Comments on: How-To: Tether Your BlackBerry to Your Mac

By: WineOtaku

WineOtaku — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:40:49 +0000

Although the information is pretty old, it worked perfectly for me. I am in Hong Kong, and I have a Bold 2 with Peoples (aka China Mobile HK). APN is peoples.net, and user/pwd is your phone number/the pwd you set up on Peoples/Blackberry web site account. Just thought I’d mention it so that if other BB users in HK end up on this page. Thanks!

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:07:18 +0000

Does anyone know if this still works with AT&T’s new tethering plans?

By: bbmodem

bbmodem — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 02:57:59 +0000

Hey All,

This was working fine until I suddenly needed to find the “dialer icon” and had no idea what the author was talking about. Maybe this obvious to some of you, but for the rest, here’s the missing step:

When you open your mac’s network connections, and have your tethered BB selected in the left panel, be sure to check the check box that says “Show modem status.”

Once you check that box the dialer icon will appear in your top menu bar–it’s a picture of a phone. From there you can complete the “connect to the internet” steps from above.

Article was very clear until that section–thanks very much for the earlier parts!

By: ~_-4$TaT!n3-_~

~_-4$TaT!n3-_~ — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:49:23 +0000

thank you very much!
works perfectly with BB Torch 9800 and mac OS X (10.6.4)

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By: Boise Marketing

Boise Marketing — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:50:15 +0000

I have used Tetherberry (now Tether.com) to no avail. After hours and hours of trying different settings, I was able to get occasional, super-slow connection speeds on a road trip last September.

This time around, in preparation for another trip, I tried it out again using their updated software. Problem is, it does not work if your Blackberry Desktop Manager is installed. I use that regularly, so that was a deal killer.

This setup did work for me, although I did pay for authorized Blackberry tethering service for the month. I have ATT, and they only support their tethering with Windows, and I have Mac OS X (Snow Leopard). So I re-researched tethering via Bluetooth without any software add-ons and found this article (again).

This time I was able to get it to work pretty easily. I don't know if having the authorized ATT tethering plan added this month made it work or not. I'll cancel the service next month and try it to find out.

By: Shreyans Bhansali

Shreyans Bhansali — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:29:25 +0000

This is amazing and worked perfectly without any issues.
I just moved into a new apartment and I’ve had Internet thanks to this.
Thank you Jenny!

By: paul

paul — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:51:30 +0000

Reply
thebeelzebubtrigger–are you connecting 3g/cellular or dial-up? Can you receive emails while using the tethering? Are you using vz access manager?
Thanks for your help.

By: nonna

nonna — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:15:18 +0000

2 questions:
How would AT&T find out if you are tethering?
Also, did anyone try the $49 softwware @tether.com you download on your BB and laptop?

By: thebeelzebubtrigger

thebeelzebubtrigger — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:53:53 +0000

There’s a much simpler way to do this, at least it works for me on Verizon with a curve 8530 and Snow Leopard (10.6.2). It will cost you $30 “tethering charge” though (even though data is data, &%*#* those bandits!).

Hook up your blackberry via USB, the go to System Preferences -> Network. It will tell you a new network device has been detected. Configure it by setting (on Verizon, other carriers will be different) telephone number to “#777″, account name to “vzw3g”, and password to “vzw”. Don’t use the quotes — but you knew that, right? :)

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By: Jon Q

Jon Q — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:04:38 +0000

I have been tethering my BB for at least a year now and it works pretty well, but has anyone else had the problem of (If you drop your connection, you cannot disconnect the bluetooth from the disconnect menu and if you do get it to disconnect, you cannot connect again because of a modem error?)
I get this allot because I tether at work almost the whole day, when this happens, I have to re boot my MacBook Pro and do a QuickPull on the BB and then it works great again for hours. It’s like it gets disconnected but the Mac thinks it still is and will not let me disconnect.

By: Yam

Yam — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:34:27 +0000

just figured it out… download this http://www.setera.org/projects/blackberry-bold-pppd-replacement/

its great!!

By: Yam

Yam — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:20:39 +0000

I got the same problem, but I fixed the problem I had with Research in Motion not showing up. You just download the scripts and put the folder in hardrive/library/modem scripts. However, even once this problem was resolved, it still says that there was a ppp error when I try to connect to the internet. Everything else works! what is the problem?

By: jo's mama

jo's mama — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:19:33 +0000

at&t says there is a $30 tethering charge per month… I was able to use my bb 9700 as a modem for my mbp last night (using the above directions) and am wondering, since I was able to connect, will at&t automatically charge me the $30/month? or is it possible that I can use my bb as a modem for my mbp and not pay that monthly service charge? I’ve read some comments here and elsewhere how people connect for “free”… does anyone know the answer to this? thank you very much! :)

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Rants, Inc. » Blog Archive » BlackBerry FTW? — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:43:45 +0000

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