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Offline DC90

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Iphone 4 Personal Hotspot
« on: 20 July 2011, 22:38 »
Having a little trouble trying to get this working.
I've got an iphone 4 running 4.3 on 3 network. Personal hotspot is switched on and password setup.
I have a macbook and when I open network preferences it doesn't see the iphone under wifi.

Anyone had this or know how to get it working? Cheers
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Offline AlanD

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Re: Iphone 4 Personal Hotspot
« Reply #1 on: 21 July 2011, 09:48 »
Im pretty certain that to use the internet tethering (as I think its called) on O2 you need to pay an additional fee depending on how much data you want to tether across. Not sure if thats the case with 3.

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Re: Iphone 4 Personal Hotspot
« Reply #2 on: 21 July 2011, 09:57 »
Im pretty certain that to use the internet tethering (as I think its called) on O2 you need to pay an additional fee depending on how much data you want to tether across. Not sure if thats the case with 3.
No tethering is included. I have always used it via usb on my vaio and now my mac. Used it once over blurtooth too. Wifi is just more convenient for work.
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Re: Iphone 4 Personal Hotspot
« Reply #3 on: 21 July 2011, 10:21 »
Use a Windows laptop instead :D

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Re: Iphone 4 Personal Hotspot
« Reply #4 on: 21 July 2011, 10:47 »
Use a Windows laptop instead :D

Haha. You would have thought though an apple phone would work perfectly fine with an apple laptop.
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Re: Iphone 4 Personal Hotspot
« Reply #5 on: 21 July 2011, 13:00 »
Use a Windows laptop and Android phone instead :D

Haha. You would have thought though an apple phone would work perfectly fine with an apple laptop.

full heartedly agree there Alan :afro:  :grin:
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Re: Iphone 4 Personal Hotspot
« Reply #6 on: 21 July 2011, 16:16 »
Use a Windows laptop instead :D

Haha. You would have thought though an apple phone would work perfectly fine with an apple laptop.

It should & most likely does :)

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Re: Iphone 4 Personal Hotspot
« Reply #7 on: 21 July 2011, 16:19 »
Use a Windows laptop instead :D

Haha. You would have thought though an apple phone would work perfectly fine with an apple laptop.

It should & most likely does :)

Must be me then  :angry:
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Re: Iphone 4 Personal Hotspot
« Reply #8 on: 21 July 2011, 16:34 »
you can use this via the cable also for better connection speed. mine works fine, but i have found it best connects when you have wifi and bluetooth switched off on your phone, then switch on the personal hotspot. it should hopefully then prompt you to turn on your bluetooth and wifi instead of only USB.