Not long ago the application Netshare was released in the App Store. Not very long after, the same application got removed from the app store due to legal issues with AT&T. Another company that was awaiting approvment of their internet sharing app, PdaNet, is June Fabric. June Fabric’s official statement was:
Our latest response from Apple is that the PdaNet application will be given new “consideration”. But that was more than a week ago and it still has an “In Review” status. There is not much we can do at this point but just to wait.
It appears that June Fabric got tired of waiting cause today i fired up Cydia and found their PdaNet application.
Best of all the application seems to be free!
To get this working is actually rather simple.
A) Create a ad-hoc network with your iPhone and pc
1) Let’s start with your PC config:
1. Click the Start Button and select Control Panel.
2. Select Network and Internet. (If Control Panel is in Classic View, skip this step)
3. Open Network and Sharing Center.
4. Select Set up a connection or network (in the left pane).
5. In the resulting window, select Set up a wireless ad hoc (computer-to-computer) network.
6. Click Next and again on the following page.
7. In the Network name textbox, input iPhone as the name of the network.
8. Select a security type from the dropdown. (If you select WEP, you will need to enter a security key in the unghosted textbox)
9. If you want to use this network more than once, check the Save this network checkbox, if you only need it for a one time fix, leave the checkbox unchecked.
10. Click Next.
11. Click Close.
———–
Let’s now configure the iPhone.
1. Press the main Application button.
2. Select Settings, then select Wi-Fi from the menu, let your iPhone scan for a network and the network iPhone will pop-up.
3. Connect to the network iPhone.
At this point, the hardware for both the PC and iPhone are configured for the ad-hoc connection. Once the settings are saved, your PC and iPhone should establish a wireless connection automatically.
Now it’s time to start the application pdanet.
Enable the app via the wi-fi router button on the bottom.
Wait some seconds and you should immediately see that your desktop computer is connected and you are ready to start surfing or using your EDGE or 3G or GPRS iPhone connection.
Enjoy 
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\\ tags: iPhone, netshare, pdanet, share internet connection, tether
Nice App
is it free?
Cool, although I’ll probably still use 3proxy so I can tunnel just the apps I need and prevent any other apps from wasting bandwidth.
NICE!!! At this moment I´m conected using it.
It’s free and works like a charm! Thank you, June Fabric! Your name sucks but your app rocks!
Outstanding CLEAR directions thank you so much works GREAT!!!
Looks like it works for Win PC but no luck with a Mac, the app keep telling to go in settings and join the ad hoc connection although it is already.
PdaNet works like a router, so make sure you did not assign static IP on your Mac and allows DHCP to do its magic. It has worked for me on my Leopard.
This app is way better than the other ones. I can finally use sftp, ftp, skype, ichat and ANY program! But I’m wondering, since it’s used as a router rather than tunneling through a proxy — will it be more obvious to the cell provider that tethering is taking place?
Thanks I’ll try it. Do I need insomnia or is it built in? I’m assuming I need it since this was built for the App Store? Also does the app need to remain in the foreground or can I minimize it?
it is built in and you can close it back to home and open anything and youll still stay connected.
I wish if that works over cable too
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Can every application on my pc go online? or i am limited to firefox?
EVERYTHING ON YOUR COMPUTER CAN GO ONLINE. IT WORKS FINE WITH UTORRENT, EXCEPT MY ATT 3G SPEED IS LIKE TOPING AT 90-130KB/S DOWNLOAD. I THINK TOO MUCH BANDWIDTH AND ATT MIGHT NOTICE TETHERING…
did anyone made it work with a Mac? If yes can you post the setups please? thx
hey im having a hard time trying to do this with my pc. can anyone give me directions for a newbie? please
this appp rock is the best i have try but im
wondering they already ask this but no anwerd because
is using like a router is more obious for att to see
that we are doing this
Ok, but what is it good for?
Whats the main purpose of this app and what will it let us do?
Amir, this app is for tethering your iPhone to your laptop so you can use the iPhone’s internet. And to everyone else…..This app is the BEST!!! You can use ANY program with this. When I was using 3proxy and any proxy dependant apps, some websites wouldn’t “act right”, but with this program, you can use Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, even iTunes works cuz you never set up a proxy, you just treat it like it’s a cable modem and just get online! I even used “LogMeIn” to remote to my desktop PC at home and it worked! When I tried that with the proxy dependant apps, I always got some kind of DNS error. I can’t say it enough, this app is the SHIZNIT!!!! I can’t believe it’s FREE!!!
actualy it’s technical not tearhering
Amir - it will let your laptop connect to the internet via 3G/GPRS when you dont have a wifi hotspot available
i’m currently on this website using PDANET….
It could come in handy one day…
Does anyone know how to configure it on a Macbook [with a proxy.]
I can do DNS lookups from the laptop. But my phone provider uses a Proxy.
I’m with Vodafone Australia. who has a similar set-up to the 5.99 t-zones plan in America. [think proxy set up]
The phone and lappy connect just fine. I got the internet working on the iphone by putting the proxy into the preferences.plist but the lappy wont have any of it.
Lappy resolves google.com to its IP but nothing else passes through.
*I sent this to Fabric support:
I can set up and connect correctly between iphone and macbook.
I can \”ping google.com\” from the laptop and it resolves googles IP but looses 100% of packets. [but then again so does the iphone anyway]
The browser on the laptop times out, while the iphone works fine.
Vodafone Aust uses a proxy for edge connections.
Should I put the same EDGE proxy in my laptops preferences also?
Should there be and exclusions in the laptops proxy exclusions?
Clearer instructions for set up on a Mac would be great.
Thanks.
*And only got this in reply:
I am not sure about the “Proxy” requirement for your carrier. I guess in order for PdaNet to work your phone need to have direct Internet connection like ours in the US. I am also not sure if it will help to set the proxy on the computer end.
