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I want to use my computer's net connection for my iPod Touch via USB cable.

Creating a wireless AP is not an option as I do not want to setup an AP.

iPod Touch - IOS5.x Computer - Win7

Bonus - OSX option as well

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possible duplicate of Share iPhone WIFI with computer over USB? – Matt Love Mar 1 '12 at 1:40
I wouldn't say its a duplicate. It's the complete opposite to the one you have listed above. He doesn't want to use his ipod as a wifi adaptor. – Lyken Mar 1 '12 at 2:33
He does want to use the iPhone as WiFi access point and connect via USB. And you want to use (wired) network form the PC/MAC over USB on the iPod touch - right ? – iolsmit Mar 1 '12 at 2:45
I want to use my computers internet. The iPod Touch has no internet access at all over wifi, let say there's no wifi access points and no wifi chips on the computer (no plugging in a usb wifi device into the computer as an option). – Kvad Mar 1 '12 at 4:35

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Apparently this is possible, if your iPhone is jailbroken:

(update: this does not seem to work for iPod touch, iPads without 3g etc. - because they lack the "second network card" interface)

can i get it on my ipod touch...? Unfortunately, not. ipod touch doesn't have gprs/edge network interface to redirect it to the proxy.

Follow this lengthy procedure (note that it's originally for iOS 2.x, using a Windows PC):

SSH to get your iphone online via USB cable

We will connect it to the Internet-connected PC via standard USB cable and get the iphone online in this passthru, reverse mode. Without wifi, without GPRS/EDGE fee to GSM operator. Incredible, impossible? Read further...

  • On the PC you will need: Bitvise Tunnelier, itunnel
  • And on the iPhone/iPad3G: OpenSSH and a proxy-setting file

Alternatively you could try this procedure by dy2k (again only for iDevices supporting Internet Tethering) :

Reverse Tethering iPhone 3G/3Gs using USB

Step 1: Set up internet tethering on your iPhone.

Step 2: Plug you iPhone into your PC using the provided USB cable.

Step 3: Go to Settings>General>Network>Internet Tethering and switch it to "On." Then it will prompt you for bluetooth or USB, select USB

Step 4: Go to network connections and you should see your LAN connection and a new connection that says "Apple Mobile Device Ethernet." Simply highlight both connections, right click on one and select "Bridge."

You will now be using your PC's internet connection on your iPhone! It works for Cydia App store, Facebook, Safari, ect ect.

Note: After terminating the connection you must delete the bridge and make a new one when you re-connect.

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From all my research your request is not possible. Only wireless via internet sharing on your windows 7 machine or the mac.

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The iOS software does not look to receive network traffic in from the 30 pin connector, so a major amount of jailbreak work would be needed to accomplish this assuming the hardware has the channels to support "backwards flow" of networking.

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It is possible on the iPhone as it can do internet sharing via USB cable - you then setup a bridge. There is no internet sharing option on the iPod Touch so I can't do that. I don't mind jailbreaking so that is an option. – Kvad Mar 1 '12 at 4:37
The direction in which the flow of internet sharing is one way at present. Phone shares Internet to a computer in a one way relationship. It's like you are asking if a printer can print to a Mac via USB. The direction is wrong in both instances. – bmike♦ Mar 1 '12 at 13:30

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