Mike Hughes

By Mike Hughes.

Someone has come up with a way of enabling tethering on the iPhone without paying your network silly amounts for the privilege, and allowing those with providers that do not “support” tethering to make use of this wonderful new feature in iPhone OS 3.0.

Simply head over to help.BenM.at -

Choose the first option, “MobileConfigs”, then go through your country and carrier where you’ll eventually be provided with a download for a new “Profile”, choose install, you’ll be presented with a message telling you that the phone cannot verify the profile, hit install and you’re ready to go.

You can find tethering under settings -> general -> network. It needs to be switched on manually, and can be used over USB or Bluetooth.

I just tried it over USB and it appears to work very well, it provides windows with an “ethernet” device, over which the iPhone appears to act as a NAT gateway (residing on a non routable 192.x.x.x IP.

I haven’t had a chance to try this on 3G yet (No coverage where I live), but it worked ok under GPRS (Despite people saying it only works on the 3G connection!), albeit very slowly.

Enjoy