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I want to wirelessly connect my phone to a laptop directly with ad-hoc, for the purpose of using programs like VNC. I have the option of teathering with mobile hot spot to accomplish this, but im wondering if there is a way that only gives local access to the laptop without internet access from the phone?
My actual idea, however, is to connect my phone to a battery powered Raspberry Pi, and use the phone as a screen and controls. But i figured i would start off with a windows based laptop to see how it works for that before i precede to linux.
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Does anyone know if it's possible to get internet from my computer to the vibrant via bluetooth? To be clear, I do NOT want 2G/3G on my computer, I want to share my LAN connection with my phone. I'm deployed to Iraq and I have a wired connection to my computer that I want to share with my phone. I've tried connectify and similar options but they don't seem to work. I've got XP and 7 on the laptop, so if there's an option for either it'll work.
Thanks in advance.
Using bluetooth would be slow. You'll want to create an adhoc wireless network on your computer. Here's how to in XP:
http://www.labnol.org/software/ad-hoc-wireless-network-in-windows-xp/11486/
Edit: This is, if you have wireless on your computer.
Maybe this is the incorrect forum, but I am looking for a way to share a wifi connection through a wifi connection. I am playing out tomorrow for vacation and would like to use the inflight wifi. However, I don't want to pay for my computer, my phone, and my wife's computer. Is there an app for Android that could connect to the inflight wifi and then share that connect via wifi (or maybe BlueTooth?) to our computers. Or maybe one of our computers (OS X or Windows 7) to connect via wifi and then share out that wifi?
Your Windows PC should be your safest bet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Connection_Sharing
Sharing Internet via wifi
i connected my blackberry bold 9780 to my laptop and i use it as a modem. i then used virtual router to share the 3G connection to my motorola xoom wifi. i can go online using google chrome just fine but all the other other apps, whether default or downloaded, refuse to connect online. im wondering if it's an adapter setting that i need to adjust or something. p,lease help. i am very frustrated at not bein able to use internet depending apps. it breaks my heart.
Hi guys, is there a way to pass through internet from a pc to the TouchPad?
Thanks.
that is more a question for your pc than for the TP.
So the TouchPad would read the internet data from a usb port?
Has anyone tried this and what software on the pc have you used? Thanks.
one bump but not looking hopeful
yes, it is called wireless router
Using a program called Connectify. Not via USB walkthrough but does create a infrastructure hotspot usable by touchpad. A bit convoluted but since touchpad will not recognize ad-hoc connections I've tethered my laptop to iphone, then used connectify to get touchpad on line.
Thanks for the reply. Everythings wired at my desk and mobile phone reception is 0-1 bars usually
Try that Connectify program. It will use your wired broadband connection on the desktop and make a hotspot that the Touchpad will connect to. It's got a free version that'll do what you need.
Thanks will check it out. When you say hotspot it sounds like wireless hotspot rather than usb? In that case there is nothing wireless on the pc....
Er, oops. Yeah, I guess it would need a wireless adapter to broadcast the hotspot! I was using this on my desktop with a wired internet connection so I assumed that we were in the same boat. Forgot I had a wireless card in it as well. My apologies.
Ok let me try to explain.
I DON'T want to use my 4g to do USB tendering. What I want is while my phone is connected to my home wifi I want to use that wifi that is on my phone and connect it to my laptop via USB tedering.
Reason being, my laptops wifi is messed up but not the lan. I don't want to use all my phone data so I want to grab the home Internet with my phone and use my phone as a direct line to my laptop without using 4g.
Hopefully I didn't confuse anyone. Does anyone know if there is a tool like that somewhere.
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Ok let me try to explain.
I DON'T want to use my 4g to do USB tendering. What I want is while my phone is connected to my home wifi I want to use that wifi that is on my phone and connect it to my laptop via USB tedering.
Reason being, my laptops wifi is messed up but not the lan. I don't want to use all my phone data so I want to grab the home Internet with my phone and use my phone as a direct line to my laptop without using 4g.
Hopefully I didn't confuse anyone. Does anyone know if there is a tool like that somewhere.
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if you enable the usb tethering, wifi will be turned off, the only way is to use lan cable. connect your laptop to your wifi modem with lan cable, it has at least one lan port.
I have a question about my M9.
I rebuilt my desktop last night and could not find any working wireless dongles in my house. So I was left to download my phone drivers, via my phone, and install them into my desktop so it recognised my phone. After this I enabled USB Tethering to go onto my internet.
The problem I noticed is that the phone was using my mobile data, rather than my Wi-Fi connection, despite being connected to Wi-Fi and enabled.
Is there any way to turn my mobile into a USB wireless dongle and stream it into my Desktop? Seems like smart phones ain't smart enough to just push the best "internet" connection, into my Desktop lmao! I'm a bit of noob when it comes to software coding so I understand it might be a pure limitation on the device which restricts it.