I'm looking to get my xda2 networked with my pc some how, so I can share my pc's internet connection around my house, I was thinking of a wifi card + wireless router, but that's going to be quite expensive.
Could use a bluetooth dongle for my pc and connect with that and share my pc's broadband connection, or is this not possible?
You can get the internet shared on the XDA II with a bluetooth dongle, but don't expect to get your full bandwidth.
I ran a speed test on my XDA II using bluetooth (via activesync passthrough) and only got 556kbps (near the desktop).
But Bear in mind that the speed deteriorates quite quickly the further from the computer you get.
It works fine for streaming radio and skype and I can get a range of about 15m (thats throught a floor and a wall - thin ones) and still listen to the radio.
Of course wi-fi has the advantages of speed, distance, and you can then use hotspots. But is rather pricey - mainly the SD wi-fi card, wireless router would probably turn out cheaper.
All i'm really interested in is the ability to lay in bed, browse a few webpages and sit on msn, not a lot else really, so the bandwidth hopefully should be ok
funhat said:
All i'm really interested in is the ability to lay in bed, browse a few webpages and sit on msn, not a lot else really, so the bandwidth hopefully should be ok
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Yes, in fact thats all i use it for really, well and skype and radio. Browsing is a bit slow on non ppc or wap sites.....the graphics really slow it down.....flash stuff loads ok tho
when you connects with activesync with bluetooht and have network shareing enabled in activesync you have access to your pc's internet connection.....
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Hi all,
I live in a country where GPRS is very expensive to live with, however I have a DSL connection at home, and I would like to have a program that enables my wizard to connect to the internet via my PC DSL connection, that is, the wizard connects through BT to my PC, and I will browse the internet (in my wizard) using the DSL connection on my PC.
this will allow me to be around the house while surfing the intenet via a DSL connection.
could you tell me please if there is a program to do so? does Wireless modem utility enable this? I strongly prefer freeware cause I dont have a credit card (I dont have money also!! )
Regards
It does it out of the box. Plug in your USB cable and it will start ActiveSync and your Wizard will share the PC's net connection. You can also do it via Wi-Fi. I have a wireless router at home, and I can sit in the living room and browse the net at broadband speeds on my phone - neat!
Andre
If you are connected PPC to PC you always have possibility to have internet connection on PPC by wired connection USB, by Bluetooth or WiFi( with some tricks or new AS 4.2)
Your PPC will show the connection to your PC's DSL connection in the network status window if you tap on the signal strength indicator.
My MDA II shows it like this for example:
Thank you all,
You are very neat and helpful guys
jas_pik said:
or WiFi( with some tricks or new AS 4.2)
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HOW? Please tell. I Would really like it if I could Sync over Wifi.
http://www.airscanner.com/downloads/airfix/airfix.html
Not tested AS 4.2 yet
molski said:
HOW? Please tell. I Would really like it if I could Sync over Wifi.
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I don't think you can ActiveSync over wi-fi. You can browse the net via your wi-fi router though.
Andre
mohgdeisat said:
Thank you all,
You are very neat and helpful guys
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No problem, did you get it to work?
I'm trying to get wi-fi working right on my exec. I can connect to wi-fi networks fine, but when I try to surf the web in Pocket IE, it automatically connects to the GPRS connection. Even when I have the phone radio off, it just won't connect thruogh wi-fi. Does anybody know how to get Pocket IE using Wi-Fi?
Internet via WIFI
Turn on the WIFI first from wireless manager and make sure you are connected to your wireless network before you fire up the Pocket IE. It should work. It works fine on my Exec.
Well, I got it working. But it's really slow. Any ways to speed it up? I'm sitting right next to my router and it takes almost 30 seconds to load a page.
Exec only has WIFIb built in, hence it does take time to download pages, specially if the page contains lots of pictures, which most of the web pages do now-a-days. Its really mainly for occasional use, you cannot really use it as a desktop replacemnet. WIFI is only good if you are sharing files from your machine(s) on LAN. It still has an issue on WAN. I have tried doing number of things over WIFI, LAN is ok but WAN, not really.
Please excuse me if this is a stupid question
I have an Ameo , and I also have use of a UMPC - which has Wi-fi , but no BT
Would it be theoretically possible to create an adhoc network between the two devices (wi-fi) , and thereby share the Ameo's HSDPA connection ?
I realise that simply connecting them by USB cable will let me do the same thing, but I really could do without having the two physically connected
If the above won't work I'll have to get a dongle for the UMPC I think !
zoidster said:
Please excuse me if this is a stupid question
I have an Ameo , and I also have use of a UMPC - which has Wi-fi , but no BT
Would it be theoretically possible to create an adhoc network between the two devices (wi-fi) , and thereby share the Ameo's HSDPA connection ?
