Well.
Rooted/Rom'd/Kernel'd my phone earlier today, went just fine (netarchy 421more beta, ava v10).
Only problem is when i wifi tether, the 3rd party apps won't work. Sprint's hotspot works fine but when i try to connect with barnacle/a couple others it connects, then about 10 seconds after connected i lose internet access, but the wireless signal is still being recieved. I fiddled with settings etc and no luck.
Sprint's stock app works fine, and 3g tether is my primary connection source as i live in the middle of nowhere (good for everything but fps games, 200ping not cool). My connection shows 3 {+/-1} bars most of the time, speeds top out at 200kb/s dl. If i use sprint's hotspot app in my rooted phone do i still have to pay 30$/m for the hotspot service?
i don't recall any outside links in my post. (edit, declares all (at) symbols outside links.)
edit; lack of responses. easier question; Does a rooted phone using sprint's hotspot app still have to pay 30$/mo for use of it?
[Galactus] said:
Well.
Rooted/Rom'd/Kernel'd my phone earlier today, went just fine (netarchy 421more beta, ava v10).
Only problem is when i wifi tether, the 3rd party apps won't work. Sprint's hotspot works fine but when i try to connect with barnacle/a couple others it connects, then about 10 seconds after connected i lose internet access, but the wireless signal is still being recieved. I fiddled with settings etc and no luck.
Sprint's stock app works fine, and 3g tether is my primary connection source as i live in the middle of nowhere (good for everything but fps games, 200ping not cool). My connection shows 3 {+/-1} bars most of the time, speeds top out at 200kb/s dl. If i use sprint's hotspot app in my rooted phone do i still have to pay 30$/m for the hotspot service?
i don't recall any outside links in my post. (edit, declares all (at) symbols outside links.)
edit; lack of responses. easier question; Does a rooted phone using sprint's hotspot app still have to pay 30$/mo for use of it?
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ok, so your using barnacle to do you tethering. Unless sprint hotspot is unlocked with calkuins hack, then yes you will have to pay for the tethering using, i believe it wont work if havent already paid for the feature. I suggest checking back with the Original Poster's ROM thread. Try using wireless tethering! the best out there, try this link
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list
Note: all the PRE-releases are EXPERIMENTAL, and can cause Fcs (force close) so if you dont feel comfortable with a pre-release, dl a stable set, ex: 2.02 (something like that) give me back results if this works for you bro.
ava v10 came with the latest version of that, i don't understand why it isn't working correctly.
I can connect/recognize but as soon as i try to load a page it goes using that.
That'd be with 100% signal strength + connected and "no internet access"
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ava v10 came with the latest version of that, i don't understand why it isn't working correctly.
I can connect/recognize but as soon as i try to load a page it goes using that.
That'd be with 100% signal strength + connected and "no internet access"
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ava 10....haha, ok. The sprint hotspot it hacked. Whatcha do is:
1)activate wireless tethering, and sprint hotspot should activate too.
2)connect to your wireless tethering, not the hotspot,then turn off wireless tethering, and your pc will lose the connection.
3)try turning wireless tethering back on, and connect as fast as possible. It should go through this time. Happens to me and a few others that run roms with calkuin's tether hack.
Report back with result.
if you need more help, you can contact me via Talk. (gmail account)
easier way to communicate.
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yeah... that didn't work either, do you know of a way to unlock sprint 3g hotspot/wifi tether without changing to his rom?
otherwise i'll just load his up as i don't really have another option...
[Galactus] said:
yeah... that didn't work either, do you know of a way to unlock sprint 3g hotspot/wifi tether without changing to his rom?
otherwise i'll just load his up as i don't really have another option...
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well lets fix this, you are new right? what kind of rom are you wanting so i can give you the link to a good rom.
Just look for MIUI 11.12 or 11.19
Virus base and Virus Anthrax series
also FRESH
Myn's WARM twopointwo
and another good rom is CM 6.1
last but not least Ultimate Droid
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I'm picking up the Motorola Xoom Wifi when Sam's Club gets it this month (hopefully), and I'm playing around with my options for wifi tethering on my Evo. I'm running mikfroyo 4.5, and I feel that the hacked sprint hotspot offers the best battery life and internetspeeds, but it doesnt support 4g. Sometimes I'll be in an area where 4g speeds are in excess of 1 megabyte (yes byte) per second and want to take advantage of that. The wireless tether for root users seems to drain and heat up the battery quite a bit and it doesnt seem as fast as the sprint hotspot app. Short of paying sprint an extra 30 bucks a month (at which point I'd rather just activate the xoom under verizon) what do you recommend?
