Hey all,

I posted some of this in another thread, but I just wanted to fill in more info and let people know that there is a new version (Release Candidate 2, build 3150) of Parallels with full USB 2.0 support. I was able to set up tethering on my sprint 8703 using the Sprint Connection Manager, and have had good results.

I have not tried to pump that connection back to OSX, though I know it's supposed to be possible.

It's not a complete solution, and it doesn't compare to a native OSX solution, but heck, I'm willing to bet that a decent number of people have an unused copy of XP at their disposal. If so, the $79 for Parallels i cheaper than the $50+$40 for the proxy solution (which I highly doubt will ever let me on my work VPN). Worst case scenario, you can probably get an OEM version of XP home for ~$80.

If anyone has any info on how to share the XP connection back with OS X in parallels, please let us know. If I figure it out, I'll do the same.

Paul