Comments on: Review: MyWi turns your iPhone into a wireless hotspot [Jailbreak Apps]

By: Crhistian

Crhistian — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:32:57 +0000

hey does anybody know if this app MyWi take data from your iphone? i am trying to find out if it takes your data. i have a 2gb data iphone but i dont want it to take my data. i only wanna use it for computers and ipods. and if it does take data from your phone, how much does it take?
answer me soon please.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:06:00 +0000

I installed MyWi today and worked just fine, as described, everything ok, but I saw a problem: I connected my iPad to the tethered iPhone (MyWi) and used it for about 15 minutes just to browse Facebook and Fidelity website and this was enough to drain my data plan. I should mention that I have a “Pay as you go” plan on my iPhone 3GS, meaning it is not a monthly unlimited data plan, I am using the APN carrier crack from unlockit.co.nz. I had about 80mb left on my data plan, which I consumed with those 15 minutes browsing on the iPad.

My question is: does the tethering over iPhone 3G internet consumes a lot of bytes? I mean, maybe the packets downloaded to the iPad are not formatted as mobile data but normal WiFi internet data packages?

Thanks for reading.

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 04:03:00 +0000

Xp pro didn't think u would need iTunes?

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:33:17 +0000

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:53:34 +0000

In reply to Shane. need a bit more detail there. Operating Systems? But it may be that you do need the latest version of iTunes to get tethering to work.

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:50:14 +0000

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:34:33 +0000

I purChased mywi4.0 for 20 bux now for some reason I have no problems setting up a hotspur everything connects great but when I try USB the only CPU that recognizes the connection is my desktop now my netbook only reconizes it as a camera same with the computers at work I've tried on numerous cpus with only failed results, do you have to have iTunes on the CPU for the USB tethering to work? If not what is going on here I cannot figure this out for the life of me thanks guys
Shane

By: Review Update: MyWi 4.0 for iPhone [Jailbreak] « Just Another iPhone Blog

Review Update: MyWi 4.0 for iPhone [Jailbreak] « Just Another iPhone Blog — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:33:00 +0000

[…] I can’t guarantee that it’s a good way to work around tethering plan costs on your phone plan, but MyWi 4.0 is a very convenient, if initially expensive, way to use your iPhone data plan the way you want to. Activating WiFi Tethering allows up to four devices to connect to the iPhone over — you guessed it — WiFi. However, the app also allows you to tether your iPhone to your Mac or PC via USB. I described both processes in a little more detail in my original MyWi review. […]

By: MyWi 4.0 for iPhone: iOS 4 compatible, requires upgrade fee [Jailbreak Only] « Just Another iPhone Blog

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:11:20 +0000

[…] (reviewed here) has been updated to work on iOS 4, and has received a number of major improvements in the process. […]

By: John

John — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:32:03 +0000

In reply to TychoQuad. search for "rec boot" this will kick the iphone out of the restore screen.

By: G25

G25 — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:51:54 +0000

MyWi should be allowed on the appstore. I hate jailbreaking but this is one of the reasons someone would.

By: Will you still want to jailbreak on iPhone OS 4.0? « Just Another iPhone Blog

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:01:58 +0000

[…] a few apps I’ll miss should I run a vanilla version of 4.0, though. Chief among them are MyWi, Notifier, and WeatherIcon. However, Apple was able to address a lot of my major usability issues […]

By: John Steele

John Steele — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:25:42 +0000

In reply to Thomas. Now that's a test! I think these developers earned their $10.

By: John Steele

John Steele — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:24:41 +0000

In reply to Thomas. I tried to do this for TychoQuad, but I think I goofed. I made the comment because he wrote (Which isn't often, as I hate itunes and have to run it in a virtual machine.). Sorry for the confusion! Great post BTW Thomas!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:42:01 +0000

In reply to John Steele. Sorry John -- confused about whom the apply was addressed to. If you meant me, I'm on a Mac. No Linux here, and no virtual machines. Find them a bit messy to work with.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:50:37 +0000

In reply to John Steele. I tried this out with an iPod touch and a netbook while surfing on my 3GS. I believe up to four devices can be connected. The speed was fine for browsing, although it probably did take a bit of a hit. My friends even skyped each other over the connection just for kicks.

By: John Steele

John Steele — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:21:48 +0000

This might show my stupidity, but I’ll share it anyway. I tested the app. It worked a little too good. So I thought it was just passing my home wifi to my Macbook (spoiler: it wasn’t). So I disabled iPhone wifi and tried again. This really made me phone go haywire. 4 restarts and several times toggling iPhone wifi lead to a happy ending, and about 5-10 minutes wasted. I plan on keeping this App and using it for when I travel and desire a better browsing experience than Safari can provide.

Has anyone else noticed that a lot of the “fancier’ hotels charge for crappier wifi than what is available for free at the “budget” hotels?

Also, did anyone test this with 2 devices at once? I’d like to see how 2 laptops utilize this mywi signal…

By: John Steele

John Steele — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:16:44 +0000

In reply to TychoQuad. Are you a Linux user? I assume so because otherwise I am confused why you would use a virtual machine for Itunes. I am not trying to be a jerk, just trying to learn more.

By: RustyHoge

RustyHoge — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:50:38 +0000

Sounds like a perfect companion for an iPad – free 3G when you need it.

By: TychoQuad

TychoQuad — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:17:49 +0000

In reply to Thomas. Apple logo came up within seconds, went away after about a minute, leaving me with a powered down brick. The only other thing I could get the phone to display was the "Connect to iTunes" restore screen.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:55:33 +0000

In reply to TychoQuad. Holy crap. Very sorry to hear about that. I've installed the app twice now and haven't had any such problems, though I have had other jailbreak apps give me similar grief. How long did you wait for the apple logo? One time it honestly took my phone 3-4 minutes to reboot, thanks to AnyRing. I deleted the app soon after.

By: TychoQuad

TychoQuad — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:01:59 +0000

It’s good to see you didn’t have any problems with it, but unfortunately for me, it killed my phone.

I installed MyWi and attempted to try it out, upon hitting the on button in the app, I got a loader, then after about 10 seconds. it told me that there was a problem, and a restart could possibly solve it. Obeying the dialog, I rebooted my phone, and as expected, got the apple logo. Unfortunately that’s as far as it got, then turned itself off. I could not get the phone to take me past the apple logo, I tried everything.

In the end, I had to restore my phone, losing everything I had done since my last itunes backup. (Which isn’t often, as I hate itunes and have to run it in a virtual machine.)