IF you can get Kies to load, tethering is still offered in it, the providers are the blame for the option being taken away, install kies in your laptop, good luck if you are running windowz 7 as I have not got it to go once. XP service pack 3 works pretty well, minus the APPS icon on the dock that tells me that it is not yet available in the U.S. I finally got this to work by wiping everything from priors installed, I did NOT download drivers from anywhere as I think this was a big part of all past problems. After it was all installed, set phone usb mode to kies, plugged into PC, it downloaded the drivers automatically, and worked great. Only ERROR I got was from checking for a firmware update, although I had already gotten my OTA.