful your service doesn’t have a metered limit, that if you go over may incur extra costs for you.”
NetShare is the first Tethering Native App for iPhone. With NetShare, one can use iPhone 3G’s 3G connectivity to browse on his laptop wirelessly (tethering).
Share your iPhone’s EDGE or 3G Internet connection with your computer using NetShare. NetShare provides a SOCKS5 proxy for your computer to connect to.
Nullriver, Inc. is the company behind NetShare. This application works by multiple users as well. This would help more than one computer to be connected to iPhone and browse simultaneously.
But there seems to be a problem already. Even though Apple approved this application and added to AppStore, Macrumor has just revealed that this app has been removed from AppStore. Here is what Macrumor had to say:
The application appears to have gone missing from the App Store. While the application listing still appears, if you try to purchase it now, iTunes says “The item you tried to buy is no longer available”.
This works on Jailbroken iPhone 3G. So if you don’t want to unlock your iPhone, please don’t try this. I got these instructions from Macrumors. It originally comes from the geeks at cre.ations.net. So here it goes:
Warning - Tethering your iPhone is against the iPhone data plan terms. AT&T could slap you with huge fees if you overuse this. I recommend only using it during emergencies.
Step 1: Jailbreak your iPhone - Windows users click here for instructions and Mac users - click here
Step 2: Install 3Proxy and Terminal During the jailbreak, Cydia should have appeared on one of your app pages. Use it and let Cydia load and self-update. Then head to Install, All Packages, then find MobileTerminal and 3Proxy (3Proxy is at the bottom). Install both and hit your Home button. Your phone will restart and you’ll see Terminal installed on your home screen. 3Proxy isn’t a GUI app and as such won’t have an icon.
Step 3: Create an ad-hoc Wifi network using your laptop
Using whatever wireless software suite you have, create an ad-hoc network. On a Mac it’s in the Airport menu, under “Create network…”. Name it something inconspicuous. I called mine “baladoux”.
On your iPhone, join the ad-hoc network.
Step 4: Find your iPhone’s IP address
Then, hit the blue arrow next to it, and wait for your IP address to show up. Memorize (or write down) this IP address. You will need it later.
Step 5: Open Terminal and run the proxy program
Simple enough. Open Terminal, type “socks” and hit return. Nothing will appear to happen, but the SOCKS server will be running. You can hit the home button to push Terminal to the background (remember to terminate it later, by switching back to Terminal and holding the Home button until it closes).
Step 6: Open Safari on the iPhone and open a web page
Any page will do. This step is important. The page will take a while to load. When Safari realizes it can’t get to the Internet using the ad-hoc Wifi, it will do some internal magic to switch back to 3G for Internet while still on your ad-hoc network. That lets the proxy do its thing.
Step 7: Configure your browser
In Firefox, head to Preferences, and under Advanced, Network, hit Settings. Then, fill in the iPhone’s IP address (which you memorized earlier) into the SOCKS Host field, and put 1080 as the port number. Make sure all other proxy fields are blank and/or 0. Then, since the proxy doesn’t forward DNS, you will also have to change an advanced option in Firefox. In the Firefox URL bar, enter “about:config” and hit Enter.
In Filter, type “socks” and then double-click “network.proxy.socks_remote_dns” to make its value “true”.
That should be all you need! Firefox should be able to browse the Internet through your iPhone’s 3G connection.
Hi, I have been using this awesome invention called iPhone in Bangalore, India from November 2007 and have gone nutzzz over this.
Nuts to an extent that I have started my own blog on iPhone. I will be covering various developments happening around Apple iPhone. Will cover everything and anything which is even remotely connected to the iPhone. But will put more emphasis on iPhone news and buzz from an Indian perspective.
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