usb tether pc to ipad 4g

oops, slight correction in my previous message...

I meant to write that "I turned off the wireless radio in my LAPTOP" not ipad., so the laptop perhaps will see the USB connection sooner and try to connect to the ipad as a network discovery

The ipad wifi is also turned off, but the ipad cellular is on and connected to verizon about 3 bars

(the (windows/vista) laptop connects wirelessly with the ipad 4g when I enable the wifi hotspot in the ipad, but I want to get try to get better bandwidth using the usb wired-tether)

dizzydoz

I have iTunes version 9 installed.... but do I have to have it running in another window when I try the tethering or just the fact that I installed it is good enough?

I will check if there is a newer version

thanks

well, updated itunes on laptop to newest version 10

tried to do a usb tether to the ipad 4g again, same results, the laptop (windows/vista) doesn not see the ipad on network and sharing center.

when I first connect the ipad to the laptop, itunes starts and connects to the ipad (this also happened with the old version 9) for syncing or transfering files.

but the usb tethering to ipad is not happening at all.

searching internet I am a little surprised that out of thousands of hits, no one anywhere appears to have ever done this, I see references to a lot of usb tethering to iphones or ipods or apple computers but nothing about using the ipad's cellular connection as a usb hotspot to be used by a windows pc machine.

Maybe the "usb hotspot" function is inherently only for connection to apple machines ?

again, the wifi hotspot works fine between the laptop and ipad, but the usb hotspot does not, at all, never even seems to try.

dizzydoz