Will an iPhone use my laptops internet connection?

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Will an iPhone use my laptops internet connection?

To Whom It May Concern,

I have a laptop and it is connected to the internet, but I do not have WiFi available. Is it possible to have my iPhone access internet by connecting it to my laptop? If yes, please tell me how. Thank you for your help.

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Posted on Jul 28, 2009 10:19 AM

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gumsie

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Jul 28, 2009 10:36 AM in response to GumpTron

Sort of. When you say Wifi is not available, do you mean not as an existing network or do you mean that you have no wifi card in your laptop?
If you do have a Wifi enabled laptop you should be able to share your internet connection.

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gumsie

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Jul 28, 2009 10:42 AM in response to GumpTron

Your laptop is not a Mac?
If so then I cannot help you as I'm not up to speed with Windoze in that area.
If it is just go to +System Preferences>Sharing>Internet Sharing+, you'd be doing something similar to; +Share my connection from Ethernet, To computers using Airport+.

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GumpTron Author

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Jul 28, 2009 10:45 AM in response to gumsie

No it is not a mac. So it is not possible to have my iPhone use the internet connection my laptop is running on? What if i hack the phone, can i find a third party app that will allow me to use my laptops Ethernet internet connection?

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gumsie

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Jul 28, 2009 10:53 AM in response to GumpTron

GumpTron wrote:
No it is not a mac. So it is not possible to have my iPhone use the internet connection my laptop is running on?

Possibly but as I said I'm not up to speed with Windows so I don't know how to get the networking options into the necessary state to accomplish what you need.

What if i hack the phone, can i find a third party app that will allow me to use my laptops Ethernet internet connection?

I have no idea. I suspect also that anything that involves hacking the phone would be removed from this Apple forum pretty sharpish.

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Jul 28, 2009 10:53 AM in response to gumsie

gumsie wrote:
You sure? I have my mums PowerMac connected to the service over ethernet which I then share using Airport.

He/she said they didn't have wireless so if that's the case the answer would be no.

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GumpTron Author

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Jul 28, 2009 10:39 AM in response to gumsie

Hi gumsie,

My laptop does have a wifi ability but i do not have a wifi modem. All i have is my laptop connected to modem via Ethernet.

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Jul 28, 2009 10:41 AM in response to GumpTron

Is it possible to have my iPhone access internet by connecting it to my laptop?

No

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gumsie

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Jul 28, 2009 10:44 AM in response to Templeton Peck

You sure? I have my mums PowerMac connected to the service over ethernet which I then share using Airport.

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Tamara

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Jul 28, 2009 10:55 AM in response to gumsie

Apple's airport hardware is a wifi device. We use an Airport Express to share wireless printing.

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gumsie

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Jul 28, 2009 10:56 AM in response to Templeton Peck

Yep. I did try to clarify whether he means an existing network being available for him to use or whether he has a wifi enabled laptop, and he stated that he does.

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