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Internet through USB from PC

Hi All,
I have searched the forums but can't find anything on my specific issue. I used to have an XDA Orbit and if I connected it via USB I could use my PC's internet connection. Is there anyway I can do this with my shiny new G1. The reason I’m asking is I have bugger all reception at work and the Wi-Fi is located in another building, which is too far away.
Please help!

Hi,
My above post has been moved here but im not trying to connect my pc to the internet using my phone, im trying to conect my phone to the internet through my PC.
As far as I can see this post does not apply to my question, can somebody please help? I can't be the only one this applies to!

If the computer has wifi and is connected to the internet through wired network it can be done...
Is this your case?

My work PC doesn't have Wi-Fi. My home PC does though.
All I want is for my G1 to be able to use my computers internet conection via USB. My old XDA Orbit used to be able to do it via active sync.
i.e I can surf the web on my phone using USB connection as the access point
Any ideas?

As far as I know this probably will not work, but you can try reversing the port forward technique with ADB

ianmason said:
My work PC doesn't have Wi-Fi. My home PC does though.
All I want is for my G1 to be able to use my computers internet conection via USB. My old XDA Orbit used to be able to do it via active sync.
i.e I can surf the web on my phone using USB connection as the access point
Any ideas?
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Why would you want to surf the web through the phone when you have a PC on the other end of that wire which does the same thing, but better?

LPChris said:
Why would you want to surf the web through the phone when you have a PC on the other end of that wire which does the same thing, but better?
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Several reasons that i can think of
1? Bad reception indoors, so i can waste time at work by downloading useless apps on my G1, and everyone thinks im working.
2? My cell provider charges me for internet bandwith usage (per kb/mb), im cheap and don't wanna pay them.
3? I'm a massochist, and enjoy using the G1's browser more than firefox(bleh!)
4? I'm running out of reasons now
All this hypothetically could be hypothetical.
Yup, im bored at work

Exactly, item 1 sums it up. I have no reception at work so if I have a data connection I can get email notifications and test out my apps. I can't believe no one else is missing this feature. On my xda I had it set up to sync with my various email accounts etc. It wouldn,t be a problem if tmobile's reception wasn't so poor!

I would assume it is possible but would have to forward ports from your computer to the phone, similar to how the thetherbot app forwards ports from the phone to the computer. But I may be wrong that could be a one way street for data.

Wow...you are a masochist As much as I like the browser on the g1 compared to other phones..I just don't see why you'd always want to use it instead of a PC

I don't want to surf the web on the G1 when right infront of me I have a PC. I simply want it to have a reliable data connection when I'm at work. As I have no signal from t bloody mobile and no wifi!
Nobody made a sync application similar to MS ActiveSync?

Why would we make something that is already built in?

ohh forget it. Your obviously not reading what i've written.

ianmason said:
ohh forget it. Your obviously not reading what i've written.
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No you obviously haven't paid attention.
Why would we create something to sync our phone to our computer when it does it all OTA. On top of this how did you expect it to sync our calendar and such when it is all proprietary?
What exactly do you want "sync'd"?
And once again... I am sure you could figure it out if you read up on adb forward commands.

ianmason said:
Hi All,
I have searched the forums but can't find anything on my specific issue. I used to have an XDA Orbit and if I connected it via USB I could use my PC's internet connection. Is there anyway I can do this with my shiny new G1. The reason I’m asking is I have bugger all reception at work and the Wi-Fi is located in another building, which is too far away.
Please help!
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As my first post says I have no reception at work at all, this means I go all day without being able to sync my various email accounts etc. I would also like to be able to demo what our device can do to my collegues. unfortunately i don't understand adb or indeed know what it stands for and as I have no programming knowledge i thought I would speak with people that do.
I will try to figure it out for myself and post my findings here. I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks it would be useful.

I'm also looking for some solution to use my Laptop's internet connection on my G1 via USB. The reason for this is I have a very weak neighbors wifi and only my Laptop can connect to it. I am writing android apps that need to connect to the internet.

cmavr8 said:
If the computer has wifi and is connected to the internet through wired network it can be done...
Is this your case?
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How can you use the computers wifi to send internet to the g1... while the computer has a wired connection..... please let me know.... I has windows vista..... I would luv to know this... thank you.... please send the info to [email protected]... thank you!!!

dotdevil said:
How can you use the computers wifi to send internet to the g1... while the computer has a wired connection..... please let me know.... I has windows vista..... I would luv to know this... thank you.... please send the info to [email protected]... thank you!!!
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you could set up an adhoc connection on the computer and connect to it on the g1 then bridge the networks

unfortunately my work PC does not have a Wi-Fi card so this wouldn't work. damn it whys it so complicated!?! :-(

You could just buy a router.

at home wifi internet connection problems...