No preferance?
Unfortunately those are pretty much your only options. Easy Tether, Wireless Tether, or the hacked stock tether. There's no way around it, wifi tethering uses a lot of battery. Your phone is using both the 3g/4g radio and the wifi radio.
Now after using unrevoked does the hotspot work or do you have to flash a rom that has the hotspot hacked.
If you are rooted than you can just download wireless tether from the market.
Wireless tether is undoubtedly faster because it supports 4g. I found my phone only really gets too hot whem I download several gigs worth of data. Ive had my phone creep past the 140° f mark, at that point some internal safety thing kicked on and stopped the phone from charging. Phone survived without any notable longterm damage, but it was scary
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Thanx for the info
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Now after using unrevoked does the hotspot work or do you have to flash a rom that has the hotspot hacked.
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If you stay on the stock rom, you will have to download Wireless Tether. The sprint hotspot only works for free with other custom roms.
sitlet said:
If you stay on the stock rom, you will have to download Wireless Tether. The sprint hotspot only works for free with other custom roms.
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hey im running CM7 nightly and my wifi tether does not work anymore...when i had CM 6.1 it ws workin fine but not anymore...any ideas
weztcoazt said:
hey im running CM7 nightly and my wifi tether does not work anymore...when i had CM 6.1 it ws workin fine but not anymore...any ideas
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It would help if you told us what method you are using to tether. Wireless Tether, stock tether, etc...
It seems to be wireless tether. Its broken for a lot of users on CM7 at this point; I'd recommend using the built in hotspot.
I am s-off, and rooted running that awesome GingerbreadSense ROM, and i thought just for kicks I'd try the stock mobile3G hotspot too see if it works, since it's my only means of accessing the internet from my laptop...and my jaw dropped because it works flawlessly and very faast....but my question is...am i paying out of the ass for tethering? or is it the loophole affect, or am ijust lucky?
Did you get any sort of verizon message about charging for the service? If not, you're fine. There's also other apps that you can use to tether (for free). The one that I've found that works best is called "wireless tether", you can google it and download it from the code.google page. Another good app is "barnacle wifi tether" and you should be able to get that one on the market.
Also, I'm not sure if you're new with verizon and on a tiered plan, but if so, watch out because tethering uses a lot of data. Nice thing about "wireless tether" is that it keeps a total of how much you've downloaded/uploaded during that tethering session.
Hello,
I have the epic 4g touch rooted with starburst rom. I installed android wifi tether app and I am able to connect to the wifi from laptop, but i cant actually browse to any websites. I can ping from cmd prompt to sites. When I use sprint hotspot everything works fine. Also is there an app that will let me tether at 4g speed?
hshaik1109 said:
Hello,
I have the epic 4g touch rooted with starburst rom. I installed android wifi tether app and I am able to connect to the wifi from laptop, but i cant actually browse to any websites. I can ping from cmd prompt to sites. When I use sprint hotspot everything works fine. Also is there an app that will let me tether at 4g speed?
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Is there a reason why you want to use the wifi-tether app and not the sprint hot-spot?
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Is there a reason why you want to use the wifi-tether app and not the sprint hot-spot?
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I wanted to tether at 4g speed, I thought I cant do that with sprint hotspot, also I have the unlimited data plan, but I am not sure if sprint hotspot costs money.
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Is there a reason why you want to use the wifi-tether app and not the sprint hot-spot?
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3rd party tethering apps (ie, wifi tether, usb EasyTether, bluetooth tether) are not subjected to the 5GB Hot Spot Sprint limitation. The data used by these apps are seen as "phone data" which is unlimited, whereas Hot Spot data is limited to 5GB with overage charges/fees.
Am I right?
Plus... it's bad enough having the phone run on 4G now you want it to act like a wireless router transmitting over wifi to tether a laptop. HOT HOT HOT
I think 4G tethering is most efficient and "coolest" in temperature over USB Tethering. If you must tether wirelessly, then Bluetooth is probably better than wifi. Not as big of a battery drain.
ctbearz said:
3rd party tethering apps (ie, wifi tether, usb EasyTether, bluetooth tether) are not subjected to the 5GB Hot Spot Sprint limitation. The data used by these apps are seen as "phone data" which is unlimited, whereas Hot Spot data is limited to 5GB with overage charges/fees.
