I was wondering if anyone on VZW new unlimited plan who relies on Mobile Hotspot for their home (multiple devices) to try if this works. The idea is to turn your phone into a "Internet Service Provider" [figure speech] and share the internet with your other devices without being throttled after using those 15GB for your mobile hotspot allowance. I believe it could be accomplished with 4 items:
1- A USB type C to Ethernet adapter like this one
2- A Router (perhaps a dual band router but not really necessary)
3- PDANet App and activate USB Tethering from it
4- An Ethernet Cable to connect the adapter to the Router
From previous experience using PDANet, I was able to provide internet to my laptop from which I created a LAN and utilized a Cat5 cable to get my PS3 connected to play online since I didn't have a router. It appeared that I was using regular data instead of tethering.
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Hello all.
Several questions:
1. Can the ppc 6800 be used as a wifi router WITHOUT having a data plan? In other words, can the phone connect to an existing pc which is connected to the internet via cable connection (modem and or both modem/non-wireless router) and transmit the internet cable connection through the phone to another wifi enabled device (i.e. the wii or a wifi enabled laptop) without using an existing data (i.e. evdo) plan?
2. Can the ppc 6800 be used to both:
a. Transmit a bluetooth signal and wireless internet connection to the wii without having an existing data plan on the phone?
In summary, I am trying to find out a way to use the ppc 6800 to act as a bluetooth dongle and internet connection for the wii without having to purchase either a bluetooth device (i.e. usb bt drive) or wireless router.
Let me know if there are any solutions out there.
Thanks.
If you use wmwifi router you can use it as a wireless acess point if that's what you mean, but about the data plan thing- No you don't need a data plan butit will use your minutes.
the wii is not compatible with wmwifirouter, i had tried it and searched for why the wii couldnt connect but it saw my phone, it says it on the wmwifirouter site and an incompatible device.
I'm buying a TV with an ethernet port which has the feature of streaming via the net. Can I tether my phone to my PC and have the TV pull a signal from my PC using my phone as a modem? How would one do this?
Thanks!
this could be done using a pc and internet connection sharing or a cradlepoint router.
however, it will also be a great way to burn so much data usage to get your account suspended, warned or charged for overage.
Ive used massive amounts of data without being warned. In fact,Ive ran bit torrent. There is no way that I have not gone over the limit some month using the phone as my primary internet connection.
Im not entirely sure what the OP is asking,but here is what I know. You can use your phone as an internet connection in several ways. The easiest is using a hack to connect via USB or bluetooth. I have found this to be very unreliable. You can use a third party program to do the same thing as well. I use a program called PDA net which works much more reliably. You can also use hacks or third party programs to connect via wifi.
Your phone will provide a connection similar to slower DSL lines. You can expect 800-1200k downloads and 150-300k downloads (your millage may vary here,but that's what I have gotten in Ohio and Utah)
If you want to connect to an ethernet device there are a few options. You can use programs allow your phone to share over wifi and create an adhoc network. You can also connect your phone to an access point and then configure your network devices default gateways to point to the phone instead of the access point.
I tried to search but couldn't find definitive answer. My issue is opposite to general trend to switch off mobile and use wifi only.
I have apple TV without any internet connection (i.e. no modem connected to it) which I use to steam video/audio and it acts as an AP. I use Twonky on G-Tab (P1000) and it requires wifi for it to work. OK, fine. It does work on wifi and steams to Apple TV no issues, but as long as I am connected to wifi network, I can't use internet on my Tab (as I quoted above, my this Apple TV AP wireless network is without any internet connection, so I can't have net over it unless I buy a wired ADSL modem along with data plan and then connect it ti Apple TV). I have a reasonable mobile data plan on Tab's SIM and it works all time, except when I connect to any wireless network. Here's the catch, dumb Samsung thought that all and each wirless network always has internet connection or if there is a wireless network, it must have had internet connection! But anyway, this annoying behaviour prevents me from accessing net over mobile data plan as long as I am connected to any wifi network, be it has internet or not.
I tried and serached and also explored setting on my rooted tab, but no luck?
Any thing am I missing?
i have asked the same question here lla while back. its not possible to enable both wifi and mobile data at the same time
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mmbika said:
Here's the catch, dumb Samsung thought that all and each wirless network always has internet connection or if there is a wireless network, it must have had internet connection! But anyway, this annoying behaviour prevents me from accessing net over mobile data plan as long as I am connected to any wifi network, be it has internet or not.
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It's not so much dumb Samsung, as just the way Android works.
The following link details how this can be achieved, but only by modifying AOSP source and recompiling Android from scratch.
http://mobisocial.stanford.edu/news...together-by-hacking-connectivityservice-java/
Can't you do it the other way around by enabling a mobile hotspot to your Tab, and connecting your Apple TV to this instead?
Regards,
Dave
Yes, that would be the final option to use tab as MobileAP which would be a forced one, not a choice.
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Ok, so I am looking at different options for reducing my bills and one of them is to get rid of the Verizon FIOS and replace it with the T-mobile service I am already paying for by replacing one of the lines with a mobile hotspot.
I have the Magicjack phone service now and it works fine however it requires an ethernet connection to the internet. I currently have it plugged into a Hub which is connected to the FIOS router. If I lose the router how would I be able to pickup the internet signal from the hotspot and get it to the ethernet connection of the magicjack???
(without plugging it into a computer which would require leaving the computer on all the time)
I've seen articles/posts about reverse tethering (getting internet from PC to phone) and obviously regular Bluetooth and Wi-Fi tethering...
Say my home ISP service is down for some reason and I want to use some of my mobile data in the house temporarily.
Is there a way to get tethering setup so internet from mobile phone LTE gets sent out the USB, through a micro-USB OTG adapter, to a USB-to-Ethernet adapter, and then run an Ethernet cable from the adapter to my WAN port on my wireless router? Then all my wired and wireless devices can get internet access through the router so it handles DHCP and all that and the phone just tethers to the WEB interface of the router.
I know I can do the reverse of this, hard-wire Ethernet into my phone if for some reason I didn't have Wi-Fi or cellular connections. How about the opposite?
My phone is unlocked, rooted, and I'm pretty decent at editing config files if necessary!
More research shows maybe I'm better off using usb tethering to a usb port on the router and running dd-wrt. Or setting up router add a client bridge and using Wi-Fi tether instead of cable connection.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2136816
Hmm...