If you’re looking for a way to tether your iPhone and get online with your Mac, iPhoneModem may be just the ticket.

Product Description:

The best available solution iPhoneModem.app provides the easiest and safest way to use your iPhone as a modem to connect you to the internet. Despite the the unsafe connection bewteen your Mac and your iPhone your data are safe because all communication between both devices are encrypted by SSH. Who needs this solution? Everybody who does not want to use the terminal but need the option to work with your provided flatrate like you can do with other cell phones, too. iPhoneModem works with all jail broken iPhones 2G and 3G over EDGE and UMTS.

Setup for your Mac

copy iPhoneModem.app to your application folder.

if you want to launch it automatically, activate it in your start objects file.

Your network environment “automatic” must exist.

Start iPhoneModem.app – that’s all.

Start iPhoneModem Setup.


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Setup for your iPhone

Install with Cydia OpenSSH.

Install Insomnia with Cydia.

Install BossPrefs for starting and stopping the SSH server.

Change pass word for the SSH server!!!!

Start your iPhoneModem

Click on “Start connection” in the menu

When you see the message “Connect with iPhone WLan…” start the WLan on your iPhone and connect with the WLan

Start the SSH server on your iPhone in case it does not already run.

Wait till you see the message that your iPhone is connected.

Start Insomnia on your iPhone.

If you want to quit press “Quit connection”

End WLAN on the iPhone.

iPhoneModem is in Beta right now and is a free at the moment, but the developer is accepting donations if you like the software.