Making my Blackberry into a hotspot for iPod Touch

What model blackberry?

The keyword you're looking for is 'tethering.'

Cycloptichorn

Tethering, thanks.

Bold 9650.

Looks like you may have to contact the phone company and get a plan to do so with the blackberry. Without paying them for the privilege, you may be violating your usage agreement if you tether it to a computer.

Tethering doesn't always work as a hotspot, by the way. Some phones can only hook up to a single computer via bluetooth, and have to have special software on the computer to make it work. I'll keep looking into it.

Cycloptichorn

My brother found a plan for his iPhone for around $20/mo. for 2G data. We were all together for the week of the 4th in an area of no wifi, but were all able to tether off his phone using our PCs, Macs and iPods. Very cool.

2 gigs of data? Man, you can blow through that in a cold second these days, haha

Cycloptichorn

Yeah, might be off a little on that info lol. I remember he told us that he had trouble using it all on from month to month, so maybe it was more. What I appreciated is that there was no hassle whatsoever...just turn on the laptop and voila -- instant wifi.

What Cyclo said.

My wife has a Blackberry 9780. To use it as a modem it has to be tethered via USB cable, and the computer has to have Blackberrry Desktop installed. I doubt that there's an app for the iPod for that.

OK, thanks, I'll contact them and see what I can come up with. I'm willing to pay extra short-term to have this option.

Not sure if there will be any computers there at all, though, is that necessary? Or is there a way to do it off the Blackberry alone?

https://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/5022/

May work. I downloaded a free tethering app for my android when our internet was down after that storm, but it wasn't great.