Am I right?
Plus... it's bad enough having the phone run on 4G now you want it to act like a wireless router transmitting over wifi to tether a laptop. HOT HOT HOT
I think 4G tethering is most efficient and "coolest" in temperature over USB Tethering. If you must tether wirelessly, then Bluetooth is probably better than wifi. Not as big of a battery drain.
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hey so i dont have bluetooth on my laptop.. i just use it at work on my laptop to stream music, netflix etc. so which thrid party app would be recommended for 4g. I get great 4g signal at my office. Also i get really really crappy speed with usb tethering like 069 dwn and .65 up
what version of wifi tether are you using?
I'm using v3-beta-6. I can connect using 4g, browsing websites and such. But for some reason, the down steam speeds are capped at ~0.7Mbs when I run a speed test. On my phone, I get 10Mbs down. I know its using 4g because the ping time is much lower and my upload stream is 1.5Mbs.
On 3g, i'm only getting .85 Mbs down and 0.5Mbs up
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hey so i dont have bluetooth on my laptop.. i just use it at work on my laptop to stream music, netflix etc. so which thrid party app would be recommended for 4g. I get great 4g signal at my office. Also i get really really crappy speed with usb tethering like 069 dwn and .65 up
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Easytether app is what I use to tether over uab. works amazingly well with no slow down. I also use wifi tether beta 6 but not very often because it gets hot. Speeds are super fast for me over 4G USB tethering, like 8-10mbps.
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i have the sprint hotspot hack working on my phone. that is the only reason i have root and stuff done to it. have to admit i have not used it yet, but my wifes nook color and my galaxy 10.1 sees it and it works great for the quick test i did.i needed infrastructure and got sick of fighting wifi teather(?)
[ACS][Mod][EK02][EL13][EL26][Deodex][Odex]Hotspot Mod Now With 4G!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1394371
works with el29, just follow the download link.
hope this helps
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Easytether app is what I use to tether over uab. works amazingly well with no slow down. I also use wifi tether beta 6 but not very often because it gets hot. Speeds are super fast for me over 4G USB tethering, like 8-10mbps.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium
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ok i am going to try easytether assuming i can get it from market. i tried barnicle tether as well and i get ping replies from lets say google.com. I still cant browse. I just think its so slow the sites times out. I am going to try the easy tether and see how that works.
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what version of wifi tether are you using?
I'm using v3-beta-6. I can connect using 4g, browsing websites and such. But for some reason, the down steam speeds are capped at ~0.7Mbs when I run a speed test. On my phone, I get 10Mbs down. I know its using 4g because the ping time is much lower and my upload stream is 1.5Mbs.
On 3g, i'm only getting .85 Mbs down and 0.5Mbs up
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I have tried 3 of the newest version from their site. All of them I get the same thing. It connects and i can ping and everything but none of the websites open. I tried using sprint hotspot (which only works at 3g) and i get about 1.2 dwn and .7up. I want to get the full 4g speed
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I have tried 3 of the newest version from their site. All of them I get the same thing. It connects and i can ping and everything but none of the websites open. I tried using sprint hotspot (which only works at 3g) and i get about 1.2 dwn and .7up. I want to get the full 4g speed
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I am a little confused because I see the link posted for the 4g hotspot fix which has been out for quite some time now. Also as far as it causing issues with Sprint you can rest assure if that was the case it would be posted all over this community. I am not sure why your phone is not working properly with the wifi tethers but I can assure you that Sprint Hotspot on our phone works quite lovely. Also the data usage restrictions do not apply for phones but for actual Hotspot devices. Please go to the link listed above flash the hotspot mod and enjoy life..... It works I am on it right now....
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ok i am going to try easytether assuming i can get it from market. i tried barnicle tether as well and i get ping replies from lets say google.com. I still cant browse. I just think its so slow the sites times out. I am going to try the easy tether and see how that works.
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I just tried easytether. Installed it from market, followed direction and got it working. I got 8.17mb dwn and 1.34mb up. I am going to keep playing with it. Thanks everyone for helping out appreciate it.
