tethering surprisingly fast

wonderings · Jul 14th, 2009, 02:41 PM

For some reason I thought tethering with the iPhone would give me a slow but usable internet connection. I am sitting out front of a motorcycle shop waiting for a new front tire to be installed. Connected for the first time through my iPhone and the speeds are great. I have not tried any intensive flash sites, but on some motorcycle forums with heavy pictures, they load way faster then I would have thought. This is a fantastic feature that is easy to set up, I thought I would never use it, but now I see the possibility of usability of it and am very impressed. "It just works" is exactly right, another win for apple at making tethering this easy.

dona83 · Jul 14th, 2009, 02:53 PM

All I can say is that it streams 700kbps Flash video on a train going 85km/h just fine.

HowEver · Jul 14th, 2009, 02:55 PM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by dona83
	All I can say is that it streams 700kbps Flash video on a train going 85km/h just fine.

That reminds me of high school math for some reason....

Jul 14th, 2009, 03:13 PM

You mean like these questions HowEver?

"If a video's bitrate is set to ___ and there's an upload going in the opposite direction with a speed of ___ and you're trying to stream the video, which direction does the flash player load from?"

pwstoneman · Jul 14th, 2009, 03:36 PM

I too was pleasantly surprised at how fast it is. Sitting at a starbucks tethered last week I even had someone come up and ask if I was tethered and how fast it was. I was happy to demonstrate both my mac and how fast the connection was.

What really blew me away was just this weekend past when I was able to tether at my cottage (near Dorset). Cell reception is spotty at best by the lake and this was a reliable speedy connection. Truly impressed.

dona83 · Jul 14th, 2009, 04:27 PM

If an electric train goes 100km/h west and the wind blows 50km/h east, which way does the smoke blow?

Flipstar · Jul 14th, 2009, 05:11 PM

Now.. any difference in bluetooth tethering and USB tethering?

rondini · Jul 14th, 2009, 07:05 PM

Okay a simple request i think.
how about a step by step of the process to use tethering with a Macbook and an iPhone?

Flipstar · Jul 14th, 2009, 07:27 PM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by rondini
	Okay a simple request i think. how about a step by step of the process to use tethering with a Macbook and an iPhone?

There is step by step information in the tethering menu...

rondini · Jul 14th, 2009, 07:39 PM

cool, and this menu...?? is where again