Tethering has been my lifeline to the outside world while at the fire station for 24 hours at a time. There are spotty wireless networks here and there but you have to be sitting outside to get decent signal. I had signed up for an ATT data card but when I started tethering my iPhone, I decided to pay the early termination fee and cancel the service. ATT eventually talked me into making it a family plan line for $9/month and credited me $50 all so I wouldn’t cancel the contract. Whatever, it saved me $60/month for 11 months.
So I’m tethering like a madman and this iPhone version 3.1 business comes out and there’s no way I’m going to upgrade and lose tethering just for some genius functions. I’m listening to suggestions but for the time being I’m just going to wait for help.benm.at to come up with a patch. I don’t want to go crazy. Good luck Ben.