I can mirror cast to my amazon fire stick on a regular network, but all my Internet is through my phone's hotspot. I would like to be able to mirror my screen through the hotspot without having to reconnect both devices to a local network. It seems probable, ive used other apps that view my phone hosting the hotspot as another device on the network. Any ideas?
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If you don't know how to make an ad hoc network, just search "how to" on whatever OS you're running. But anyways I had the idea to get my phone, ps3,and laptop on my high speed internet connection without a router. First thought was a reverse USB tether and then broadcast it to ps3....but it seems impossible on my cm7 gingerbread vibrant.(btw, no one bothered answering my post for help). So technically you don't even need to create an ad hoc network. I allowed sharing from my wired local network connection to my wireless connection on the laptop. Then enabled the wifi hotspot ability on my phone, did custom connection and picked up "AndroidAP" on my ps3 wireless connection, made sure that it aquired an IP but didn't care about internet just yet. I then connected the laptop to the "AndroidAP" access point under available wireless networks. Waited a minute and I see my computer as a media server on my ps3. Open the browser on the ps3 and voila! Online connection tested at 6.4 mbps download and a 2.8 Mbps upload. The phone acted as a wireless bridge but isn't drawing any data from it because the hotspot ability is for sharing....so now I need to figure out how to tap into the love on the phone.
If you haven't figured it out, you can get everything online in your house without buying a wireless router. This is a homemade access point that's super easy!
I can do it over wi-fi with samba or DLNA but I'm wondering if doing it via hotspot will consume data. I doubt it but I'm not sure. With the Inspire I could turn off mobile internet and still use hotspot, with the sgs4 I must connect to the Internet to use the hotspot.
Is it possible to use the portable hotspot feature on the nexus 4 to create a LAN? ie. Chromecast without a wifi network. The idea being that you set up a LAN on the N4, which Chromecast connects to, without needing a wifi network.
Hi guys. This might be a silly question, but here goes.
I am currently staying in a hotel with my family abroad. Each room gets only one username and password for their Wi-Fi network. Once used, no other device can use that username and password. The problem is that there are 3 devices in the room.
I was wondering if I could use that connection on my note 3 and wirelessly tether the connection to everyone else.
I have managed to do this through Bluetooth tethering to a note tablet, but the third device is my dad's iPad so I don't think that's gonna work. My best bet is Wi-Fi tethering to him.
Wireless tethering is disabled when I'm connected to the Wi-Fi network, so I guess my best bet is an app.
Is this possible, and how?
You can use wifi hot spot on your device if iirc, then run the other devices via the Note.
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If you have a laptop, you could connect to the wifi through your phone, and then tether your phone to the laptop via USB. Then install a hotspot program on the laptop to enable other devices to connect to the laptop, as if it were a router.
Galaxy S4 on CM13...if it matters
So here's my predicament. I've been using my S4 connected to Xfinity wifi as ethernet to my laptop then have my laptop set as a wifi hotspot for my other devices. I no longer have an Xfinity account but my old LG Leon is still active in their system for some reason, so I've changed the MAC on my S4 to meet the leons (Leon has broken screen) until they finally decide to drop it. Then I use MHotspot to allow my other devices to use the net. Convoluted way of doing things, but it works...sorta.
Problem is the data stream from MHotspot is super slow at 0.5-1.5mbps on Speedtest to my other devices (with only one connected to the hotspot) while the PC gets around 15mbps. However if I use the free hour directly from the PC WiFi and enable MHotspot to leech that connection, my other devices get full speed.
What gives? Any insight?
dragonhart6505 said:
Galaxy S4 on CM13...if it matters
So here's my predicament. I've been using my S4 connected to Xfinity wifi as ethernet to my laptop then have my laptop set as a wifi hotspot for my other devices. I no longer have an Xfinity account but my old LG Leon is still active in their system for some reason, so I've changed the MAC on my S4 to meet the leons (Leon has broken screen) until they finally decide to drop it. Then I use MHotspot to allow my other devices to use the net. Convoluted way of doing things, but it works...sorta.
Problem is the data stream from MHotspot is super slow at 0.5-1.5mbps on Speedtest to my other devices (with only one connected to the hotspot) while the PC gets around 15mbps. However if I use the free hour directly from the PC WiFi and enable MHotspot to leech that connection, my other devices get full speed.
What gives? Any insight?
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Wifi hotspot connection is not the same as a wired ethernet. In a wifi network, all devices will be sharing the available bandwidth. If your bandwidth for instance is 54mbps, it means all devices connected to your wifi network will be sharing this bandwidth. The more devices, the less bandwidth. And even if it is a mixed network of a/b/g/n, the network will perform at the pace of the slowest device. But in an ethernet network and if you're using a switch but not a hub, all devices will have the same bandwidth of the ethernet network, either 10mbps, 100mbps, 1000mbps depending on your switch capability and cabling used.