iPhone Personal Hotspot Only Supports Three Wi-Fi Devices

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Posted March 4, 2011 at 7:00pm by iClarified

Apple reveals that its Personal Hotspot feature for the iPhone 4 will only support three Wi-Fi devices. You can get an additional two devices if you use both Bluetooth and USB.

On the road, in an airport, at the park — now you can bring Wi-Fi with you wherever you go. Download iOS 4.3 on your iPhone 4, and the next time you find yourself without access to Wi-Fi but in 3G territory, enable Personal Hotspot and share your cellular data connection with your Mac, PC, iPad, or other Wi-Fi-capable device. You can share your connection with up to five devices at once over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and USB — with up to three of those connections using Wi-Fi. Every connection is password protected and secure. And it’s power friendly, too. iPhone detects when your Personal Hotspot is no longer in use and turns it off to save battery life.

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iPhone Personal Hotspot Only Supports Three Wi-Fi Devices

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NeHoMaR - March 5, 2011 at 11:52am

What IP this thing gives to the connected devices? I mean, is like a router or like a modem? as a router it gives generic IPs ending in 100, 101, .. and as modem it will give dinamic IPs directly from the ISP. The difference is one is unlimited and the other limited.

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Hiren Patel - March 4, 2011 at 8:32pm

MyWi!!!!!

Kenyandave - March 4, 2011 at 8:31pm

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MG - March 4, 2011 at 8:15pm

Does ATT charge extra for this?

Mr.D - March 4, 2011 at 8:28pm

Yes. A tethering plan is required. $45/mo for 4Gb with $10/gb for overages.

Mr.D - March 4, 2011 at 7:22pm

3 is more than enough. Why would someone ever need 5+?

dancj - March 4, 2011 at 7:37pm

Yeah. Trying to share a 3G connection with more than a couple of devices would be hopeless.

Jon - March 4, 2011 at 10:42pm

Apple please......let us decide.....once again!!!!!total control.....jailbrake+mywi= total freedom.......everybody else is 5 devices....apple....just 3.....WHY?????!? Sick!

PReaper - March 5, 2011 at 8:19am

With the quality of our 3G networks here in Sweden it won't be much of a problem.. Wish AT&T would put som effort into their network, their years behind many other countries.. I'm not posting this to spit at you americans or anything offensive and I apologize if I offend anyone with my comment.

Mr.D - March 5, 2011 at 11:19am

@Pain Reaper Do you realize that Sweden is the size of California and it's way easier and cheaper to get it all covered with 4G?

PReaper - March 5, 2011 at 3:43pm

@Mr.D That's true. But our 3G is better in average than your best 4G (pretty much).. Why doesn't AT&T expand their network with more connection points to ensure a better signal and a better coverage overall..? AT&T have a larger area to cover then our carriers (which also share antennas with one another so they all have the maximum amount of connection points) but AT&T have about a many antennas in the entire USA as we have in one town.. Why doesn't AT&T listen to the people and do something about it.. I know it's not as easy as my comments might make you believe I think it is but AT&T is pure pooh (according to what you hear and read about them from a LOT of their customers)..

PReaper - March 5, 2011 at 4:00pm

Not that it's all gold and shiny diamonds over here but with the prices AT&T have they should be able to increase the coverage and signal strength of their network..? I'm really just curious rather than "my country is better than yours" (every country has it's + and -).. And since I've never even been in the states all I have to go on is what I read online.. So once again, I'm not trying to be offensive or rude and apologize if it seams so.

iAgree - March 5, 2011 at 5:55pm

People don't realize this is a business, before there was smart phones people were connecting there laptops to data cards, but more and more people are getting smart phones and connecting the laptop to that, and because of this data card usage dropped. The unlimited plan or 2 gig data pro is for the phone only, tethering is a whole different option and should cost more. Just like a car comes with a radio but you want XM, you are not going to get that upgrade free, you have to pay for it. also everyone complained that ATT sucks and Verizon is better, but look at them now. as a business they only offered unlimited data to get customers, but are soon removing that feature, also you have to pay more to tether, so what you can tether 2 more devices than ATT... big deal!!! As iphone user said everyone is more concerned about specs, and this is ridiculous, but yet look how may products APPLE pushes out compared to android and others combined, they cant even keep up. oh and which platform get viruses on the phones, not apple, android, but for some reason everyone says its the best. now imagine this on a tablet....

ios 4.3 - March 5, 2011 at 5:57pm

actually you do have a choice. get rid of your phone and get the one that can tether 5 devices, which is stupid if you ask me