[AusNOG] 'X' carrier tethering on iPhone v3.0

[Alastair Watts]

On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 13:30 +1000, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:

> > And out of curiosity.. - has anyone using GPRS-only devices (aka
> > non-3g, like my XDA IIs) stopped being able to get a data connection
> > up since 3.0 went live?  I haven't been able to get a GPRS
> > connection up on my XDA for two days now..
> 
> Ahh, answering my own question, they appear to have turned off the
> 'internet' APN on mobile phone connections - has to be yesinternet
> now.. (I've always just used 'internet', so I can swap sims between
> various devices and not worry about which sim is a phone sim and which
> is data, if i needed data in a hurry somewhere.. Apart from needing to
> use a different APN on the prepaid internet sims, Optus have always
> been pretty lax in what APN you connect to to get to the internet..
>  Maybe people tethering their Iphones has made them secure things up a
> bit.. :)

Maybe this explains someone's earlier post regarding tethering failing
when roaming to GSM? Perhaps tethering was set up with 'internet' APN
instead of 'yesinternet', like the address Mark sent through earlier
does?

Al