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Android wifi tether

Hi All,
I wondering if someone can help me out. I rooted my epic and installed the latest android wifi tether and everything seems to be going okay as I am able to start tether and see the normal tether screen displaying Download 0.4kB and Upload of 0.3kB.
However i am not able to see connect correctly on my laptop. In the laptop, under wireless network connections, i see EpicTether (which i choose as the ssid) but the icon (right of the word EpicTether) looks different than the icons from my home wifi router. The EpicTether's icon is three blue boxes in the shape of a triangle where my home wifi shows the normal guage of wifi connectivity strength. I am using windows 7 premium by the way.
I've tried changing the channels on the epic, tried enable access-control under settings to no avail...
can someone please help? thanks.

Android WiFi tether is an Ad-Hoc network (device to device), not an infrastructure network like your home wifi is. That's why the icon is different.
Why it cannot connect could be 1000000 different things. Is the laptop part of a company domain and its possible that policies are preventing connection to an AdHoc type connection?

Thanks for the explanation. so that icon is normal.
My laptop is not a company laptop, it is pretty basic for home surfing use.

juejaimon said:
Thanks for the explanation. so that icon is normal.
My laptop is not a company laptop, it is pretty basic for home surfing use.
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"pretty basic" to me translates as "should connect" lol. Not sure where you should go from there. I have heard lots of windows 7 ad hoc issues though. Search around google for "Windows 7 cant connect to ad hoc" and see what kind of fixes you see.

Thanks again.... made some success...
i read that the intel drivers for the internal wireless card may need updated drivers for the ad-hoc....
installed the new drivers and am able to connect now!... but will not provide me internet access.

Restart the computer (usually works most times), and or try releasing and renewing I.P address.

Need Assistance. PC to Phone wifi connection messed up

Hello all,
I am very new in networking and wifi. My problem is I have an Cat 5 cable running to the modem from my desktop; and also an Asus wireless adapter installed on the desktop to access "ad Hoc" on station mode - my Epson workforce 435. All these work without issues whatsoever. The cable provides great internet access and the wireless card permits all printing, scanning and fax via wifi.
Now, I have just purchased a sony xperia acro s. Wanted to hook it up on the wifi settings. In fact didnt have to do too much- switched on wifi on the phone- changed Station mode to AP- scanned- found "Storm Trooper" - and connected onto the wireless network (without even adding a new connection or making any alteration - except the WEP password which I have changed to wpsk2 something (compatible with phone)).
Since connection was connected via "StormTrooper" ssid (in fact also name of my pc)- all was fine and I had used this connection for about 3 days on and off on the xperia, great connection all activities were optimum.
Just today, the connection methods changed. It shows up on the phone as connected, but cannot access internet on it. And upon disconnecting the device, I LOOSE the connection via the CAT 5 direct - in totality. Cannot access internet on PC anymore, and error messages come on screen
" Windows Network Diagnostic Policy is Disabled" . To solve it went into "services" but was unable to do so. So had restored it to a point where everything worked fine and pc is back to normal.
Tried the connection three times again with the phone, and same problem ensued. No luck. Had to restore PC everytime to get back internet connection.
Look forward to expertise.
PC specs: Storm Trooper
intel i3770k
Sabertooth z77
Ati 7850 Sapphire
8 GB Ram (MB compatible corsair)
1 TB HDD Green
120gb ssd
Corsair H100

