So, the college I go to blocks all ports so I cannot use live, psn, steam, etc. I have been using my Evo's 4G with Wireless Tether for the past month now. I have access to everything now. I was running CM6's wimax alpha and everything was great. CM6 was messing up so I switched back to stock. That night I played BF2 and it was still okay.
Anyways...point is now I cannot play BF2. It lets me connect to the servers, but whenever I try to play the game it says "lost connection to servers". But, I still have access to Steam and PSN. Does stock have some sort firewall that cm6 doesn't? Is it possible to open ports?. Its weird, when I was running the CM6 alpha, the Wimax was great. But now on stock is doesn't let me use BF2
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Not long ago I tested both wireless tether for root users and the built in wired tether on Cyan's 5.0.4.1 and both worked just fine. Today I tried to use tether and can't seem to get either working... Connects just fine and windows even says the connection has internet access but when trying to load a web page only the up arrow on the data icon lights up and the down arrow never comes on. I've only used it a few times and haven't downloaded any large files or anything. Is it possible T-mobile is somehow blocking internet access while tethered (ports maybe?), and has anyone experienced anything similar on t-mo?
works great
Works great for me! Perhaps that leaf in your avatar is making you a touch paranoid?
........works find here.
I'm in the valley and mine works fine...
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Works great for me! Perhaps that leaf in your avatar is making you a touch paranoid?
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just lol'd at this
No problems here. I use wifi/usb tether all the time - the connection is better than the wifi we get in the neighborhood (community wifi thing)
Bandwidth is a non issue. You ARE connecting with an unlimited data plan, right?
T-Mobile doesn't know you are tethering. They can only see you are using data. They don't know if you are streaming a youtube video on your phone or browsing the internet on your computer while tethering. I'm pretty sure the issue is elsewhere. They will be able to see how much data you use (I believe your phone doesn't use that much). What really eats up data is streaming videos or downloading files (music, the latest ROM, or whatever). I have used the crap out of tethering and never had T-Mobile cut me off. I hear once you use 10 GB of data they severly slow your connection, but it should still work.
After flashing Cyan's 5.0.5 everything is working again, learned my lesson to keep away from "optimized" versions of already near perfect Cyan roms. Appreciate the input nonetheless, thanks .
Please look at my post regarding T-mobile tethering
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26649587#post26649587
Is anyone successfully using 3g mobile hotspot (hacked) to tether their ps3? Im getting constant 3g drops... i can undestand not being able to game online with this, but even watching netflix or just web browsing is tough. With hotspot not on, my 3g icon never goes away, only when i start using the hotspot. Ive redid the settings through qpst twice so i know theyre right... any suggestions?
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Having the same problem trying to share my connection with my 360. I've managed to play cod online without too much too much lag but I do lose connection completely on occasion for no apparent reason. I live less than 2 miles from my tower.
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You guys are talking about your phone dropping your connection I cant even get mine to connect I use BARNACEL and OPEND GARDEN I even tried using EASY TETHER to my laptop and sharing my wifi with my built in INTEL. How did you guys get connected?
While I haven't done much tethering with the fascinate, I did use the "wifi tether" app on my incredible to share my connection with a PS3 successfully. Also, I seem to remember the built-in tethering working as well (if you're on CM7/MIUI). Actually, I just saw something the other day about needing to do a fix for the stock android tethering to work, so I don't know if that's a good option. Try wifi tether.
Last wk i used wireless tethering and i cant get to yahoo, facebook, espn. But when i go to google, it loads fine. I search google and it comes up fine. I click on a result and the page wont load. I have full signal and im on 4g. Has anyone else had this issue???
UPDATE: seems to only happen when im on 4g. But why tho?
I use the "wireless tether" app from the market
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Last wk i used wireless tethering and i cant get to yahoo, facebook, espn. But when i go to google, it loads fine. I search google and it comes up fine. I click on a result and the page wont load. I have full signal and im on 4g. Has anyone else had this issue???
UPDATE: seems to only happen when im on 4g. But why tho?
I use the "wireless tether" app from the market
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I don't think wireless tether works with 4g? I'm not too positive, but if that's the case, your computer probably has google chached so it doesn't need a connection to load it.
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Last wk i used wireless tethering and i cant get to yahoo, facebook, espn.
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This is the third complaint I've seen about 4G tethering issues in the past day or so, I'm suspicious of something.
Can you describe what happes when you try to go to a site that doesn't work. Does it give you an error? Does it half-load? Does it wait forever?
Also, which city are you located in?
Mine is working fine on 4g and on any site.
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Mine is working fine on 4g and on any site.
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Haven't tried it with 4G yet, but I was having major problems until I went to the Android Tether site and d/led the latest Beta. No problems with 3G and includes infrastructure mode!
I've had 0 issues myself. Can use via 3g or 4g and no restriction on sites visited in any manner
My wireless tether does not work on 4g. Same problem google loads fine, but trying to go to a site it just sits there loading. White page no errors. And data is not moving on the phone. Only site I could get to load was cnn.com. tried a 100 other and just hangs loading page.
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My wireless tether does not work on 4g.
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Which city are you in? Which 4G network are you connected to (Settings -> Wireless and network -> 4G settings)?
Are you running EB13? Stock or custom kernel/ROM?
