You can find several articles that describes “How to use iPhone Internet on your PC/Mac”, in this post you will find how to connect your iPhone to the internet using your home Internet connection (ADSL, Dial Up, etc). The following instructions assume you have a laptop or PC/Mac with a wireless network card. You do not need to have a wireless router/network as we will be creating our own ad-hoc network to establish a link between the PC/Mac and iPhone.

These instructions may not work correctly if your iPhone running on OS ver 1.1.4 ; Please upgrade to 2.x !!

First Configuring PC

1. Open “Network and Sharing Center” (Windows Vista)
2. Select “Manage Wireless networks”
3. Click on the “Add” button
4. Select “Create an ad hoc connection”
5. Click “Next”
6. Enter name for the new Connection (Example: iPhone Wi-Fi)
7. Select Security type (WEP or Open)
8. Set a password (If WEP selected)
9. Check “Save this network” then Click “Next”
10. Ignore anything like this “Enable Internet connection sharing…” **
11. Close the appearing window
12. Open “Network and Sharing Center” (Windows Vista)
13. Select “Manage network connections”
14. Select both wireless connection and Local area connection (that you have Internet on it!!!)
15. Right Click on one of them then select “Bridge Connections”
16. Wait for windows to complete the Bridging possess

** If your computer connected to the Internet using PPPoE let’s windows Share the internet connection. (This may not work correctly!)

On your Mac

1. Create a ad-hoc connection! (It’s depend on the hardware that you use!)
2. Open Settings
3. Click on sharing button
4. Select Internet connection sharing
5. Check both the iPhone connection and Internet connection (Ehternet0 , Ethernet1, etc)

Now Setting up the iPhone

1. Power on iPhone!
2. Open Settings
3. Select Wi-Fi
4. Turn on Wi-Fi
5. Now you must see the name of your ad-hoc connection that created in previous steps!
6. Simply Click on the name of connection
7. iPhone will automatically join the network (You must enter your password if any)
8. Click on the blue button on the right side of the connection name
9. Scroll down then Click Renew leases
10. Now you must see the correct settings of IP-Address, Default gateway, etc!
11. Navigate to home screen
12. Open safari and enjoy surfing web!

Without DHCP server! (Just for PC; I haven’t any idea for Mac users!)

1. Create an ad-hoc connection on your PC.
2. Open “Network and Sharing Center” (Windows Vista)
3. Select “Manage network connections”
4. Right Click on wireless connection then click properties
5. In General Tab select Internet Protocol version 4 (TCP/IP ver 4) and click the Properties button
6. Select “Use the Following IP Address” and enter 192.168.0.1 in the IP Address field
7. Enter 255.255.255.0 as Subnet Mask field
8. Leave the remaining fields blank, and click the OK button
9. [UPDATE]
10. Download CCproxy.exe (google it)
11. run CCproxy  (ver 6.61)
12. click on advance button
13. go to networks tab
14. select your computer IP address
15. then select ok.

Dial-up Connection

Note: Dial-up Connection is too slow for using on the iPhone!

1. Create an ad-hoc connection as before
2. Open the properties of your Dial-up Connection
3. In Sharing Tab select allow other network users …

Now on the iPhone

1. Turn On Wi-Fi
2. Now you will see the ad-hoc connection that you created in previous steps! (Example: iPhone WiFi)
3. Click on the blue button in the front of the Connection name
4. Select [Static] button and enter 192.168.0.2 in the Address field (Remember that the first three numbers must be same as the PC configuration, 4th number is anything between 2 & 255)
5. Enter 255.255.255.0 (Same as the PC configuration) in the Subnet Mask field
6. Scroll down the settings page and select the Manual button for HTTP Proxy
7. [UPDATE]Enter 192.168.0.1 (you PC IP address) in the Server field and 808  in the Port field
8. Tap the Wi-Fi Networks button at the top and select the new iPhone connection to join

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