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Tethering problem
 

This morning, I tethered and tried to go on ebay and paypal, but I couldn't connect to my selling page, or even access paypal.com, but I could go on every other single site I could think of. Anyone know what the problem is.

possibly a paypal/ebay problem. try again later

or the ip is blocked.

either way try again later

Try again but using a new User Account in the computer.

tried that, but it still does not work

Try a different browser

I tried different user, ip, and also browser, but it still is not working. I can get onto ebay's front page, but when I click on selling, or anything else used to sell it cannot connect, although I can search for things. Also, paypal does not connect at all. I checked on amazon, and for some reason, some parts of that site is also not connecting. All other sites work though, so I am perplexed by this.

What tethering app are you using?

Oh yea, some tethering apps will not let the user on to websites that require logging into the website.

See if you can log into your email account or any other websites that require logging in. If you cant log in, then the app is your problem. I would switch it to something else, like wireless tether or Open Garden Wifi tether. Both problems are free and have no restrictions. But you would need to root your phone to have access to the phone kernal to install "Superuser" program.

If you don't want to root your phone or have problems how too, then I would suggest "easy tether pro". The free version will still work but doesn't log into "HTTPS" websites, ebay and paypal. You will need to pay $10 for the pro version but you can use it for any phone in the future after that. It works for Android and Iphone phones.

You just need your phone, a USB cable, and your computer. It works by the USB cable, not wifi. You have to install the program on your and each computer you use, also have the program install on your phone for it to work.

What I do is I have the computer program, "drivers", saved to my phone in case I would need to use another laptop. I install the program to the new laptop and I am good to go.

I use pdanet, but the problem only occured today, before I used it and it worked flawlessly every single time, and I had not updated the app or anything.

I think I found your problem. I got it from their website. I guess you have to pay to access HTTPS websites.

***Note: Once trial expires, you can continue using PdaNet for free. The only difference is that free edition blocks secure web sites.

This is common with many USB tethering programs, easy tether pro has the same deal. You can access any website for the first 7 days then after that your restricted. I guess you just installed that program on your phone and now the free trial is over, so time to pay up.

awww dammit, thanks a lot for looking that up for me, I was thinking it was too good to be free forever...

just switch to easy tether pro, use it for 7 days and switch back to the other problem or find another USB tethering program. In the end you might have to pay up for root the phone.

I'm using tetherme, it's only $4.99 for the app in cydia, for jailbroken iphones.

lol you got robbed it's free.....everything is free on a iphone....

$4.99 ain't nothing to Jbluntz! :lol:


I use MyWi which is a $19.99 app but I got it for free also.

Yeah it's free if you have the right sources like biteyourapple, I think it is, but if not it's $4.99, not everyone's a wiz at what all's available in a jailbroken iphone, ecspecially if you're still fairly new to iphone, like myself.

so dial up wasn't working out for you?

Who needs dialup when you have free tethering? my iphone is faster then my comcast cable but of course didn't find out about it until recently.

Something is wrong with this...

AT&T, Sprint and/or Verizon are not pulling down 20-40MBs like your standard cable modem should be doing. You'd be lucky to do just a couple MBs down on any iPhone.

No with my iphone pages load in a flash, 5 bars all the time, with comcast it's like 2-3 bars takes twice as long to load pages.

with cellphones it also depends how far are you from the nearest cell tower. i would think with those speeds you mr. jbluntz are right near one.

What do you mean, "comcast 2-3 bars"?