Tips to Turn iPhone into Wireless Router

Published by dipti, on February 3rd, 2012, in the categories: Tips and tricks


iPhone has revolutionized mobile world by providing end number of applications and features. One of such feature is converting iPhone into wireless router.




iPhone should provide constant internet connection in order to enjoy most of its features. Most of the iPhones have small screen that makes them difficult to use for some serious kind of web surfing, however you may find it sufficient enough to check your mails but using the iPhone for any larger purpose is definitely a serious kind of exercise that most of us would not prefer to do.

There is another way you can use the iPhone internet feature. You can use fast 3G connection of iPhone on your laptop by turning the device into a wireless router. Laptop is not the only option you can go for, you can also do the same thing on computer system, however some more steps need to be followed in order to fully use 3G internet connections. First make sure that your iPhone is jailbroken and if not then you have to make your iPhone jailbreak. There are different ways to jailbreak the iPhone. Nowadays most of the iPhones are coming with tethered jailbreak. Once you are done with this application, next thing to get is MyWi. You can get this through Cydia Store. Once you have jailbroken your iPhone, launch Cydia on the phone and search for “MyWi”. If you want you can purchase it directly or can use trial version. Purchasing MyWi will definitely cost you so if you are just checking out the wireless router feature of iPhone, you can download and install trial version of MyWi and if you want to use your iPhone as wireless router for life long then only option left is to purchase MyWi online.

Once you have installed MyWi, launch it by tapping on the icon named “On” which is present next to “Wi-Fi Tethering” in order to enable iPhone Wi-Fi feature. Now, you can connect laptop, PC and iPad to your newly configured iPhone Wi-Fi Router. Connecting laptop with iPhone will require same basic steps needed while connecting laptop with wireless network, so no need to worry regarding connection. Find iPhone Wi-Fi hotspot SSID and connect it.

While using this wireless router feature of iPhone, don’t forget that you are using your iPhone’s data plan. So if you are using unlimited plan on your iPhone then no need to worry. MyWi application will eat up iPhone’s battery at fast rate so you can use MyWi feature of iPhone by connecting it via USB and keep charging iPhone whenever required.

Around the world any iPhone user may stuck in a situation where there is no Wi-Fi or internet connection available and that is the time when you can use this special feature of iPhone to get connected to the world.
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