CAN THE IPHONE4 ACT AS A MODEM FOR MY PC?

Use my desire tethered all the time at the moment in my Orange contract, teathering us just down to the software capabilities of the phone, nothing to do with contract. It has been superb since the android 2.2 update too using the access point functionality too.
 
OK, then how does one get tethering to work on T Mobile given that the contract says it does not allow tethering? My wife has an HTC Wildfire with T Mobile and we would like to use it when we are away to power my netbook. We are told to download a file but there is no trace of it.
 
prescott28 said:
OK, then how does one get tethering to work on T Mobile given that the contract says it does not allow tethering? My wife has an HTC Wildfire with T Mobile and we would like to use it when we are away to power my netbook. We are told to download a file but there is no trace of it.
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he fella, plug the wild fire into the net book via USB you will be prompted to install an android driver onto the netbook. this is required. im not kidding once its done all you do is connect whenever you want via your phone (USB) on the wildfire, drag the screen down, click internet sharing and thats it! and for the recrord, t-mobile do allow it, as long as you stay withing the fair usage policy 500mb per month
 
as soon as you connect your phone, the pc will treat it as a removable disk (just like any other USB drive) open the removeble disk. copy HTCSync to your computer double click and follow intructions
 
Possibly worth mentioning to balance out the Apple bashing (for the record I am not even close to being a fan of Apple...) Tethering is something pretty much all smartphones can do, my old WinMo 6.1 could do it, and i'm pretty sure that the iphone has been able to do it from the 3G onwards.

It's purely a carrier decision as to whether they allow you to do it or not, and even then they aren't consistent.

For example, Almost at the same time I and my old house mate got new contracts on Orange, both similar cept he got a HTC Desire and I got a Samsung Galaxy S.

My Galaxy S tethered out of the box, his Desire did not. After spending 45 minutes on the phone to Orange tech support, they eventually worked out that their policy was to block tethering on the Desire by default until the customer phoned up, but not the Galaxy S.

Go figure...
 
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