Sony Xperia Acro S said:
Hello all,
I am very new in networking and wifi. My problem is I have an Cat 5 cable running to the modem from my desktop; and also an Asus wireless adapter installed on the desktop to access "ad Hoc" on station mode - my Epson workforce 435. All these work without issues whatsoever. The cable provides great internet access and the wireless card permits all printing, scanning and fax via wifi.
Now, I have just purchased a sony xperia acro s. Wanted to hook it up on the wifi settings. In fact didnt have to do too much- switched on wifi on the phone- changed Station mode to AP- scanned- found "Storm Trooper" - and connected onto the wireless network (without even adding a new connection or making any alteration - except the WEP password which I have changed to wpsk2 something (compatible with phone)).
Since connection was connected via "StormTrooper" ssid (in fact also name of my pc)- all was fine and I had used this connection for about 3 days on and off on the xperia, great connection all activities were optimum.
Just today, the connection methods changed. It shows up on the phone as connected, but cannot access internet on it. And upon disconnecting the device, I LOOSE the connection via the CAT 5 direct - in totality. Cannot access internet on PC anymore, and error messages come on screen
" Windows Network Diagnostic Policy is Disabled" . To solve it went into "services" but was unable to do so. So had restored it to a point where everything worked fine and pc is back to normal.
Tried the connection three times again with the phone, and same problem ensued. No luck. Had to restore PC everytime to get back internet connection.
Look forward to expertise.
PC specs: Storm Trooper
intel i3770k
Sabertooth z77
Ati 7850 Sapphire
8 GB Ram (MB compatible corsair)
1 TB HDD Green
120gb ssd
Corsair H100
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So you're using your desktop as a wireless router? If you're using Win 7 you might try Connectify or something similar.

MrObvious said:
So you're using your desktop as a wireless router? If you're using Win 7 you might try Connectify or something similar.
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Solved: Interference was by Avast and minor settings on wifi. All working now.

[Q] Portable Hotspot via Orange (EE) connected but no traffic-I have searched...

Hi,
Firstly I should introduce myself, my name is George, live in Essex and have a passion for cars and gadgets.
I've been roaming this forum since I had my first android device a HTC Hero and try and use search as much as possible rather than repeating other peoples problems but I am properly stuck with this one..
To be short,
Device Details:
Device: Google Nexus 4
Android Version: 4.2.1
Carrier: Orange (EE)
Problem: Portable hotspot is active and I can connect to it from various devices but there is no data pass through.
Solutions tried:
Changing the APN type to every possible solution mentioned (i.e consumer broadband etc)
Using both open and sercured sercurity on the hotspot
Connecting using everything from another phone to my Google Chromebook and all imbetween
I've read there has been mention of Orange blocking this but most people find this isn't the case and its usually fixed via the APN.
The only thing that looks slightly odd is that an ipconfig on my windows machine(s) shows 192.168.xxx.xxx yet the IP address displayed by my Nexus is 10.166.xxx.xxx and if I ping my Nexus's IP from my machine i do get a response.... (all when connected to the hotspot)
Even with a ip release/renew still picks up 192.168
So that is my issue....
I can't think of anything else bar a factory reset which i'd rather not do just yet so thought i'd ask here first I geuinely searched everywhere!
any help would be much appreciated....

Don't mean to bump this but if anyone could offer any advice it would be much appreciated!
Even if someone could just confirm they are using the Orange/EE network with the Nexus 4 and has it working?
Thank you!!

i'm also on orange (EE).
bummer. mine's not working either. i thought it was but i think i was connecting to my router's wifi instead.
i also tried bluetooth tethering but couldn't get that working at all.

A sort of "me too", here: I'm also an Orange (EE) customer who can't get WiFi (or Bluetooth) tethering to work. However, USB tethering works fine - just appears to install a RNDIS virtual Ethernet adapter, and then just works.
Using Wireshark, I noticed that DNS lookups (which use the phone as a DNS server/ proxy) actually work. However, SYNs for connections to hosts on the Internet go unanswered. I'm beginning to suspect that the phone just isn't forwarding packets from the WiFi interface to the cell interface (but no idea why)
As a sort of aside: I'm pretty sure this used to work on my Motorola Atrix via Orange.

Having the exact same problem, running CM10.1.
Have messed around with APN settings but does nothing, laptop connects phone and even shows as having internet access but trying to visit any site just times out.
I have tried the exact same hotspot configuration with a giffgaff (O2) sim card and it works fine, so it must be Orange!

