Tech Info

1. Jailbreak your iPhone 3G


2. Install 3Proxy and MobileTerminal


3. Fire up the “Cydia” application that was installed during the iPhone 3G jailbreak


4. Navigate to Install>All Packages


5. Find and install MobileTerminal


6. Find and install 3Proxy


7. Hit the “Home” button to verify that MobileTerminal is now installed on the homescreen (3Proxy isn’t a GUI app, so you won’t see an application icon)


8. Create an ad-hoc WiFi network on your laptop laptop


9. Name it something memorable - like “Tether-ific”


10. Lock your iPhone 3G on to the ad-hoc WiFi network you just created


11. Settings>WiFi Networks


12. Find out your iPhone’s IP address


13. Setting>WiFi Networks


14. Tap on the little blue arrow to the right of the WiFi network you just joined - “Tether-ific,” in this case


15. Write down the iPhone IP address


16. Fire up MobileTerminal on your iPhone 3G


17. Execute the proxy program


18. Type in “socks” and hit enter


19. You won’t get any confirmation that the SOCKS server is up and running, but it is


20. Hit the “Hom” button to return to homescreen


21. Remember to quit the MobileTerminal application by opening it later and holding down the “Home” button and forcing it to quit


22. Start up your iPhone’s Safari browser and open a web page


23. Wait for your iPhone’s Safari browser to realize that it can’t use the ad-hoc WiFi network (because it leads nowhere, for now) and then switch to using the 3G data connection


24. This step takes a little while, so be patient


25. Configure Firefox to use your iPhone proxy


26. Preferences>Advanced>Network>Setting


27. Find the “SOCKS Host” field and enter the IP address you wrote down earlier


28. Set port to”1080?


29. Go to Firefox’s address bar and type in “about:config”


30. Hit Enter


31. Find the “Filter” field and type in “socks”


32. Hit Enter


33. Find the entry that looks like “network.proxy.socks_remote_dns”


34. Double click


35. Change value to “true”


36. You’re done, get to surfing the web through your new iPhone 3G tether!

Remember to quit MobileTerminal when you’re done surfing at 3G speeds. Start up MobileTerminal again and hold down the “Home” button until the application force-quits