Which wireless tether client and version are you using? If it's "WiFi Tether v3.0-preX" are you using "Auto", "WEXT (ad-hoc)" or "Softap (master)" setup (Settings -> Change Setup-Method)?
Does the problem persist if you switch from "ad-hoc" to "master" or vice-versa? Note if you do, you'll probably have to temporarilly disable your encryption or change your passphrase.
It wouldn't surprise me if some folks are having 4G tethering issues based on the market they're in. Based on the symptoms, I'm suspicious if fragmented packets aren't being dropped. This can be fixed, but would require debugging with someone who both has the problem and is willing to run adb commands.
Can you visit this site? (Don't go there before you're tethered. If you do, clear your browser cache.)
http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~mkasick/test.html
Here is what I can tell you now, as I lose 4g at home.
Wireless tether 2.0.6
Ad hoc
No encryption
Bradenton,FL
Like I said before though why does cnn.com work fine.
PM me if you want more info.
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Same problem with wireless tether
I am using a Samsung Epic 4G. Tethering worked fine on 4G network here in Pompano Beach, FL until last week when I ran the Sprint Upgrade.
Cannot load much of anything but Google (this is not cached, it will perform a new search but cant get any of the results). Any attempt to get to other sites only produces the dreaded blank page with "Loading" that goes on forever.
I have virtually no connectivity in 4G but 3G works pretty well.
I am using wireless tether 2.0.5 which I reinstalled after an update. But have tried other versions and other apps with same results on 4G.
Since problem began, I have loaded various versions of the operating system, OneClick and Midnight ROM 4.1 (with 4.0 I couldn't even get a 4G signal)
Any help would be appreciated.
hey everyone, I LOVE cm7 and stock android, but I use my phone to tether more than anything else and I need a solid tethering solution. My problem is that Wireless Tether app doesn't work with CM7 (at least last time I tried it) and the built in tether doesn't seem to work for me, (broadcasts but I don't get any internet connection)
Does anyone know of a way to Fix wireless tether app or why the built in one isn't working for me?
use barnacle tether, its free. but if the default settings arent working then go into the barnacle settings and click the "skip-wpa supplicant" or something like that. if it didnt work the first time it should work then
Thanks! I'll try that
I use the built in tether quite often on CM7. I am running rc3 right now and haven't had a chance to test it out but it has worked on the last 4 nightlies I've run.
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hey everyone, I LOVE cm7 and stock android, but I use my phone to tether more than anything else and I need a solid tethering solution. My problem is that Wireless Tether app doesn't work with CM7 (at least last time I tried it) and the built in tether doesn't seem to work for me, (broadcasts but I don't get any internet connection)
Does anyone know of a way to Fix wireless tether app or why the built in one isn't working for me?
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the reason why the built in tether does not work for you is because you either used a wireless tether app or you have one installed. what you have to do is you must uninstall all wireless tether apps you have and then you must reflash your mod and obviously reboot once you do that it will be working for you. trust i just had this problem and i did a lot of research on it and i actually figured this out today and it worked. so give it a try and let me know how it goes. ^_^
would love to say this is the problem but it isnt
has something to do with dhcp, i can connect wirelessly to the phone np but wont get an internet connection because the phone decides to flake out and not assign an ip address for my laptop.
I tried to connect it earlier and it didnt work but i left it connected. I walked away, came back 10 minutes later and finally got an ip address and internet on my laptop. so either it just takes its sweet time assigning an ip or its tempermental
all good here
hi,
of no real help, but I am using CM7 stable and mine works without issue.
CM7 Final here and it works fine for me. Like others suggested, try wiping and reflashing.
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As some of you may know yesterday i went through he!! getting my Razr M rooted. I did it. The reason for the root was the built in tether on the Droid Razr M doesn't work with my Droid tablets both running ICS. So I figured if I root and then get a tether from Google Play then it might work. Problem now is I've downloaded all of them seems like (accept FoxFi it sucks now because it makes you install a screen lock password that can never be removed.) I set these things up start the tether and no device can see them. My laptop, tablet destop all nothing. As if it weren't there. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong if anything. I've used wifi tether on my rooted Droid X and it worked great. Now not so much. There seems to be extra settings like select lan network. The choices are ip addresses. 192.168.1.0/24, 192.168.2.0/24, 192.168.3.0/24, 172.20.21.0/24, 172.20.22.0/24, 172.20.23.0/24, 10.10.1.0/24, 10.10.2.0/24, 10.10.3.0/24 what do they mean? Is this my roadblock? Frustrating as hell. Using 3rd party tethers for rooted devices has always been simple and effective. I used them on my Droid X because the built in version would drop out after 5-15 minutes and I'd have to turn it off and on to get it back. Now I just want to use my tablets. A USB tether would be fine with me if I could find one that worked on my tablet. I used to use PdaNet but it's bundled with FoxFi now. Suggestions?
Broke down installed Pdanet and Foxfi. Installed pdanet for tablets on tablet side. Made a connection to the phone via foxfi. The hope was foxfi would talk to the tablet where the stock tether wouldn't. No dice. Apparently the problem resides in the way to phone negotiates internet traffic. There's a connection there but no communicating is going on. I've spent too much time on this already. I can get us online through the phones via connectifyme installed on my wifes laptop. It seems a router between the phone and the tablet fixes the issue. Problem is there's no way to connect a router to a phone. While not perfect, it's better than nothing. It's just my wife likes being online during trips and that isn't possible now.