Has anyone managed to get USB Tethering working reliably with OS X in a way that _doesn't_ require PDANet which is horribly unstable (disconnects every 10 minutes or so).
I've got 3G tethering working fine (ala this thread) but wanted to use wireless tethering so that I can piggyback my desktop (which doesn't have a wifi card) off my SGT.
3G is _probably_ ok, but 1GB costs me NZ$20 (about US$15) so I'd rather avoid chewing through it (Yes, our telecoms data charges are obscene)
Plus WiFi is much quicker as the reception in the office is a bit average.
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For those who recall, I cracked my Trinity screen on January 1st of 2008. Using MyMobiler, I still use my PDA for tethering.
Up until December 22, tethering was fine with AT&T. 3G speeds of about 400k up and down at my home. Since then, tethering breaks about 3-5 minutes after it starts, requiring a battery-out on the PDA, and a reboot of the notebook.
The tether (USB or Bluetooth) shows an active connection, but no pinging (IP or domain) and no connection. Sometimes it clears up on its own.
Last year around Christmas, my tethering slowed to a crawl -- I figured it was all the idiots getting their new-fangled phones and trying their hardest to download as many ringtones as possible. So I figured this is the same issue.
But I borrowed a friend's Motorola RAZR V3xx, plugged my SIM in, set up a tether, and it works fine. Even faster than my Trinity (500K up and down). Plus, it works for hours and hours.
I'm guessing my Trinity is just done. Sad, but possible. It gets ridiculously hot when USB charging. I've contemplated buying a new LCD screen, but I guess it's time to just retire it in the shoebox with my other 25 PDAs.
Anyone seen similar issues, though?
Tethering looks to be working on the droid side, but no connection is found on any computer, sometimes with limited connectivity icon.
Anyway i can increase the tethering data output...different channel? certain kernal or rom suggestions would be helpful
If you're connecting to your computer you can use easytether
Experimentation is the best way. If you have the wifi analyser app, scan for a channel that's not being used around you. Ive noticed that on gingerbread (when I can get it to tether) it doesn't run quite as fast, so if you have a gingerbread ROM look at that. It is three g, so signal strength is important, and if you use a lot of data (like above 1.5 gb) verizon starts killing your connection speed. Just play around with it, and don't really expect anything above 1 mbps, unless you have exceptionally good signal in a unpopulated area.
Sent from my Xoom the way it should be, rooted and with SD card.
Im am on the rooted .588 GB and have the TBH patch installed and use the Hotspot app to tether. At first I could not get it to connect half the time and the other half when it did connect seemed to suffer DNS related issues or drop connection.
I ended up adding my MAC address in the native app for authorized connections and have had ZERO issues ever since.
Hi,
My sister lives in the countryside where broadband ADSL speeds are lucky to reach 0.5Mb.
However whilst i was visiting I tested my Nexus 5 data speeds and got around 7Mb download using my 3G connection through my Three SIM (on The One Plan).
I was thinking they could purchase a SIM only contract for the One Plan (that includes tethering and unlimited data) and use that in a MIFI dongle. However doing a bit of searching it seems that Three will not allow the SIM to be used in a MIFI unit.
So that got me thinking.
I am now considering getting them a cheap Android handset with a One Plan sim installed, and use that phone as their source for internet connection at home.
Anyone else tried this?
How would you set it up for the best?
PHONE > COMPUTER / DEVICES (I would of thought that the phone wouldnt send out the best wifi signal around the house)
or
PHONE > ROUTER > COMPUTER / DEVICES ( I thought this would give a better wifi network signal around the house)
Anyone with some help / thoughts?
using router is better
opencube said:
Hi,
My sister lives in the countryside where broadband ADSL speeds are lucky to reach 0.5Mb.
However whilst i was visiting I tested my Nexus 5 data speeds and got around 7Mb download using my 3G connection through my Three SIM (on The One Plan).
I was thinking they could purchase a SIM only contract for the One Plan (that includes tethering and unlimited data) and use that in a MIFI dongle. However doing a bit of searching it seems that Three will not allow the SIM to be used in a MIFI unit.
So that got me thinking.
I am now considering getting them a cheap Android handset with a One Plan sim installed, and use that phone as their source for internet connection at home.
Anyone else tried this?
How would you set it up for the best?
PHONE > COMPUTER / DEVICES (I would of thought that the phone wouldnt send out the best wifi signal around the house)
or
PHONE > ROUTER > COMPUTER / DEVICES ( I thought this would give a better wifi network signal around the house)
Anyone with some help / thoughts?
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a portable hotspot will not give them best speeds,using a router is a better option and it will give much better speed.
Hope it helps you! gudluck!
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I USB tether my phone to an old box that runs as a router. Works very well. Be warned though, that Three throttle tethered connections if the data use is high: and 'high' to them seems to be a trivial amount of data. I need to do some experimenting to find out how it knows it's throttled (packet inspection or AP settings) though.
in the uk, on the ee uk network and have 20gb monthly data
i have created a hotspot but it always hangs
anyway of speeding this up, on my tablet device its a lot faster and doesnt hang, so im guessing it could be an issue with my macbook 2013 retina 13' or is there something else i can try?
