Effective Tips to Tether Smartphones - Android, iPhone and Blackberry

Tethering is a feature that allows smartphones to be connected to computers or other devices. You can
do much more than merely chatting, emailing and messaging by putting your phone in a role of mobile hotspot meant for providing web connectivity to computers, tabs and other devices.
With the use of the tethering feature, these smartphones get connected to a mobile data network and thereafter users can use the smartphone as a Wi-Fi router assigning it the role of distributing bandwidths. In simple language tethering enables users to use their smartphones as a modem for computers. Tethering of smartphones is particularly useful at such places where Wi-Fi connectivity is not available or you want to access the internet via your computer in emergency.
You need to adopt different ways for tethering different smartphones. Below mentioned is the step-by-step guideline for tethering popular smartphones such as Blackberry, Android phone or iPhone.
iPhone tethering
It is quite simpler to tether an iPhone as compared to other smartphones. By following some simple steps mentioned below you can easily tether your phone to the computer.
First of all tap on the Menu
Now go to Settings and select General
Now go the €Network' and tap it
Finally activate tethering by tapping on Internet tethering
Now, you can connect your iPhone to the computer via USB port and start using the phone as a dongle.
Android tethering
The brand or make of the Android smartphones has nothing to do with the process of tethering as all the Android devices access the same app marketplace to get tethering apps. The two tethering apps that are used most are PdaNet and Easytether.
First of all the user needs to download either of the apps from the Android market and install on the smartphone. Once the installation is complete, you need to make certain configurations to enable the device to communicate with the computer.
Remember, one part of the app will be installed on the smartphone and another on the computer. Thereafter, you need to perform following steps on your Android smartphone.
First of all tap on Menu to select Settings
In Settings select Applications
Now select Development
Make sure to check the box named as USB Debugging
Now finally click Ok
Once you complete these steps, direct streaming of data from the Android smartphone to the computer will begin. If you are using the PdaNet app, then you can also send and receive text messages directly on your computer.
Now coming to the apps installed on the computer. You may set the app on the computer to connect automatically once you connect the phone to the computer via the USB port. But before doing this you must activate the apps on the smartphone first.
Blackberry tethering
Like Android smartphones, Blackberry too requires the installation of dedicated tethering app, if you want to access the internet on your computer by using your Blackberry device. To execute the tethering you first need to install BlackBerry Desktop Software 5.0.1 following by setting up of the access point name.
After the access point is set up, users require configuring the dial-up networking. Once you connect your Blackberry smartphone to the computer perform the following steps to complete the tethering.
First of all open the Desktop Manager
Now click Start and go to the Control Panel
Now select Network Connections
Here you would find a new connection which needs to be renamed as per your choice
Now click Dial
The tethering of your Blackberry smartphone to the computer will be completed within the next few moments.
By using the above discussed tips, users can easily tether their devices to connect to the internet wirelessly from the computer and that without paying the excessive tethering charges to the carriers. Exploiting the tethering technique you can also even setup your own hotspot that would allow you to connect several devices simultaneousl