Tethering for the holiday traveler

The weird thing about all the folks on this thread acting haughty about their free tethering solutions is they don't tell you how to do them. My iPhone is jailbroken with Blackra1n (easy enough) and I have PDANet working on it (trial almost expired). However, I've no idea about this "help.benm.at" thing that's been mentioned; I search for "Unlock" and "geohot" in Cydia and find nothing. I visited www.benm.at website but it also has no help.
So how about people not put down paid solutions (that ARE easy to implement, by the way; PDANet is very easy to use) unless they're willing to provide real alternatives, not vaporware?

Actually several flash based upgrades are coming to the iphone. Until flash can be trimmed to not use so much memory Apple won't approve it for Safari Mobile, but there is an app coming out that is like a Flash lite. So monitoring isn't such a big deal.

I've downloaded iphone modem and opted to pay for it to save my sister in college some money so she can do some homework from home and cruise Facebook. Stuff she pretty much does on her iPhone now.

I'm just going to have to tell her she cant download sex and the city torrents.

The thing I really like about the iphone modem is more than one laptop can hook up to 1 iPhone. It's not super fast, but honestly when looking up webcomics on two different sites to check the speed it was quick enough that I could live without comcasts shitty monopoly of an internet.

Although I agree with all the comments about native iPhone tethering being superior, I read that one of the "bonuses" of the native tethering is AT&T knowing exactly how much data you use on a tether and when you do it, however with a jailbroken app like PDAnet or iPhoneModem, all the data transferred appears as regular, non-tethered data. For this reason I have never used the native tether since I have had it activated for fear of AT&T charging and or terminating my account, and unfortunately as an iPhone developer it is against my developer agreement to jailbreak.

Any thoughts?

And this is exactly why the AT&T network is overloaded because people are impatient. AT&T has to have their network just right for tethering to be turned on but "people" are jailbreaking their iphones and using tethering which delays AT&T even more. Then they want to bitch about how AT&T sucks. How about you quit hacking your phones to steal network data!

Native tethering is wayyy better than any 3rd party tethering app

When I try and use the steps outlined above I get a message that says contact AT&T about thethering on this account.

Yeah, because AT&T's stellar data network is such a joy to use on the iPhone, I'd wanna use it for data on my Mac.

Excellent idea.

Also, I agree AT&T... it is insane that we can't use our iPhones to tether. When I talk to your informed customer service people, they swear that the iPhone does not have the capability. What a joke!

and of course the other point, why do it for free when you can pay somebody $9.99 instead?

Come on, if you're going to explain how to jailbreak (for free), why would you then point them to the non-free approach to tethering (which is also easily done -- and free...)?

I had to use the Mifi from Rock on O2. It is fantastic. The UI is great, and the through-put is phenomenal.