I am having exactly the same issue with my Z3 COmpact + MacBook Pro 15" Retina 2013.
Tethering with my 1+1 no problems -.-
This makes no f:ing sense.
Try USB tethering, I think the WiFi chip in the z3c is **** and can't handle tethering at full speed. Install HoRNDIS for your Mac to enable USB tether.
Im on t-mobile here in USA.I tether to me Sony laptop and me ps4 streaming fifa at the same time zero issues
MYB87 said:
Try USB tethering, I think the WiFi chip in the z3c is **** and can't handle tethering at full speed. Install HoRNDIS for your Mac to enable USB tether.
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I often use the WiFi hotspot on my Z3C with my Macbook Air with no slow downs in speed. I do not tether it though.
Probably depends more on the speed or maybe I have a faulty unit. My LTE reaches around 50-60 Mbps when I use the WiFi hotspot it drops to 20-25 Mbps with both my Mac and PC. When I use the USB tether I get full speed.
Ive been trying to use tethering to my laptop and its to the point of unusable, im getting 56k speedsi if that while a speed test from my phone im getting 15-30 down and 2-10 up.
I'm using wifi hotspot ive tried both 2.4 ghz and 5 ghz. I have also tried the USB Tether but my windows 10 doesnt like it for some reason. Im on verizon with a shared Data plan that includes the Hotspot feature. anyone have any ideas
Thanks
No idea, but I've tethered to a Windows 7 laptop. Performance was good, so I never bothered to check the speed.
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I am having same issue. I use T-mobile and my OnePlusOne never had this issue. I would go to gym and just turn on my hotspot and watch Netflix without issue in the past. With the MXPE, it's like being on 56k modem. Anyone else having this issue?
I tether almost everyday due to terrible speeds at work. I'm on Verizon unlimited and I do not experience any speed issues. I unlocked but I made no changes for tether as that worked out of the box
I tried Bluetooth tethering which works fine without any issue so it's not exactly a carrier issue. I also verify with t-mobile that they didn't turn of my hotspot feature by accident.
I have the same issue on TMO US. With my Nexus 5, I had fast, dependable tethering. Now with the MXPE my tethering is painfully slow and flaky. Not good at all when on the road.
I'm having the same issue. I just upgraded from a Droid MAXX that had fantastic tethering speeds, and now on my new MXPE it's like being on dialup. Has anyone come up with a solution? I've been loving the phone so far, but tethering is too important to me and I won't be able to keep the phone if I can't figure it out.
I've had this happen twice. A reboot fixed it both times.
I've had this happen more than twice... Hoping the devs can come up with a fix
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boricuastock said:
I tether almost everyday due to terrible speeds at work. I'm on Verizon unlimited and I do not experience any speed issues. I unlocked but I made no changes for tether as that worked out of the box
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I'm on VZW ULDP and mine can be painfully slow at times as others have indicated. Usually a reboot will rectify it. But that's not really convenient. I have it set up to start tether automatically when I start my car (bluetooth connection activated via tasker) so I can automatically get traffic to work or home on my z ultra.
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I had my first tethering session yesterday. I am on Verizon. A customer I was meeting with needed email access on his Surface Pro and there was no free WiFi where we met. I went in and setup a portable WiFi hotspot. We were both quite impressed with the speed. Keep in mind, this is the only time I have tried it but there were no issues.
hello i just got my moto x pure and i was trying to tether everything seems to be ok until i try use internet in my macbook and is not trasmitting data,same thing happened with nexus 6 i found that when lte it stops transfering data,this is so stupid this is an unlocked phone and it wont let me tether?????? wtf........im using simple mobile unlimited 4g LTE ,i was using an Asus ZenFone 2 and tether without issues,thanks.
This happens almost every time I use the hotspot. Rebooting usually fixes it - temporarily. I'm really hoping that marshmallow has better hotspot performance on the MXP
I get this issue... It's not exactly slow speeds, more like a spotty connection. I use Remote Desktop to do my work, which should still technically run smoothly (albeit slowly) on a 56k connection. I am connecting to a Windows NT server, so I am only using 16-bit graphics quality to reduce the strain on my bandwidth. We didn't even have anything that much faster than T1 at that time, so I can't imagine a Windows NT server running slowly on a modem connection. I noticed a couple things that were strange, so I think there may be settings on my phone causing it but I cannot be sure.
The connection fast when I test the tethering at home, but when I am out the connection constantly drops. I cannot even get a stable connection to my server to do any work. This is not when I am in the car moving from cell tower to cell tower, this is if I am at a place without WiFi, such as my dentist's office.
Chrome gets stuck at "Resolving host..." when trying to visit any websites. This would lead me to believe it is a DNS error, however this does not explain the connection instability with Remote Desktop, and using the address's IP address does not seem to fix this, strangely enough.
I am on a VZW grandfathered unlimited plan, using the TruPure ROM. I did not want to move away from stock, but I did it in an attempt to fix my tethering issues. So far nothing has worked.