MyTether Beta gets new bells and whistles!

I'd like to start out by saying that I've followed Aonic since day one on his MyTether project and was even the very first one to donate to him back in July of 09 or so, and am very pleased to see how far he has taken it since then.  When webOS 1.3.1 came out, it broke his Wifi tethering method and he stayed up 13 straight hours that night working on a fix.  Because they removed certain aspects of his ad-hoc methods, he was stuck providing us with a patch which gave us Wifi but compromised the use of the camera app to do so.  This had many MyTether donators disappointed but we knew it was better than nothing.  Then Mobile HotSpot came along on the new Verizon Pre and soon was hacked to work on Sprint.  This required no camera patching and just worked as a nice access point for up to 5 devices simultaneously.  After playing with Mobile Hotspot myself, I sent a tweet to Aonic saying, how about a new version that doesn't require patching since MHS can do it.  I doubt it was due to my tweet but next day, he tweeted he was working on a new beta and he's gone nuts on it since then!  I'd like to highlight some of his recent work for you and tell you why I choose MyTether over Mobile HotSpot.  Look for more of it after the break!

So to start out, Aonic made Wifi work again in the same manner that MHS does so.  His also allows up to 5 clients to connect simultaneously.  You can setup your own SSID name and your own password of 8+ characters.  Once this was in place, he added the same "Connected Devices" to show who all is connected just like MHS does.  He set it to only refresh the list every 60 seconds to prolong battery life. It works out great.  Now a feature that I'd requested since the very beginning to be on par with tethering apps I'd used on my Treo 755P such as PDANet, I wanted some sort of bandwidth count to show how much data I used on my phone while tethering.  Aonic started taking requests after the connected devices list and I reminded him of this.  He jumped right on it and even took it to a level beyond what I was hoping for.  He added bandwidth graphs like you see in the first 2 screenshots that post a new bar every 10 seconds showing how much download and upload you are using in Kilobytes.  He then averages out these 10 second intervals and calculates the total bandwidth you've used (up and down) and displays it nicely below the graph.  The result is very impressive.  Mobile HotSpot sure doesn't have anything like this to brag about.  Aonic has since added this graphing and totals to his USB option as well.  More areas MHS lack, no USB or Bluetooth tethering!  MyTether offers Wifi, USB and Bluetooth.  You choose whatever works best for you.  The speeds have been great!  On Wifi, I tend to get about 1.3-5mbit download and about 300-400k upload.

Another feature he has added that some may find useful is the ability to disconnect any connected client that you might not want.  As you see in the screenshot to the left, you can simply swipe your finger to the right over a client in the connected list and you are given the option to delete as you are familiar with in webOS.  This drops their IP.  The current release  is still in Beta form but very close to full release.  The Beta is available to all donators.  The donating price is set at $14.95 and you have access to all future releases.  He has told me he will fix MyTether anytime a webOS update breaks it.  His recent features alone are worth the price!  You cannot purchase this from the App Catalog or even download it in Preware or WOSQI.  He has created his own installer for it and you put your phone into Developer mode and then install.  I have been playing around with every Beta he has released since the camera compromising version and it has been exciting to see the progress!  If you are at all interested in picking up MyTether for yourself, hop on over to http://mytether.net/ and donate!  He'll send you access to his donators only forum and the link to his Beta installer which will soon be full version.  You can also follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/MyTether.  Thanks for the hard work, Aonic!