An app that turns your iPhone into a wireless modem for internet access on your laptop or desktop, allowing you to tether your iPhone's cellular data connection over USB or WiFi.
iPhoneModem is an app developed by Junipher Chen that enables tethering on jailbroken iPhones. It allows you to use your iPhone's cellular data connection to get internet access on your laptop, desktop computer, or other devices when you don't have access to a regular broadband or WiFi connection.
By installing iPhoneModem on a jailbroken iPhone, you can share your phone's mobile data plan via USB or over WiFi. This essentially turns your iPhone into a wireless modem or hotspot to provide internet connectivity to other devices. The app works by rerouting network traffic through the iPhone's cellular connection.
Some key features of iPhoneModem include:
Overall, iPhoneModem provides an easy way to utilize the iPhone's connectivity as a mobile broadband modem replacement for other devices. It saves having to pay for a separate mobile hotspot hardware and data plan in situations where you only need occasional tethering. As with any cellular data usage, users need to be cognizant of data caps or throttling on their mobile plans when using heavy bandwidth applications or downloads over an iPhoneModem connection.
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