Tethering on an iPhone for PC

Credit: Dougbelchaw

Credit: Dougbelchaw

My consultancy has had a home at The Network Hub for over a year now, so I really haven’t had much need for wireless access outside of my office. However, given that I do a lot of research field trips, and being the case that I’m away from Vancouver today, I reflected on the fact that I may, at some point, need some form of non-coffee-shop wireless access. As you may all know, I don’t have an iPhone.

The truth is, the one thing that probably is swaying me the most (in addition to possibly responding to tweets and emails on the go) is the idea of tethering. I’m not sure what the cost on the data plan is going to be (I’m doing work today remotely with an iPhone, tethering on my PC laptop) but I figure that it should at least be a possibility. I wasn’t really sure whether it would really work with my PC as my laptop is not a Mac, but I have to hand it to Apple – as I said on Twitter.

Successfully tethering (on a PC), borrowed iPhone. Very clever, Apple. Your device tethers *even* w/ PCs, & seamlessly.

Now, I might need to start looking into an iPhone data plan and contract.

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November 28th, 2009 in geekifying myself

Comments (1)

Richard SmithNovember 28th, 2009 at 1:24 pm

I tether all the time* with my iPhone. I have a 1gb data plan ($30/mo) and never really notice the impact – my total data consumption rarely goes over 200gb/month even with tethering.

* by “all the time” I mean regularly, but not for long periods of time. Also, I don’t do system updates, watch lots of video, that sort of thing. But I do use skype, which works well.

Essentially, it is a portable high speed modem – better than “lite” adsl or cable service but not like a campus or office connection.

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