Alright alright shoot me if this has already been asked or mentioned or thought of by anyone here or any one who you ever knew. I've been searching the entire net, the XDA forums have nothin on the subject (the the search function and i arent seeing eye to eye.).
My problem is this,
I am at home, connecting to my router, and that connects fine. But i am not connected to the internet. On my PC there is an option if i want to connect to the network, and then the internet. But in the HD2, there is no option to connect, Im only connecting ot the network, but not internet access.
went to a buddys house, he got his wi fi up and running in a matter of seconds, he did exactly as i have done, located the connection, typed the pass, and that was that.
but i cannot even find a place that asks me for an internect connection after i have connected to the network, nothing there.
And i cannot find any help on this subject.
i hope you get me if not, then dont bother. i am tired of reading mountains of crap that has nothing to do with my problem.
thanks in advance
appologies for my tone, just a little frustrated right now.
ah, btw, my 3g connect works fine. just not the wifi.

Once the network is connected there's nothing more to do to get internet access. At home, does it take a long time for the HD2 to connect to the network (arrows moving on the wifi icon more than ~5secs)? If you co to connection manager -> wifi -> advanced -> advanced tab, what IP do you have?

Well it connects to 'alice-wlan' really quickly, and automatically.
but there is still no internet connection. i think its a router setting problem, because on my pc i also have to connect first to alice.wlan (does it autoimatically) but then i have to manually connect to the internet (broadband)... i do not knwo how to change this.
i dont know what IP i have, you mean as a router?

correction,
now it connects to the router quite slow, if it does at all, then drops it almost immediatly.

saintnickxiii said:
i dont know what IP i have, you mean as a router?
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Just tell me the IP address that is displayed where I explained.

saintnickxiii said:
on my pc i also have to connect first to alice.wlan (does it autoimatically) but then i have to manually connect to the internet (broadband)..
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that makes me think you are using the old style routers that don't hold the broadband always open. meaning either the router or the pc need to dial the adsl. usually you put the connection details into the router and it handles it,,
just thinking out loud.

Hmm actually now you say that I've been at someone's place recently where they had an ADSL plan that was time-billed, so they had to open a browser and login before being able to access the web...
saintnickxiii said:
but then i have to manually connect to the internet (broadband)...
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Could you please say what you have to do for this?

it says 0.0.0.0 hmmm i dont know if that right tho

Wait until the arrows stop moving on the wifi icon, and it whould then say something more relevant.

still nothing, 0.0.0.0 ...

kilrah said:
Hmm actually now you say that I've been at someone's place recently where they had an ADSL plan that was time-billed, so they had to open a browser and login before being able to access the web...
Could you please say what you have to do for this?
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well, in win7 i alice connects automatically, then theres a broadband (internet) tab, i click on that, and it runs the use/pass and connects.

Cannot Connect to Wifi

I never use this phone but its my cousin's X2. She said she can connect to wifi connection but she cant browse, or do anything with it. The page wont load.
What is the problem here?
Thanks!

LuffyPSP said:
I never use this phone but its my cousin's X2. She said she can connect to wifi connection but she cant browse, or do anything with it. The page wont load.
What is the problem here?
Thanks!
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Problem with WiFi router.
Some WiFi routers let you connect but not actually use it:
they require password or are not for public use.

Shouldnt be that is the problem. cuz she did connect to my wifi router a couple of weeks ago.
Well i did a soft reset(though i dont know if it is really resetted), and it worked again. But i still hope someone can answer why is this happening.
Thanks!

Tell her to temporarily open up her WiFi connection and disable encription.
Try to connect.
This worked for me on my dads router, a 2WIRE modem/router combination that he got from AT&T, (terrible device).
When done just re-enable the encryption.
If she wants to keep the encryption then you need to go into the WiFi settinngs and locate her WiFi signal.
Click Connect.
Then try each encrypted setting until it works(TPK, SHARED, TPK-PSK, etc. . . ). This is what I had to do at my office and at home. It took a bit of time but I finally found the correct type of encryption.

Worth trying. Will try telling her these when she comes by again today. Thanks mate!

Solution for Enterprise network

Just got my Atrix this morning but can't connect to university network.
Any solution?

huongvu91 said:
Just got my Atrix this morning but can't connect to university network.
Any solution?
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I'm connecting to Wi-Fi just fine. I've connected to over 6 Wi-Fi spots with no problems. Check with another device the network first.

could you get on with your previous phone?
I know my universities network required special certificates, and getting a mobile device on required a trip to the helpdesk to specially add it.

Fixter said:
I'm connecting to Wi-Fi just fine. I've connected to over 6 Wi-Fi spots with no problems. Check with another device the network first.
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I had an Iphone 4 and a mac which connect fine.
The thing is after I put all the username and password in and click on the network name, the Wifi change to connecting and then disconnected...
Can't use a phone without wifi, can I?
I know my universities network required special certificates, and getting a mobile device on required a trip to the helpdesk to specially add it.
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But the iphone works just fine.

huongvu91 said:
I had an Iphone 4 and a mac which connect fine.
The thing is after I put all the username and password in and click on the network name, the Wifi change to connecting and then disconnected...
Can't use a phone without wifi, can I?
But the iphone works just fine.
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We can't answer your questions because you didn't give any specifics about the wireless network you're trying to connect to. Is is WPA? WPA2? PEAP? Do they have their own cert CA or do they use someone Motorola already trusts in their keychain?
It's probably better that you ask your network services dept or browse their website than ask here, especially without any details.

huongvu91 said:
But the iphone works just fine.
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I'm trying my best to remember what my school did (graduated almost 2 years ago), and i seem to remember them just putting in a blanket exception for iphones due to not being able to add them normally. Other phones still had to go through the same security exception stuff. Might be worth a trip to your school's helpdesk and just asking. That is what they're there for anyway.

