tether as wifi hotspot

Thanks for the suggestion, we've talked about potentially adding this feature to Wifi enabled phones. We're not entirely sure if it's possible...

This is posible. I have seen a program out there that uses the Cell ntwork of the phone, either GPRS, Edge, 3G, or CDMA and uses the wifi to create an AP. I have never tried it, since my storm does not have wifi.

I have also stumpled across one taht uses PAN ( Personal Area Network) profile of the bluetooth, I do not know how many devices can connect on this PAN profile since I have no use, I have never tried it.

I would be happy with this if it worked with multiple connected bluetooth devices.

I would much rather see it use WiFi, even though I dont have wifi, but idealy to have both meathods, assuming that PAN supports multiple device connections.

If that fails, just connect it through bluetooth to your notebook, and share the network interface to your WiFi, after all, you need at least one notebook on, why else would you need internet then? :-)

Perhaps a option on the desktop app that uses the wifi to share to, but can be stopped quickly, instead of like in wondows where you have to go through the network properties and disable, or enable and reboot, and the headaches associated like that.

I'm up for that!

But I REALLY want BES/MDS server network access. Is it possible in the future to have the BB app distinguish if the IP address that is being requested is in your private network range, so the data is not routed over to the proxy server.

eg: My lan is 10.10.10.X, in options of BB app, set "My BES Network Range: 10.10.10.X mask 255.255.255.0" and any requests that are sent from the notebook for that IP range would be redirected through just over the BES/MDS connection, instead of tunneled to the Proxy server? I dont think it is that hard, since most apps can manually choose DIRECT/BIS, or BES/MDS.
Is there a way to change that in application permissions to disallow BIS, and the app will find the next available connection method?

Application settings such as " Server Network" Might Be BES Network? and" Internet" might be BIS connection?

Would be very nice to do this!!!!

I really believe that this would be the ultimate tether solution. I personally like to have less wires and this would be great. It would also allow me to connect my iPod Touch and other devices to my Blackberry.

Thanks for the feedback guys, this is what we are thinking as a possible solution for the iPod Touch solution.

A possible solution for wifi hotspot.
First off, I'd like like to thank Tether for their great piece of software. Here's what I do to create my own wifi hotspot and it is very simple. First, I configure Tether to allow sharing over a wireless connection. I then connect using Tether on a Vista PC, which gives me internet access on that PC, next I create an Ad Hoc network. Once you have created the Ad Hoc network, connect to it and the Tether connection will be available to any wireless device. I have had 4 PC's and an ipod touch connected simultaneously sharing the Tether connection, all with internet access. This is just one of the beauties that Tether has to offer.

I agree! The point of this is I start ONE piece of software, Tether on my BB and then everything within WIFI distance sees a secured WIFI network named *yourname*_BB

Not only is the fact that this will work wirelessly and for multiple devices, but i dont have to start another piece of software on the other end to complete the connection.... its being done natively

That's providing a superior customer experience and complete ease of use, start the program... the one and only step!

I agree it's a great idea. Please create something if possible. I don't wanna switch from Tether!

I agree this would be a great feature and would be the answer to the iPod Touch suggestion.
A Wifi enabled Blackberry broadcasting as a wirelss hub would ROCK!

Anything new on the bb wifi hotspot?

The BlackBerry OS will actually not allow the Tether hardware to become a Wifi hotspot.

Hardware or a application will need to be created for this to work.

Will Tether work with the new Blackberry 7 OS ?

I just got the new Bold 9930 and was wondering if Tether could take advantage of the built-in mobile hotspot feature. I would love to not have to pay Verizon $20/mo to use this feature. Is it possible?