I realise that simply connecting them by USB cable will let me do the same thing, but I really could do without having the two physically connected
If the above won't work I'll have to get a dongle for the UMPC I think !
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I'm not sure about WiFi but I can tell you something use a USB cable, the one you use for ActiveSync. What I found this summer when using my X7500 as HDSPA modem for my PC was that using USB with the internet sharing connection was far more stable and fast than using BT wireless connection.
Now related to WiFi, just a theory. I don't think that you can with the provided software. What Internet Sharing program does are two things as far as I understand. First launch a connection to the HDSPA system and "listen" the PC either on BT or in USB. Second manage to do some sort of routing between the WAN network (HDSPA) and the "local" network (BT or USB). But I place local between quotes because I'm not meaning LAN which is real LOCAL Area Network, that could work in WiFi. I mean "local" in terms of near to the PC or something like that.
So... perhaps you will be able to connect the Athena and the UMPC using a peer-to-peer WiFi connection which looks possible to me. And for sure you will be able to generate a HDSPA connection to the WAN. But you need a program to route the data from the HDSPA to the WiFi in the Athena in order to get communication in the UMPC using the Athena as router which is the function I mention as second function of the Internet Sharing program.
OK all this is in theory off-course.
Anyway I can tell you that phisical connection using USB for Internet Sharing is solid as a rock and works great for hours.
Best Regards,
mahjong
I'm buying a TV with an ethernet port which has the feature of streaming via the net. Can I tether my phone to my PC and have the TV pull a signal from my PC using my phone as a modem? How would one do this?
Thanks!
this could be done using a pc and internet connection sharing or a cradlepoint router.
however, it will also be a great way to burn so much data usage to get your account suspended, warned or charged for overage.
Ive used massive amounts of data without being warned. In fact,Ive ran bit torrent. There is no way that I have not gone over the limit some month using the phone as my primary internet connection.
Im not entirely sure what the OP is asking,but here is what I know. You can use your phone as an internet connection in several ways. The easiest is using a hack to connect via USB or bluetooth. I have found this to be very unreliable. You can use a third party program to do the same thing as well. I use a program called PDA net which works much more reliably. You can also use hacks or third party programs to connect via wifi.
Your phone will provide a connection similar to slower DSL lines. You can expect 800-1200k downloads and 150-300k downloads (your millage may vary here,but that's what I have gotten in Ohio and Utah)
If you want to connect to an ethernet device there are a few options. You can use programs allow your phone to share over wifi and create an adhoc network. You can also connect your phone to an access point and then configure your network devices default gateways to point to the phone instead of the access point.
Hey folks,
I don't use this connection for internet access very often, but anyway, using my active sync usb connection to get on the internet, I get really slow speeds.
Often e.g. on youtube, videos really need to rebuffer very often and so on.
It seems that the active sync connection is really somehow speed limited.
My internet link here is 32mbit, so this shouldn't be an issue.
Must be an HD2-Active Sync issue. I am on Windows 7 Ultimate on the PC it's connected to.
Are there any tweaks to speed up internet connection using active sync?
thanks
boba
is the internet slow on your phone or computer?
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On the phone, that's what my post is all about. On the notebook it's connected too, I get the full 32mbit of my internet link. It's definately not an issue with my internet link in general. Must be an HD2 issue. Or Windows7, who knows.
And btw, when I use wifi, or 3G internet, speeds are fine, way better than via active sync too.
boba
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ok I understand,I was under the assumption that you could transfer or tether the internet one way phone to computer, unless you were using wifi which I believe you can use you laptop to make it an access point.
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Sure, I have several other options for decent internet access, but my point simply is, why is the active sync link that slow? ;-)
boba
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If you have any wireless card on your computer, i would suggest you to use your computer as a wireless router (there is a program in win 7 called connectify which converts your normal wifi card into a wifi access point) and you can connect to it from your HD2 via wifi, and speeds will be very fast.
Just a thought if it's not your situation, just ignore me.
Regards Gjizaqin.
how to do so i can use that to? i mean surf in my mobile true active sync, what program do i need?
and if i do so, can i then make my htc hd2 as a wifi router to share that connection to another computer wirelles?
As far as i know the phone is capable of this
Internet
Wired
Phone (Via Provider Data Plan) -> Computer (Via USB to PC in Connections)
Wireless
Phone (Via Provider Data Plan) -> Wireless Device (Via Wifi Internet Sharing)
Wireless Router -> Phone
Provider Data Plan ->Phone