Comments on: Need WiFi for Skype on iPhone? Share It From a Mac in < 5 Minutes

By: Ashish

Ashish — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:24:20 +0000

I tried the same thing for android. But somehow I am not able to access internet over the shared connection… It connects to the wifi but just not able to access the net… The same problem exists with my brother’s jailbroken iphone.. Any idea why would that be happening?

By: Rui Castro

Rui Castro — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:53:02 +0000

I can’t get this to work with my Nokia 5800, It just doesn’t show up on my wifi list. Anyone have any help with the Nokia 5800?

By: turn.self.off

turn.self.off — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:14:26 +0000

i guess they (like the cable tv companies) fear the idea of becoming just another isp.

this with the end result of taking all the infrastructure costs, while the service providing companies like google take all the credit.

thing is that the isps and similar have gotten themselves is a bit of a jam.

while they sell flat rate to the end user, they themselves have pay by traffic og tit for tat agreements with each other for borderline traffic.

and for most end user isp’s the traffic is one way, as the user consumes vast amounts of inbound traffic via web, streams and similar. this makes tit for tat agreements hard to uphold, resulting in pay for use at one end of the network, and flat rate at the other.

this leaves the isp with two options:

1. drop flat rate at the user end (watch the blog posts explode in rants)

2. introduce all kinds of limits…

By: gorkon

gorkon — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:17:17 +0000

You know what I can’t figure out is why the carriers themselves won’t let you use VoIP directly on your device. I mean you can ALWAYS do this to use Skype on any phone that has it and Wifi. Their networks are GOING to carry Skype and other VoIP client packets anyway. They should embrace it as it could actually GENERATE sales of their more expensive data plans.

By: AndyT

AndyT — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:08:38 +0000

Now if we could just get free WiFi service everywhere then we can finally drop those greedy mobile phone companies once and for all.

By: prab

prab — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:42:07 +0000

And here it is for Windows…

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/setup/adhoc.mspx#1

By: tho

tho — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:38:05 +0000

BTW, if your phone is jailbroken you can use voipover3g to trick applications so they believed they are on wifi.
I tested edge / 3G call this morning and even on Edge call are good quality. (skype to skype, didn’t tell international call yet)

By: turn.self.off

turn.self.off — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:19:32 +0000

now thats one very roundabout way of doing it.

all thanks to income paranoid carriers…

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:17:27 +0000

Wanna know what’s funny about this? I do this all the time and it just hit me- this is actually tethering the phone to the laptop, not the other way around. :)