iPod Touch Networking Without Wifi

I'm in a wifi-less office. It's a no go.

Is there a way I can connect my iPod Touch to my network with out using wifi. Perhaps using my workstation as a proxy (without having to resort to the wireless card in it - also a no go).

Yes, I know the argument - "Just use the internet on your workstation". But there's other tool's I want to use on the iPod Touch that use the internet that aren't a web browser or e-mail client.

Solution 1:

If you jailbreak your iPod, you can install OpenSSH and use it to tunnel your connection over USB/iTunes.

For info on jailbreaking: http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

For info on tunneling via SSH: http://alk2blog.blogspot.com/2008/08/ssh-to-get-your-iphone-online-via-usb.html

To address comments:

1) There is no reason you can't set up the proxy server for the WiFi interface. Just find the interface that is enabled (there should only be one in this case)

2) This hack does work with 3.x firmware and iTunes 9. (note the exceptions of phones/ipods that cannot be jailbroken yet)