I spent no time trying to get a USB connection to work so you’re on your own there.

If you don’t have a Bluetooth connection, there’s spiffy $20 Bluetooth USB dongles that should work. Since most modern laptops have Bluetooth, that’s not much of a problem. One major point is that the iTunes-less internet tethering requires a Bluetooth connection. My operating system is Windows 7 圆4 but I suspect this might work for other operating systems but don’t know for sure. The following instructions might work with phones other than the iPhone 4, but I haven’t tested any other combinations. Obviously you need to be set up with AT&T (or your service provider if outside the US) and have purchased the tethering plan before attempting these steps. Even better, I didn’t have to jail break or hack the iPhone at all. It turned out to be far easier than I ever would have guessed! I’m fully tethered and nary an iTunes or Apple service in sight. As I’ve hacked through Apple’s installers before, and have been doing Windows development far too long, I set out to see if I could get just the hardware drivers without the rest of iTunes.

All I needed were the device drivers for the iPhone, not the rest of the stuff in the package. With my upgrade to iPhone 4 (which I can’t rave enough about because it fixed all my dropped call problems), I realized to use the iPhone for tethering to get an internet connection, I was looking at installing iTunes, which was filling me with dread.Īs iTunes was downloading, I was thinking I was going to be installing a truck load of programs and services just to get an attachment to the iPhone. As I use OSX for all my music, photo, and video needs, I’ve never needed to run iTunes on my Windows machines.

My wife has iTunes on her PC and it’s been a hassle at times. While Apple makes wonderful software for OSX, iTunes on the PC is well, how can I say this, umm, kind of big and fat. Anyway, the downside to using an iPhone on a PC is that you need to install iTunes. Those of you outside the US that have had iPhone tethering for years can feel free to laugh all you want now. AT&T has finally enabled internet tethering so you can use your iPhone as a 3G connection.

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