Have problem using WIFI on school campus

I can pick up the WIFI, and it says excellent connection, but the school requires a login page for you to enter your username and password before you can start browsing.
So after I'm connected, I try opening a browser but it instantly says I dont have internet access. I dont know what to do or how to fix this. Has this happened to anyone else?

If your campus is like mine, you may have to go to the IT help office. Once a year I need to do this to have a clearance installed on my laptop. Havent tried yet for my G2 but I know we support iphones for wifi on campus.

How safe is it to connect the G2 to a open network without security though? Thats what worries me about connecting my G2 to my schools WiFi.

as long as there is no protection on the Wifi it is possible for other users to see what you send and receive on your phone over wifi.

boost3d23 said:
How safe is it to connect the G2 to a open network without security though? Thats what worries me about connecting my G2 to my schools WiFi.
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I'd worry more about connecting your computer to the WiFi. As far as open WiFi goes, the school ones is probably more secure than your random Starbucks is, however.

This is how to get WIFI on my campus, maybe yours might be the same
http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/network/wireless/android.html

The thing is my school network doesn't prompt me for a password.
As of now I have yet to fix the problem. In some buildings, I have no problem using the WIFI. Basically connect to the network, open my browser and it will ask me to input my ID and password and done.
But there are times where I connect to the network, open my browser and it just shows an offline page. I can keep on refreshing, but it just loads the offline page right away, and I can't find a way to input my password.
I've tried bookmarking the input page, but it still doesn't work.
I've also tried copying down the IP and DNS but it didnt work either.. and too troublesome.
For some reason WIFI on android just sucks. My old old sony ericsson phone could connect to the school network every single time. It could also connect to the ad-hoc network my windows 7 laptop send out using connectify.
Yet my new desire z has problem connecting to campus networks and cannot see ad-hoc until i temproot it and mess with the system files.
ironic huh

Really? In my school am able to connect with my g2
Sent from my HTC Vision using Tapatalk

Unfortunately there is not known any other way for the ad hoc except root and temp root.I does not work also on the latest 1.82.

How safe is it to connect the G2 to a open network without security though? Thats what worries me about connecting my G2 to my schools WiFi.
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Dude the op stated he needed a username and password..so how exactly is that an open network?
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App

If it's anything like my school, it will be WPA-Enterprise.
ID will usually be: (domain)\(student ID) where (domain) is your schools domain (ask IT for it) followed by your student ID
PW will usually be the same password you use to log into the school computers.
IT people are usually helpful in getting your devices onto the school network.

thunder9111 said:
The thing is my school network doesn't prompt me for a password.
As of now I have yet to fix the problem. In some buildings, I have no problem using the WIFI. Basically connect to the network, open my browser and it will ask me to input my ID and password and done.
But there are times where I connect to the network, open my browser and it just shows an offline page. I can keep on refreshing, but it just loads the offline page right away, and I can't find a way to input my password.
I've tried bookmarking the input page, but it still doesn't work.
I've also tried copying down the IP and DNS but it didnt work either.. and too troublesome.
For some reason WIFI on android just sucks. My old old sony ericsson phone could connect to the school network every single time. It could also connect to the ad-hoc network my windows 7 laptop send out using connectify.
Yet my new desire z has problem connecting to campus networks and cannot see ad-hoc until i temproot it and mess with the system files.
ironic huh
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This would happen to me on my campus also. What I would do is either keep pressing the back button until the browser exits completely, go back to the homepage(browser homepage), or just reboot the phone/kill browser task. Its certainly not consistent but at least one of those three would solve the problem on my campus.
On the other hand, my campus is in the city so generally hspa+ is faster than campus wifi (sad i know)

boost3d23 said:
How safe is it to connect the G2 to a open network without security though? Thats what worries me about connecting my G2 to my schools WiFi.
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Paranoia is a disease unto itself and may I add the person standing next to you may not be who they appear to be so take precaution.

More than likely you have to register your MAC address with the school. Should be done with the computer department (probably via a web page).

Gwanatu said:
More than likely you have to register your MAC address with the school. Should be done with the computer department (probably via a web page).
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this can sometimes be the case, although on my g2 here at Oxford College of Emory University, I never had to go to IT to officially register at all.
something that might work, though. Try not using the stock browser, but instead something like miren, dolphin browser or the like, and set the browser to use the desktop mode. Usually this will bring up the login screen, just like it would as if you had logged in from your laptop. hope that works for you, if not, pm me or hit me up on google talk (same user) and I can try to help troubleshoot some other possibilities.