App to Share your iPhone’s internet access with your laptop
Do you have an iPhone and hate paying for Internet access at the airport? Want your laptop to work in any Park or public place?
With tethering software, users can connect their iPhones to their laptops and utilize the 3G network they pay for through their AT&T data plans to get Internet access to their laptops. It?s really a rather wonderful thing, and is available on other networks like Verizon.
An app called NetShare from Nullriver briefly appeared in the iPhone app store in the evening of July 31st, for a price of $10. Unfortunately, it was gone in twenty minutes, and raised the hackles of more than a few iPhone users who want to fully utilize the bandwidth they have purchased and own.
But not so fast! The app is back in action here in the afternoon, noontime PST at this link. We don?t know if Apple is going to keep it up, or if AT&T has relented, but for now, it is available again. This would be the first legal way iPhone users have had to tether to their laptops.
I?m not sure if this works with Windows laptops or not. There is a note on the iTunes store that says it?s complicated to set up for Windows users, but apparently does work.
This may violate the AT&T terms of service, but it?s not known whether or not they can detect its usage. Word is that first-gen iPhone users who have unlocked tethering haven?t been caught.
Good luck!