It's well known that the OS update to the iPhone includes the ability to use your phone for tethering your 3G connection to your PC or laptop. Sadly, AT&T doesn't want to give this feature away for free even though other smart phone will let you tether without having to update your service plan.

After one day of the release of the 3.0 update, a hack is available for your phone that will let you tether you connection. For free. For now.

The hack is so simple too. Just go to this address on your iPhone's browser, http://help.benm.at/help.php (thanks to TechCrunch.com for the original article) and in few clicks your all set to release the power of the 3G network.

Check out the video for proof

(Sorry for the poor audio and low light of the video)

But don't get too excited. It isn't outside of the world of posibility that AT&T will catch on to the hack and put a stop to it somehow. But as of this writing it's working just fine.

Enjoy it while you can!

Update on Friday, August 21, 2009 at 02:06PM by teh Staff

A few months later and the tethering is still working.