topic Re: Iphone hotspot in Apple

Iphone hotspot

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:32:49 GMT

I have an Iphone 4 with IOS7 and I can't enable my hotspot. When I try turning it on from setting it sends me to a this website, without any actual help.

Re: Iphone hotspot

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:34:02 GMT

You may need to ring o2 on 202 to set it up.

Tethering is for pay monthly customers only.

Re: Iphone hotspot

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:34:23 GMT

I have unlimited internet on my phone, so that shouldn't be an issue.

Re: Iphone hotspot

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:37:36 GMT

I am a pay monthly customer. And I have unlimited internet. I did however, registered trough giffgaff. May that be an isssue?

Re: Iphone hotspot

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:37:39 GMT

Look here

http://service.o2.co.uk/IQ/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?New,Kb=Companion,question=ref(User):str(Mobile),T=guruCase,VARSET_COBJID=11820,Problem=Obj(11820)

Are you on an old legacy o2 tariff ?

You will probably have to ring 02 on 202 to set it up.

Re: Iphone hotspot

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:40:04 GMT

Giffgaff is a stand alone network that is a virtual network on the o2 network.

Re: Iphone hotspot

adamtemp64 — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:43:47 GMT

ask on the giffgaff community then this has nothing to do with o2

And for clarity if it is an old o2 unlimited data tariff you cannot enable tethering only new limited monthly tariffs can enable tethering on o2

Re: Iphone hotspot

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:40:41 GMT

As far as I'm aware they don't allow tethering in some goody bags.

Re: Iphone hotspot

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:46:03 GMT

Raluca if You need any further assistance don't hesitate to ask.

It doesn't matter what network your on I'm here to help where I can.

Re: Iphone hotspot

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:46:14 GMT

Yeah if you are with GiffGaff altho they run on O2's network (and are owned by the same parent company) they are not the same.

They do not support tethering.

There are unofficial way's of doing it, but on an iPhone that requires a jailbreak and also GiffGaff may smack your hands

Re: Iphone hotspot

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:48:27 GMT

If Giffgaff see a spike in your internet usage from using a jail break tweak they will shut down your usage and put you on a timeout style ban.

Re: Iphone hotspot

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:52:14 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
If Giffgaff see a spike in your internet usage from using a jail break tweak they will shut down your usage and put you on a timeout style ban.

Indeed, even without a spike in usage they can tell by simple things such as browser version in their logs, safari for iPad, IE for windows etc....obvious giveaway

Re: Iphone hotspot

aldaweb — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 17:05:21 GMT

1980b wrote:

Yeah if you are with GiffGaff altho they run on O2's network (and are owned by the same parent company) they are not the same.

They do not support tethering.

Not entirely true.

If you get the £10 goodybag with 1GB data included then you can tether but not with any of the unlimited data plans, though it does say it doesn't work with the iPhone so the OP is out of luck.

From http://giffgaff.com/goodybags/10pound-goodybag.html

Tethering is permitted on £10 goodybag and will work on all smartphones with an inbuilt tethering feature, except for the iPhone and BlackBerry.

Re: Iphone hotspot

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 17:14:57 GMT

@aldaweb wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
Yeah if you are with GiffGaff altho they run on O2's network (and are owned by the same parent company) they are not the same.

They do not support tethering.

Not entirely true.
If you get the £10 goodybag with 1GB data included then you can tether but not with any of the unlimited data plans, though it does say it doesn't work with the iPhone so the OP is out of luck.

From http://giffgaff.com/goodybags/10pound-goodybag.html
Tethering is permitted on £10 goodybag and will work on all smartphones with an inbuilt tethering feature, except for the iPhone and BlackBerry.

Yeah, however the op is talking about their unlimited giffgaff option on an iphone so they do not support tethering.

Re: Iphone hotspot

aldaweb — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 17:26:53 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@aldaweb wrote:
Not entirely true.
If you get the £10 goodybag with 1GB data included then you can tether but not with any of the unlimited data plans, though it does say it doesn't work with the iPhone so the OP is out of luck.

Yeah, however the op is talking about their unlimited giffgaff option on an iphone so they do not support tethering.

Which I believe I pointed out (bold text)

Re: Iphone hotspot

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 17:35:12 GMT

@aldaweb wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@aldaweb wrote:
Not entirely true.
If you get the £10 goodybag with 1GB data included then you can tether but not with any of the unlimited data plans, though it does say it doesn't work with the iPhone so the OP is out of luck.

Yeah, however the op is talking about their unlimited giffgaff option on an iphone so they do not support tethering.
Which I believe I pointed out (bold text)

Damn I need an espresso....brain isn't working!

lol!