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Personal Hotspot works on iPhone 3GS but ..

According to many news reports that only iPhone 4 has this feature. However, after the update of IOS 4.3, my iPhone 3GS can share the wireless network via bluetooth or USB (but not WiFi) with my iPad

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Posted on Mar 9, 2011 5:55 PM

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Brett C

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Mar 28, 2011 1:26 PM in response to kayjh

kayjh wrote:
Does anyone know whether this will work on the Rogers network in Canada?

yes, I'm on Rogers and this works for me with iPhone 3GS (4.3) and iPad (4.3)

basically it's treated same as tethering, so no additional charge if you have a data plan with 1GB or more (I'm on the 6GB plan)

Apr 17, 2011 1:20 PM in response to epot

I'm looking into doing the same thing and doing away with my iPad 3G data plan. However, I've never tethered via Bluetooth before. I understand that it's not as fast as wifi, but how does it compare to direct 3G? Will I see a large "downgrade" on my iPad speed when using my 3GS "hotspot" to tether via Bluetooth versus the iPad's direct 3G?

Hope my question makes sense.

Personal Hotspot works on iPhone 3GS but ..

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