Thanks,
June Fabrics PDA Software Support
Not much help…..
Anyone on T-Zones 5.99 plan got this working? [with the proxy]
Any ideas would be great.
I am on the t-zones t-mobile USA plan, with mackbook pro 10.5.5. I cannot get pdanet to work with firefox or safari either. Although my apple Mail application works fine. Weird. I’ve been searching for hours and can’t find an answer or similar problems. yours is the first mention of it.
Hope we figure it out!
Can’t get it to work with a xp laptop. It will not go off the screen “wifi ready, please connect to network and relaunch PDANet”
Obviously I’m already connected. 3proxy will work(yes I turned it off before trying this program). SSH works great. I guess I have to keep using those till the bugs are worked out.
Had the same issue. Be sure that your XP machine is using dhcp to connect and not static.
and done.
everyone keeps avoiding the question! How easly can AT&T detect this app?
I’m not having much luck. Once I try to connect to the iphone wireless network XP just sits and try to acqure an IP address but never gets an IP address outside of 169.254.221.45 which of course is no good.
Brilliant! I was having real problems tethering my Linux eeePC to my iPhone. This worked straight away. Thanks so much!
Works great … and simple (maybe just a bit too simple
). Got it working fairly easily on my XPSP3 — bu NOT on Vista 64bit. Difficult to troubleshoot with such limited status information. Wish we had a page 2 status screen with lots more details.
it is missing from my cydia? is it gone?
Where do you download this PDANET app ?
Could not find it on http://www.cydia.com
Use the Cydia application on your jailbroken phone. Listed under changes.
do you have to have a jailbroken iphone???
I recently upgraded from v 1.30 to v 1.31. Oldest version was working fine, now I can’t get my computer to appear connected in pdanet and have a valid IP address. Anyone having the same problem??
I am having the same problem, Windows vista is pissing me off
. It works fine with my xp laptop..just not vista
Hello,
Please help….I have a 2g iphone but when I looked in cydia to download pdanet the app. is not in there. Does anyone know where I can get the app.
i use 2g v.1.1.4 , can’t find that app. at cydia too~~
Only for 2.x
EPiC paSS I used for 2weeks strait I download about3-4gigs in 3 days I saw how much usage I had used and it said 22gigs haha and still no word from AT&T not an email nor 2 phone bills using it.
Only 2 weeks? Hahaha. I’ve yet to see a company do anything in 2 weeks!!!. Maybe 2 ”months” IF you’re lucky. I’m not saying it will/or will not happen, but trust me, 2 weeks is ”””’way””’ to short a time to make any judgment calls.
Can you make phone calls while tethering,
does anyone notice that pdanet for iphone does not work well when serfing google.com domains???? It almost feels like the iphone has a built in proxy when it comes to google.com domains and gets confused.
I cannot pull up google.com while tethering, but i have NO problem getting to other sites.
Hell yeah!!!
For mac users…
Mac:
1. go and click to where you find wireless networks
2. Click Create Network
3. A window pops up and it says “Create a Computer-to-Computer network
4. Make a name up or use the default it has.
5. Keep Channel on Automatic
*6. If you want create a password to connect. ( I didnt)
7. Press ok
8. go to wireless networks on your iPhone.
9. Find the name you set the C-2-C to.
10. Run PDA NET and wait for connection.
11. DONE!!!
Someone has asked this three times and got no answers but it is an important question so i am asking again -
How easily can AT&T detect that tethering is taking place and what could be the consequences ?
I cannot manage to get PDANet to work. It keep saying: “PdaNet WiFi Router need to be initialised first. Please restart your iPhone.” Is this because it does not work with Iphone 2G? (I run version 2.0.1 on the first generation of iPhone)
All help welcome!
Nicolas
Has anyone gotten their mac to be able to VPN to a remote server over pdanet?
What sort of restrictions does pdanet have? I know that I can do skype calls now! Which is amazing, but i still cant use hamachi for mac or vpn. Funny enough, i can use hamachi in my VM of vista running in Fusion, but I dont know how to share my VM’s network with my host machine.
Basically: i am willing to jump over hurdles i just need a direction to start jumping.
Specifically: i want to be able to mount my home computer’s RAID over my iPhone. And i want to be able to remote desktop to it.
I have a jailbroken phone, with a macbook air and home is running windows server 2008 or Vista.
I know the vpn works, because it connects when the air is on wifi, but not when i use the iphone as modem. Ive tried with iphoneModem, and PdaNet.
Please Help!!
Hamachi support would be awesome.
Below are the details of how Hamachi Works so may be if someone takes a look they can find a work around.
https://logmeinsupport.com/kblive/crm/selfservice/displaywh.jsp?DocId=1994
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I was able to get it to work when I set up a adhoc connection with security type “no authentication”. But it stopped working when I switched the security type to “WPA2-personal”. I am certain that I typed in the password correctly. Any suggestions?
Thank you
Do you have to jail break your phone?
You need to jailbreak the phone in order to install pdanet, it’s not on itunes anymore.
Is there any way to tether a laptop with an iphone without creation a wifi ad hoc network, for example using a usb cable? My network policies prevent the creation of ad hoc networks. Thanks!
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For those interested the latest version now allows Hamachi to work so it is now my favorite Iphone app of all time!!
you know have to pay $30 for the app
Exactly Zariaman,
After 15 day using, you need to pay to access to every website who doesn’t start by “http://”,
So you can’t go to fdp://, https://, etc…
Not very sweat for an app who come from developers and not on the appstore.
If i have jailbreaked iphone, is other way how to get application than dowloading by cydia or instaler in iphone? If you can first download unofficial appl. into computer a than into iphone?