Using your iPhone as a USB modem.
This week my broadband has been really acting up. Apparently these problems are caused by Virgin Media rolling out their 50 Mb service. As a result I ended up without internet connection. This is a nightmare for internet marketeers as you can imagine. I had no option but to jailbreak my iPhone and use it as a modem for a day. My contract gives me free unlimited data and with download speeds reaching 2Mb/s this was indeed an excellent alternative. This is what I did:
1) I went to QuickPwn and downloaded their tool. After going through all the instructions it literally took me a few minutes to Jailbreak my iPhone. Please note that Jailbreaking an iPhone can void your warranty, break your iPhone, start a world war 3 and destroy the world so do it at your own risk.
2) I then went and downloaded an iModem application. You can buy it if you want but the free version I used simply made some image look less sharp. This only made the page load quicker so I did not complain.
3) I connected my iPhone to my PC using a USB cable and installed the iModem application. This wee application quickly recognized the phone and all I had to do was to click on “Activate phone/install daemon”.
4) I already had a tor button installed my FireFox but you can find it here. When your button is all setup right click on red “Tor Disabled” button at the bottom of your browser, go to “Preferences” and click on “Use custom proxy settings” and change the default ports (You should have 3 of them already filled in) from 8118 and 9050 to 8080.
5) Left click on your Tor button once again and you have yourself free USB unlimited internet. This is excellent for a laptop!
I take no responsibility for any damage caused as a result of you following these instructions and bla bla bla all the usual please don’t sue me just in case something goes terribly worng stuff.
March 4th, 2009 at 1:36 am
Hahahahahah! I love the way you described the inherent dangers in jailbreaking the iPhone, Ilia! Nobody wants to be responsible for starting World War III, but an emergency is an emergency, and I for one won’t hesitate to do the same (if I had an iPhone) if my broadband went down. Personally I got a 3G modem to tide me over during those downtimes.
March 5th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
lol I was emphasising how “evil” Jailbreaking is portrayed to be which only allows you to run 3rd party software on the phone YOU purchased.
March 28th, 2009 at 4:59 am
You guys are funny! Why do manufacturers have to be so pedantic? Surely the more versatile their handsets, the more sales they’ll be getting?