Want Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot like the Verizon iPhone? You can already do it on Jailbreak with MyWi

Posted Jan 15, 2011 at 5:02PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Hacking and Jailbreaking Tags: apple, ios, jailbreak

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MyWi is a wonderful little app and in my opinion, a major reason to jailbreak on its own. MyWi alllows you to create a wifi hotspot with your iPhone. I have a wifi only iPad and I never even considered purchasing the 3G version. I simply tether my iPad to my iPhone. Just be wary of doing this if you don’t have an unlimited data plan. As of writing this, MyWi currently costs $19.99. It may seem like a hefty price tag but you’ll pay that in data and/or tethering fees in less than 2 months. You’ll only pay for MyWi once. You do the math.

The MyWi app by Intelliborn has been one of the biggest reasons to jailbreak an iOS based device. With the latest 4.0 release, creating a wireless hotspot has never been easier. For a one-time fee of $19.99 you can turn your stingy 3G iPad into a wireless hotspot capable of sharing your 3G connection with as many devices as you wish. Here’s the process to to get it and enable it: 1. First things first. MyWi is a $19.99 app ($9.99 for previous MyWi 3.x users) but there is a FREE 10-day trial. This is perfect for those of you who are hesitant in buying an app that you may not like or need. The trial version provides you with the full version of the app with all features available. 2. Download the MyWi 4.0 app from Cydia, this used to be only available on The Rock. But now that Cydia have acquired The Rock – it is now the featured product on Cydia. 3. Once you are all installed, open the MyWi 4.0 app. You will get a prompt telling you this is a trial version. The image shown below assumes you already paid for the app. 4. As shown below, you have the option to set WEP security. We highly recommend you enable WEP security. You don’t want any freeloaders sucking your 3G bandwidth away. There are also options to tether your iPad using USB and even BlueTooth. For the sake of this tutorial, we’ll assume you just want to create a hotspot.

5. Set your WEP password (or not) and hit the toggle next to WiFi Tethering. The status bar on the bottom of the app will give you indications on when your hotspot is activated. That’s it.

As shown above, you can tell MyWi whether or not you want a tethering bar (pulsing blue bar that resides under the status bar on your springboard indicating tethering is on) or a simple icon in the status bar for MyWi. The status bar icon is a new feature to 4.0 and one that takes no power away.

For those of you concerned with how much power this takes from your iPad, I can neither confirm nor deny that when you use this app for 9+ hours a day, your battery (starting at 100%) will likely only die down to about 70% or so. Seriously. MyWi will also let you monitor how many users are using your connection and how your battery is holding up  (shown above).

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