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I am a little confused because I see the link posted for the 4g hotspot fix which has been out for quite some time now. Also as far as it causing issues with Sprint you can rest assure if that was the case it would be posted all over this community. I am not sure why your phone is not working properly with the wifi tethers but I can assure you that Sprint Hotspot on our phone works quite lovely. Also the data usage restrictions do not apply for phones but for actual Hotspot devices. Please go to the link listed above flash the hotspot mod and enjoy life..... It works I am on it right now....
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Actually the title says "plz help with 4g tethering". I had it working with sprint hotspot as well but not at 4g speed. I had tried other app android wifitether and barnacle with no luck. Thanks to ctbears I got easy tether working with 8mbdwn/1.34 up.
hshaik1109 said:
Actually the title says "plz help with 4g tethering". I had it working with sprint hotspot as well but not at 4g speed. I had tried other app android wifitether and barnacle with no luck. Thanks to ctbears I got easy tether working with 8mbdwn/1.34 up.
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No prob man you got it working so rock on!
hshaik1109 said:
Actually the title says "plz help with 4g tethering". I had it working with sprint hotspot as well but not at 4g speed. I had tried other app android wifitether and barnacle with no luck. Thanks to ctbears I got easy tether working with 8mbdwn/1.34 up.
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you're welcome enjoy your tethering!
hshaik1109 said:
Actually the title says "plz help with 4g tethering". I had it working with sprint hotspot as well but not at 4g speed. I had tried other app android wifitether and barnacle with no luck. Thanks to ctbears I got easy tether working with 8mbdwn/1.34 up.
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I'm not sure what hot spot thread you were in but the hot spot hack works on 3g and 4g. And it reads now with 4g not help with 4g... I've used it on both ek02 and el29 with no issues. I hardly ever use sprints crappy 3g and I'm tethering fine. Also take into consideration the hot spot is infrastructure and can be access by more than just computers unlike the tether apps on the market which all are ad hoc...
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I'm not sure what hot spot thread you were in but the hot spot hack works on 3g and 4g. And it reads now with 4g not help with 4g... I've used it on both ek02 and el29 with no issues. I hardly ever use sprints crappy 3g and I'm tethering fine. Also take into consideration the hot spot is infrastructure and can be access by more than just computers unlike the tether apps on the market which all are ad hoc...
Edit: I just realized somebody posted the link to the hot spot hack and it clearly says it has 4g. I'm done with this thread... LOL!
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Meant to edit my 1st post and I quoted myself.. Wow I must be smoking some good ish!!!
I have Calk 2.8.1 which supports sprint 4g hotspot. But in reality, I can never get download speed past the 3g speed. Upload is fast but download seems to be capped to 3g speed a confirmed by other users. EasyTether blows them all away with 4g speed of 8-10 Mbps. But of course it is not wireless and does not support infra structure mode.
Here's what I did to get full 4g speed while tethering via wifi..
Go to market and install filter proxy..
Open application, enable it and remember port number (Default is 8000)
Start wifi tethering..
Setup proxy in your browser, point it to your phone's ip address and port 8000 (if you use default)
Do this for http, https and ftp..
And you are all set.. Test your speed.
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Here's what I did to get full 4g speed while tethering via wifi..
Go to market and install filter proxy..
Open application, enable it and remember port number (Default is 8000)
Start wifi tethering..
Setup proxy in your browser, point it to your phone's ip address and port 8000 (if you use default)
Do this for http, https and ftp..
And you are all set.. Test your speed.
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I can't seem to find the exact app. Will this work with Sprint Hotspot WIFI tethering or just the 4G Android Wifi Tether.
I just tested Android WifiTether 3.1beta 6 and it seems to pass the full 4g speed to connected device. I am losing 10% or less in 5 tests.
Hi, hoping someone here can help with this issue…
I have read through the Q&A and tried the fixes mentioned with only one working – the proxy server setting posted here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=966418
My problem is that prior to this rom, no fix was necessary – wifi tether on 4g was as fast as the speeds I was getting on the phone itself. Now I am lucky if I break 200 kBs /sec tethered (w/o the fix). And this fix only works for surfing and downloads via the browser. I still get the same crappy speeds if I am dl a torrent.
I am running MikG 3.11 – no mods, themes, or kernels. Just the plain rom. Using Amron recovery and wiped everything before install. No partition. I used to run Konis III, then the Konis IV and both worked fine with wifi tether (2.0.7) “out of the box”.
