NetShare Tutorial: iPhone 3G/Edge tethering for Macs only!!!
NetShare Tutorial: iPhone 3G/Edge tethering for Macs only!!!
NetShare is an application for the iPhone which was publishe and withdrawn the same day from App store! Precisely, it was available to market, hardly for 18 minutes!
NetShare allows internet access from your Mac or Pc, using (via SOCKS5 proxy) the internet connection of your iPhone (3G or EDGE). With this way a user with unlimited data plan could have free of charge internet for his Pc/laptop!
Certain useful data: AT&T does not support tethering for iPhone.
Certain (unanswered at the moment) questions: How was the application found from in App store? Didn't Apple check it?
Nullriver’s response:
We’re not quite sure why Apple took down the application yet, we’ve received no communication from Apple thus far. NetShare did not violate any of the Developer or AppStore agreements. We’re hoping we’ll get some feedback from Apple tomorrow. Sorry to all the folks that couldn’t get it in time. We’ll do our best to try to get the application back onto the AppStore if at all possible. At the very least, I would hope Apple will allow it in countries where the provider does permit tethering.
For the small interval in which was available, NetShare cost $9.99.
If a user could have bought it or downloaded it from somewhere else,he can be informed for that precisely how to use from the following analytic Tutorial:
UPDATE: NetShare is once again available: NetShare - App Store
Step 1: Set up your a network using Airport call it whatever you like, I called mine iPhone Tether. You can protect yours if you wish I was in a rush so I didn’t.
Step 2: Open up System Prefs, go to Network select Airport (on the left side). I set up a location also called iPhone Tether you don’t have to. Don’t worry if you don’t have the same settings as me just make sure you have created the network from your mac. Select Advanced.
Step 3: Under TCP/IP select using DHCP with manual address then enter any IP for your Mac. I used the one suggested by NetShare.
Step 4: Select Proxies and tick SOCKS Proxy. In the SOCKS proxy server enter a similar IP address as your Mac’s one this will be your iPhone’s IP.
Step 5: Click OK and then click Apply in System Prefs.
Step 6: Under Settings on your iPhone select Wi-Fi and connect to the network you just created. Tap the little blue arrow next to the Network name.
Step 7: Go to Static. Enter the same IP address for your iPhone that you put in the SOCKS Proxy.
Step 8: Open NetShare, open your browser on your Mac and enjoy!
P.S When your iPhone goes to sleep or you exit the NetShare application it will quit and your Mac will have no internet access via your iPhone.
[Via Macrumors]