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Root I rooted!!! Is there a free wireless tether app?

Not sure if this is what your looking for. And I'm not sure if this will work on a rooted phone.
Go to the Android Market and get Quick settings app.
Open it and click on your phones menu button normally next to the home button. Select customize. At next screen find wifi hotspot in the list. Put finger on gray lines to right of words, after a second you can drag that function up to the top of the screen.
Back out of that screen and then turn wifi hotspot on.
My phone is not rooted, this app works great on my phone.
 
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That's what I was just about to post! :)

I'm trying out this one right now..

Working for me, but no Access Control. Getting about 1.25Mb/s D, and .29Mb/s U from computer tethered to phone. That's consistent with tested phone speeds as well (San Rafael, CA.)

But I was really uneasy with the level of information access the app required. Can anyone can confirm it is trust worthy?

thanks,
jb
 
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Actually, I found this how-to over at the Atrix Forums which doesn't even require a root!!

I have personally tried this and it works flawlessly! :D

Thank you for the link! Brilliant and it just worked perfectly. Now, Im going to post the settings because I want to ask a question about them:

Name: AT&T
APN: wap.cingular
Proxy: leave blank
Port: 80
Username:WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
Password:CINGULAR1
Server: leave blank
MMSC: http://mmsc.cingular.com
MMS Proxy: wireless.cingular.com
MMS Port: 80
MCC:310
MNC:410
Authentication Type: leave blank
APN Type: leave blank

Do you think if we leave the "Name" blank, will that keep the AT&T from showing up at the top of the notification bar?
 
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