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How to Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Hotspot Using MyWi

How to Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Hotspot Using MyWi

Posted February 10, 2010 at 7:27pm by iClarified
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These are instructions on how to turn your iPhone into a wireless hotspot so you can share your Internet connection with multiple computers over Wi-Fi.

Beware that sharing your Internet could result in significant data use and thus significant data charges from your network carrier.

Step One
Press to launch Cydia from your iPhone Springboard.
How to Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Hotspot Using MyWi


Step Two
Press to choose the Sections tab from the bottom of the screen.
How to Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Hotspot Using MyWi

Step Three
Press to select System from the list of Sections
How to Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Hotspot Using MyWi

Step Four
Press to select MyWi (No Rock) from the list of Packages.
How to Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Hotspot Using MyWi

Step Five
Press the Appsidy Buy button at the top right of the screen. This will take you through the steps to pay $9.99 for the application using a credit card.
How to Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Hotspot Using MyWi

Step Six
Once you have paid for the application you will be returned to the package details screen where you can now press the Install button at the top right of the screen.
How to Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Hotspot Using MyWi

Step Seven
Press the Confirm button to begin installation.
How to Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Hotspot Using MyWi

Step Eight
Once the installation has completed successfully press the large Restart SpringBoard button.
How to Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Hotspot Using MyWi

Step Nine
Press to launch the MyWi application from your iPhone Springboard.
How to Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Hotspot Using MyWi

Step Ten
If this is your first time launching you will be asked to press the Authenticate button to validate your purchase.
How to Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Hotspot Using MyWi

Step Eleven
Once validated MyWi will need to respring before it can be launched.
How to Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Hotspot Using MyWi

Step Twelve
After the respring relaunch MyWi. You will be prompted to accept the license agreement and the carrier charges warning.
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Step Thirteen
Choose the WiFi Name field and input the name you'd like to specify for your wireless network.
How to Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Hotspot Using MyWi

Step Fourteen
You can press the WiFi Channel field to select the wireless channel your network will broadcast over.
How to Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Hotspot Using MyWi

Step Fifteen
If you would like to enable WEP Security move the switch to the ON position.
How to Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Hotspot Using MyWi

You will then be required to input a password into the WEP Key field. Remember you can only use numbers 0-9 and letters A-F.
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Step Sixteen
If you would like your iPhone to still tether to your computer using USB or Bluetooth you can set the USB and Bluetooth switch to the ON position.
How to Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Hotspot Using MyWi

Step Seventeen
When you are ready to start your wireless hotspot, switch the WiFi Tethering toggle to the ON position. MyWi will warn you that establishing a hotspot will use a lot of battery power. Press the large OK button to continue.
How to Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Hotspot Using MyWi

Step Eighteen
MyWi will now begin broadcasting the wireless network with the name you selected earlier. Use your computer to search for networks and connect to the hotspot!
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Dante
Dante - July 1, 2010 at 2:09am
Can anyone confirm this working on iOS4?
zx9r
zx9r - February 11, 2010 at 4:21pm
Although these install instructs worked perfectly and when enabled the app does connect my mac and iphone thru wifi, it is not provide an IP address. No matter what I try I continue to get "self-assisigned" IP address from the established network and of course cannot connect to the internet without one. Running on iphone 3.0.1. No where I can find any min sys req so no idea if it is not working due to my not being on 3.1.2 or something else. Too bad I had to spend $10 just to find out it doesn't work... does any website or documentation exist for this app?
André Brasil
André Brasil - June 23, 2010 at 10:09am
It seems it only works for 3.1+. I wonder if it runs on IOS 4! People are using this software to share the iphone's internet with iPad, which is great! I was worried about the need to have two 3G plans, one for iPhone and another for iPad. I live in Brazil and an unlimited plan here costs about $75. Imagine $150 to get internet for both my devices! I already access internet at home through tethering, now I can do the same with iPad!.
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