sonicwind
08-16-2008, 06:44 PM
So I finally tried tethering 3G to my Macbook. It works pretty good. The speed in Firefox was very good even with only 1 bar showing on 3G.
I noticed some things, though.
1. I had read that others saw that the proxy continued to work even when the phone went into standby. It wasn't working for me, though. It seemed that it stopped working after standby, and that to get it working again, I had to bring it out of standby and also load a page in Safari on the phone to get it connected again. Is this what other people were seeing?
2. I also noticed that certain connections (in FireFox) didn't work. I was trying to watch a blogtv video stream and neither the chat applet or the video applet would start. I'm assuming those were both Flash based.
3. I also tried just setting the socks proxy in Mac network settings. This did work for using Safari, but the blogtv still didn't work. Also, Safari seemed a lot slower in rendering pages than FireFox. This could have been due to momentary fluctuations in the iPhone connectivity, but I was wondering if anyone else has seen anything similar.
All in all, it worked really well and over an apparently bad connection. I can browse reasonably fast in Firefox, load GMail and YouTube.
I noticed some things, though.
1. I had read that others saw that the proxy continued to work even when the phone went into standby. It wasn't working for me, though. It seemed that it stopped working after standby, and that to get it working again, I had to bring it out of standby and also load a page in Safari on the phone to get it connected again. Is this what other people were seeing?
2. I also noticed that certain connections (in FireFox) didn't work. I was trying to watch a blogtv video stream and neither the chat applet or the video applet would start. I'm assuming those were both Flash based.
3. I also tried just setting the socks proxy in Mac network settings. This did work for using Safari, but the blogtv still didn't work. Also, Safari seemed a lot slower in rendering pages than FireFox. This could have been due to momentary fluctuations in the iPhone connectivity, but I was wondering if anyone else has seen anything similar.
All in all, it worked really well and over an apparently bad connection. I can browse reasonably fast in Firefox, load GMail and YouTube.