MyWi Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me share my iPhone data to my iPad

by Erica Sadun (Feb 9th, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I find myself in an interesting position. I am going to be traveling for several weeks within the US. I have my iPhone on a grandfathered unlimited data plan and a wifi iPad 2. I would like to be able to use my iPad while away not only for FaceTime but also general use and even ...

AT&T aggressively moving against unauthorized tethering

by Richard Gaywood (Mar 18th, 2011)

AT&T is ruining a lot of people's days with a customer mailshot explaining that its "records show that you use [tethering] but are not subscribed to our tethering plan." iOS, of course, will disable the built-in tethering facility if you do not have an appropriate carrier plan. There are a ...

AP photographer uses MyWi to cover Bahrain protests

by Dana Franklin (Feb 17th, 2011)

James Lawler Duggan, a photojournalist from Washington, D.C., used his jailbroken iPhone 3GS and MyWi 4.0 tethering software to transmit photos from Bahrain (warning: photos are graphic in nature). This week, police locked down the capital of this small Persian Gulf kingdom as demonstrators prepared ...

MyWi OnDemand offers major connectivity upgrades for iPhone-as-hotspot (jailbreak)

by Erica Sadun (Feb 3rd, 2011)

For the last few years, MyWi has basically owned the iPhone-as-hotspot jailbreak market. With the app and a jailbroken iPhone or iPad, you could share your 3G or EDGE connection with other devices with just a few simple taps. Multiple laptops or other mobile devices could connect to the Wi-Fi ...

Talking with MyWi's Mario Ciabarra about VZW's hotspot announcement

by Erica Sadun (Jan 11th, 2011)

Verizon was widely lauded this morning when it announced that its new CDMA iPhone would provide built-in hotspot support. Hotspots allow users to connect to a phone and share that phone's data service to connect to the Internet. This feature, which is also known as "tethering" provides a way to ...

Verizon iPhone: Hardware is still the iPhone 4

by Michael Rose (Jan 11th, 2011)

Sure, it would have been more exciting if Verizon launched its version of the iPhone with an incremented version number and splashy new hardware capabilites -- LTE! Super-Retina display! Downward-facing camera! -- but as expected, the new beastie is essentially the same as the existing iPhone 4 ...

My3G bypasses 3G restrictions

by Erica Sadun (Aug 2nd, 2010)

This morning, I learned several things about using FaceTime in public. First, I realized that holding an iPhone a foot or two away from your face and talking tends to make you speak very loudly. This, in turns, tends to annoy other patrons in the restaurant. And this, in turn, tends to attract the ...

Ask TUAW: Shopping for new Macs, iPhone home screens, home folder on external disk, and more

by Mat Lu (Feb 26th, 2010)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we have questions about whether to buy a 27" iMac or a MacBook Pro, increasing the number of iPhone home screens, moving your home folder to an external disk, and more. As always, your suggestions and questions are ...

iPhone hacksugar: Creating a MyWi WiFi hotspot with your jailbroken phone

by Erica Sadun (Feb 10th, 2010)

Here's the thing. You know, and I know, that AT&T has not yet enabled tethering in the US for the iPhone, while carriers all across the globe have already given their iPhone customers the ability to use their phones as wireless modems for their laptops. You and I also know that strictly speaking ...