Tethered iPhones
March 19, 2009 by Admin
Will They Be Too Much To Handle?
Internet tethering is the process of connecting your cell phone to your computer, and using the phone as a modem. Once your phone is tethered to your computer, you then utilize the wireless 3G network to browse the internet at your leisure. This sounds like a fantastic idea, however it presents a couple of issues.
First off, the iPhone is not meant to tether. There are no straight-forward ways to allow it to tether, though someone managed to find them. Steve Troughton-Smith tweeted about how he managed to hack the tethering features, but doesn’t quite know how he did it.
Apple has brought up the idea of tethering made into a feature in the new iPhone 3.0, however it brings some memories to mind, on whether AT&T’s 3G network could even handle iPhones being used in this way.
At the South By Southwest Festival (SXSW), the iPhones overwhelmed AT&T’s 3G network from all of the browsing. Can you imagine what a bunch of computers using all of that data will do to their network? iPhone’s popularity is great news, especially with the use of all of their media plans, but is it becoming too much for their network to handle?
It looks like both AT&T and Apple are going to have to assess the capabilities of what they’re offering to people, before their whole network fails from overload. If that happened, there would be a lot more unhappy cell phone users running around.
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