I have seen articles on how to tether the iphone to a laptop with the $6.00 T-Zones plan and even got it to work for me. I would like to upgrade to the $20 (Total Internet) plan for better speed but am wondering how to do the tethering in that plan.

I used Tiny Proxy under the T-Mobile $6 plan, with the below configuration file. The laptop had both HTTP Proxy and HTTPS Proxy with server [my_iphone_ip_address]:8080

What would I use for the Upstream Server if I switch to the T-Mobile $20 plan? Will 216.155.165.50:8080 still work or do I need something else? Has someone here tethered with the $20 plan?

Thanks in advance.



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## tinyproxy.conf -- optimized for iPhone
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# run as (less privs the better)
User nobody
Group nogroup

#run on
Port 8080
Timeout 600

# log only errors
Logfile "/var/log/tinyproxy.log"
LogLevel Critical


PidFile "/var/run/tinyproxy.pid"
Upstream 216.155.165.50:8080

# set us to 2 connections max
MaxClients 2
MinSpareServers 1
MaxSpareServers 2
StartServers 1
MaxRequestsPerChild 0

# allow/deny list, keeps this pretty strict (ie. your laptop ip only)
Allow 127.0.0.1
Allow 192.168.1.0/16
Allow 10.0.0.0/8

# allow connecting on nonstandard web ports
ConnectPort 443
ConnectPort 563

# let everyone know you are on your iPhone
ViaProxyName "app-on-a-cell-phone"

just posted a tutorial...hope it helps

http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/show...167#post255167

I got it to work on both Blackberry Unlimited and Total Internet plans. The key is I needed to use the default config file for TinyProxy and get rid of the one I had for the $6 plan. I do find a tethered connection is about 1/3 slower than just using the phone and am curious why and if I can do anything to improve it.

Any ideas about improving the speed while tethering or why it is slower when tethered than when phone is used alone. I use iphonenetworktest.com for the speed test.

bumping it up the list...