Posting this from the Go Train in Union Station. Im surfing on my MacBook Pro via my tethered 3GS, AND calling to check my account balance on 3G as well! The twelve days of Christmas have truely started early this year!

Yay! on 3g and can make outgoing calls in downtown Toronto!

Tethering to a laptop is no different than using the data directly on the phone. I suppose that the size of a laptop screen makes a page easier to read, and thus you can read more pages, but nothing dramatic.

Where tethering becomes dangerous is when you use an app like MyWi (what I use) and turn your phone in to a wireless hotspot. Its fine to do it and use it for your laptop, but if you were to enable it at home and hook multiple computers/phones/ipads/etc. to it, you might find yourself in a bit of trouble.

The good thing about Speakout's data network is that it requires a proxy to use. So, on the train anybody can see my network which isn't password protected, but they wouldn't be able to make use of it without knowing what proxy settings to enter. (of course I could just as easily assign it a password as well )

I'd heard of that issue before, but currently 611 is working fine on my 3gs under 3G,

I setup an iphone 3G for my wife, which is currently working on SpeakOut with 3G data.

This phone was originally locked to Fido. I upgraded to firmware 4.2.1 and then jailbroke to get baseband 6.15.00 and unlocked with ultrasnow.

Voice, text and data all work on 3G.

Is your phone jail broken?

Vaderhead said:

Thanks for your reply.

No my phone isn't jail broken. I got the impression that if your iphone was a Rogers phone (not Fido) that jail braking was not required.

I guess that's the next thing for me to try though. This is my first iphone and I'm a bit green to be honest with GSM. I've recently rid myself of Windows phones and 8 years of Bell.

Have you tried a "Hard Reset" on the phone? Press and hold the power & home buttons. Continue doing this until you see the white apple startup logo, ignore the power off slider.

If that doesn't work, try switching the 3G to ON. 3G works now and you could just be in an area that has bad 2G coverage.

Let us know how it goes!

Well I don't know how to explain this then.

I've done several hard resets and no matter what I try I still cannot connect to a single website or use a single app.

I called customer service, things looked fine from their end, they reset the data and I did several more hard resets to no avail.

I made my settings EXACTLY the same as instructed and still cannot connect. Same error with the 3G enabled or not. With either network Safari just hangs. What you can see is that the address bar "flashes blue" and then it just hangs. I'm in Vancouver, BC.

I have no idea what to try now.

Have you tried a different profile? There are 3 of them. Shouldn't make a difference but you never know.

-Also, are you in downtown Vancouver? I know that in downtown Toronto in the financial core, service would crap out during the day due to network congestion. Try it in the off hours maybe?

-How many bars are you showing?

-When you turned 3G on, were you able to make calls?

here are all three profiles…

Apn: goam.com
Username: wapuser1
Password: wap
Proxy IP: 208.200.067.150
Port: 80

Apn: goam.com
Username: wapuser1
Password: wap
Proxy IP: 172.025.000.107
Port: 80

Apn: goam.com
Username: wapuser1
Password: wap
Proxy IP: 10.128.1.69
Port: 80

You can only have one on your phone, but you can create and save all three with the utility. Once you do that, delete the one on your phone and install a different one. Just be careful when entering, and make sure you get the password right (no caps lock).

Jailbreaking won't do anything, your phone is Rogers already. Voice works, so that won't do anything.

Here's what I'd do next…

- plug in to itunes
- restore to factory
- when the option comes up, set up as new iPhone
- install the Speakout profile.