I’ve tried several different versions of wifi tether, ran the command to remove the routefix.sh , cleared the dalvik-cache, all with no luck. Have updated radio, prl, wimax, etc, and updated my profile. I read somewhere about unlocking wireless n, so I am about to give it a try, but hoping maybe someone here has an idea. I see most of the posts are older, so maybe there is something easy I am missing.
Tia for any help.
nurvus
I never really had any luck with the tethering apps or unlocked sprint hotspot. They were all fairly slow for me. The only rom that had great tethering (built in) was CM7. For some reason, Sense roms never tethered well for me.
Yeah it turns the 4g radio off when you turn on the the Sprint hotspot use this
http://code.google.com/p/android-wi...ail?name=wifi_tether_v3_1-beta12.apk&can=2&q=
I use the Jan build so I haven't tried the new but they all have worked flawlessly on 4g
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I don't use the hotspot, only wifi tether for 4g. i've tried many versions with no luck.
trukenx, are you on a sense rom? do you get full 4g speeds? i'm just a bit frustrated because it used to work on Konis (sense rom), and then not for mikg 3.11. I falshed back to konis and now that won't work properly either (meaning i won't get full 4g speeds while tethered - i can tether, just at way reduced speeds ).
i'll keep trying other builds of wifi tether. Evocm7, do you get full 4g speeds when tethered on cm7?
thanks again
nurvus
nurvus said:
i'll keep trying other builds of wifi tether. Evocm7, do you get full 4g speeds when tethered on cm7?
thanks again
nurvus
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I was never able to test tethering with 4g since Sprint scrapped WiMAX before they brought it to my area. However, 3g tethering was much faster with cm7's built in tethering than an app or unlocked hotspot on a sense Rom so I would assume the same would go for 4g. I do not have my EVO or Sprint anymore to test in an area with WiMAX. Just couldn't stand sprints internet anymore. Miss my EVO though
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ad blocker maybe? i know it slows down 4g on the phone itself
great point with the adblocker, it could be limiting the data pass through on the tethering also i would wipe the data on the currect hotspot or back up and completely uninstall it also check the settings on other tethering app open garden was out and pretty much mirrored the free WiFi tether code... and lastly check the setting and firewall of the device you are using make sure that is also not blocking or limiting the network speeds of you tethering connections.. eg port blocking, bandwidth throttling, etc.
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great point with the adblocker, it could be limiting the data pass through on the tethering also i would wipe the data on the currect hotspot or back up and completely uninstall it also check the settings on other tethering app open garden was out and pretty much mirrored the free WiFi tether code... and lastly check the setting and firewall of the device you are using make sure that is also not blocking or limiting the network speeds of you tethering connections.. eg port blocking, bandwidth throttling, etc.
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Thanks, but no luck. Odd that it used to work fine, then all of sudden not anymore. Well, using the proxy settings I can get good speeds via the browser. Any settings for utorrent to get the same speeds? I tried using the same settings posted for the proxy fix, but no dice...
thanks again.
Ok i am having trouble with getting the right tethering app for this rom.I have been searching since the 26th for a tethering app that works right,I have used barnicle,easy tethering(works but not wireless),Wireless Tethering(Saids starting but also logs error)Im needing a wireless tethering app that will actually work like its suppose to because my phone is the only way i can use my internet and me and my wife normally use it on both of our laptops at the same time.Im not A verizon customer.I personally flashed my Dinc 2 to Cricket.I do have a tethering plan but since i flashed from 2.3.3 rom my wireless tethering doesnt work..Barnicle works sometimes but connection speed is 11mbs when stock tethering was running 54mbs...The app is really slow and then when me and my wife gets on from our laptops at the same time it acts like it kicks me or her off to run on just one laptop at a time...Can someone please help???Does anyone know how i can fix this or is there a app that im not finding that actually works like system 3g Hotspot???Thank yall
No network
I flashed this ROM last night and lost any network connection, not sure why, could connect over wifi, I'm hoping thee is a fix for the tethering because I use the phone for internet at work and use Barnacle, which has always worked flawlessly.
Barnacle works fine as far as I can tell. Using it now.
I'm using barnacle as well, but you only get ad-hoc mode. Has anyone had luck with wifi tether or opengarden or any of the other apps? I need to get on my work VPN, but it doesn't connect through ad-hoc, so barnacle is no good for that.