There is a certain coffee shop nearby that I frequent when I need to get some work done away from home.  The WIFI there has always been a little strange and has never really got a long with my iPhone and sometimes I cannot connect to my Netbook.  This has been going on for months.  Today I decided to take some action.  

I was pretty sure that the issue was related to outdated firmware (which it was) on an ageing router so all I really needed to is update the router’s firmware and all would be good.

Here is my journey to upgrading the WIFI in my local coffee shop.

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When I purchased my iPhone I did not realize that MMS was not supported.  When my friends sent me photos using their phone they did not understand why they didn’t come through. Afterall, I do have an iPhone.

AT&T is promising MMS on September 25, along with a software update to enable it.  We’ll see!

With the release of iPhone 3.0 tethering just got easier and there is no longer a need to jailbreak your phone!    Just run a little command in terminal (Make sure you are on OS 3.0 on a 3G iPhone and iTunes 8.2):

defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE

After that, the steps become a lot more simple.

1. Download this file (for AT&T) and mount the disk image (thanks Gizmodo) for other carriers, try here.
2. Option-click on “restore” in your iTunes with your iPhone attached.  Browse to the opened disk image file and hit OK.  It will update phone settings for a few seconds.
3. You have tethering.  Now go into your iPhone/settings/general/network/Internet Tethering and turn it on.

Boom – 3 steps to tethering…

Oh, and how to you like cut and paste and spotlight search?