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A few days ago, our DSL modem gave up and stopped synching. It started intermittently but eventually it stopped working altogether. One phone call later, I had to find a replacement solution to play Battle Field: Bad Company 2 – Vietnam (by the way, what’s with the ranking servers lately? Can’t seem to get my proper rank displayed on more than 50% of the games…).

Equipment:

- iPhone 3GS with unlimited data plan
- USB-dock cable
- a Mac computer with Wifi running (Snow) Leopard

On the iPhone, under System Preferences, Network, Internet Tethering, turn the switch to on. If it asks you, USB only is fine. Using 3G and Bluetooth would drain your battery way too fast. Connect the iPhone to your Mac and wait for iTunes to be done synchronizing the phone (it seems every time you restart iTunes — for an update for instance — the phone will interrupt the Tethering).

Open the Mac’s System Preferences. Under Network, find the “iPhone USB” connection and verify you have an IP address there (by default something like 172.10.20.2).

Now verify that you have Internet on your Mac. Still in System Preferences, under Network, Airport, connect to a new network. Give it some name. By default, it will have the hostname of your computer and have no security. You should probably change this to avoid your neighbors stealing your already limited bandwidth. Then under advanced, TCP/IP, give yourself a manual IP address (192.168.1.1, netmask 255.255.255.0, router 192.168.1.1) as shown below.

Finally, and still in System Preferences, under Sharing, Internet sharing, select Share your connection from “iPhone USB” and To computers using “AirPort” and in AirPort Options, select your newly created SSID. Then enable Internet sharing.

Now on the Playstation 3, go under Settings, Network settings. Pass on the message and select the Custom way. Pick wireless, enter manually the name of your computer in the SSID name field or scan for it. Enter the security settings for the connection if you need any. Then for the IP address settings, select manual and enter an IP of 192.168.1.x (1<x<255), netmask 255.255.255.0 and your router IP is 192.168.1.1 (the computer with the iPhone tethering). You can keep the other parameters to their default values in the next screens, except the DNS settings. You can use 8.8.8.8 (Google’s own DNS server) or whichever DNS server your ISP recommends.  You can also refer to the online guide from Sony which is quite detailed.

If you have further devices to connect, go ahead. We are running an iPad, an iPod, a laptop and a PS3 here all with success. Also, I had no need to use static IP addresses on other devices. Just on the PS3 we had to give a manual IP address for some reason.

PS: a big thanks to the WordPress app for iPad which allowed me to type the entire twice because it’s unable to synchronize properly the draft. Thanks…

Voilà plus de 30 interprétations et instrumentations différentes de la fameuse musique de Mario ! De la flûte traversière à l’orgue en passant par la fanfare ! Avec toujours la fameuse vidéo du Japonais qui le joue au piano les yeux bandés ! Pour les instruments les moins courants, un clic sur le nom vous envoie sur la page Wikipedia associée !

Flûte traversière :

Balalaïka :

Erhu :

Avec les mains :

A l’accordéon :

A capella par un chœur mixte :

Quatuor de clarinettes :

Guitare électrique :

Deux guitares électriques :

Guitare à neuf cordes :

Guitare à onze cordes :

Version Drums & Bass :

Version rock :

Piano à quatre mains :

Piano les yeux bandés !

Saxophone :

Marimbas :

Orgue d’église :

Au violoncelle :

Ukulélé :

À la mandoline :

Avec la gorge :

Avec la bouche :

Au clarillon :

Au saxhorn :

Au tuba :

Au trombone :

Sur un clavier Electone :

Par une fanfare :

Beatbox :

Avec une règle en plastique :

Bonus

Spectacle à l’école :

Reprise personnelle de l’OST de Super Mario World