Unable to connect to college wi-fi, mobiles blocked

Hi guys,
Our college wi-fi has blocked Android, iPhone and Windows Phone users from connecting to the network. Laptops are able to connect fine. Upon noticing how they block devices, it turns out that they block the mac addresses, and they keep doing so even after changing mac address. Changing MAC address on a blocked laptop works, on mobiles, it doesn't.
What I understand is that the routers are blocking all mobile devices directly, is there any way I can change my android device to appear as a laptop? From all I've tried searching and understanding, with UPnP connections, this data about the device is trasmitted?
I would be very glad if anyone can help me out with this. Just for information, my mobile is a rooted Galaxy S Advance (i9070), and the routers are the Aruba 105s.

probably they identify devices by another method and not by mac.
write in google: "How knowing the device, carrier and connection" and you'll find the answers.

Mine problem is also the same but am using Windows phone.
So please suggest me something.

actually , in my university students with android phone are using psiphon app which bypass the browser login page (24online client) , when the university admins got to know this, they blocked android phones from connecting to router , later they blocked the software connecting to our ssid but they didnt blocked windows pc because our professors take attendance on their laptops , they need to connect inside online server to mark attendance and the windows mobiles are also connecting to router
my phone is moto g2 rooted , i tried changing the device name ,modified the p2p_suppli and wpa_suppli file in system\etc\wifi . but nothing worked , is there anyway for android mobiles to appear as windows pc , so that it will connect to router
please help
thanking in advance

Hack is the solution.
siddhulee said:
actually , in my university students with android phone are using psiphon app which bypass the browser login page (24online client) , when the university admins got to know this, they blocked android phones from connecting to router , later they blocked the software connecting to our ssid but they didnt blocked windows pc because our professors take attendance on their laptops , they need to connect inside online server to mark attendance and the windows mobiles are also connecting to router
my phone is moto g2 rooted , i tried changing the device name ,modified the p2p_suppli and wpa_suppli file in system\etc\wifi . but nothing worked , is there anyway for android mobiles to appear as windows pc , so that it will connect to router
please help
thanking in advance
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ITM University,Gurgaon ?

RoshanRon said:
ITM University,Gurgaon ?
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Yes, Correct! Any solution to this please? because its really annoying not being able to use the WiFi on phone.

not working
changing the host doest work. need to detect packet header info just sniff a single packet using wire shark and detect what info is travelling.
If any one want to work can mail me.
[email protected]

ICMP blocking
hello guys
As I came to know that there firewall is blocking the ICMP pinging request to the server that is handling the local request. so if some how we can mask the local IP and tunnel the network then we can easily use the internet without any rules applied with full bamdwidth .
You can mail me if any one wants to work on it.
[email protected]

Change your mac so it includes a different OUID
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joolli said:
Change your mac so it includes a different OUID
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MAC Address changes wont do much as stated previously

Bro my Asus ZenFone 2 is now rooted .
My problem is that . When i buy this phone before 9 months ago then i go to my college (KMC , Delhi University ) and surfing by colg wifi. But suddenly my wifi has been disconnected and from last 9 months this is not connecting. There is authentic problem show.(other wifi or colg wifi are easily connect) college wifi blocks me. Plz solve my problem. When i try to change my device name by emulator after rooting my android there show that "could not set property " . Plz solve bro

Galaxy S8 mobile hotsppt problem?

Hi
I got my s8 two days ago and I have a weird problem with the device. I'm trying to use the wifi hotspot but some devices can not connect to the network.
My old android phone and some other phones and laptops can use the connection but I busted my ass to connect my macbook pro to the hotspot but it's not possoble.
The network is visible but when I click on it to connect, it says "Move closer to the router" in mac and the connection is limited on windows. Some other devices can connect and use the network but that damn macbook is my primary device.
I'm out of ideas... can anybody please help?
Should I return the phone and get another one?

Anybody?!