Tethering Your iPhone To Your Laptop – Easier Than You Think
As I type this, I am going 70 MPH down I-85 in South Carolina… mind you, I am a passenger, but still it is quite a rush. How is this possible you might ask? Well, without too much “technobabble”, it is called “tethering” and it’s simpler than you might think!
Before you start, make sure you back up everything on your iPhone in iTunes, also, while the chances of this messing up anything permanently are pretty low, remember, I’m not responsible if you mess up your phone. READ EVERYTHING TWICE!
1. Head over to the Dev-Team Blog and download the latest version of PwnageTool, I downloaded 2.2.5 for my Mac. Make sure you are updated to iPhone version 2.2.1 via iTunes before you try to jailbreak. Once you have it downloaded, fire it up and choose which iPhone version you have 2G or 3G (or iPod Touch if you want to jailbreak it) and follow the steps, it is pretty straight forward. You will be asked to power your iPhone off and hold certain buttons, once that is finished, you are ready to restore in iTunes.
2. iTunes should recognize your iPhone in recovery mode and offer to let you restore the firmware. What you need to do on a Mac is hold down the ALT/Option key then when you click the restore firmware button, you’ll get to select the file that was created by PwnageTool, it should be on your desktop. Mine was called: iPhone1,2_2.2.1_5H11_Custom_Restore.ipsw, yours may be different.
3. iTunes will then offer to restore your iPhone with the back up you made earlier and copy all your apps, songs, and movies back onto your iPhone. Go take a little break, this sometimes takes a while.
4. Once your phone is done syncing, look through your apps on your iPhone and you will see Cydia. Open it. Click Developer (no filtering), and then search for PDANet, click on it and the then click install on the top right. Once installed, move back over to your computer, click on wireless network settings and then create network. Name it whatever you want. I named mine iPhone.
5. Go back you your iPhone go into settings and join the network you created on your laptop and then open PDANet and you should be online at blazing 3G speeds! 
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Just a friendly reminder: Tethering is against AT&T terms of service, but I’ve never had any problems. Stick to internet browsing, data is data… still… no torrents or hulu just to be safe
