Hi everyone
This may sound like an odd question but we need to block our daughter from accessing the Internet and playing games when she should be doing her schoolwork. We’ve tried blocking UPNP to stop her gaming but it hasn’t worked, and as she does need occasional Internet access totally blocking her (which I can easily do from our BT Homehub 2) isn’t really an option and doesn’t always work.
The problem with completely blocking her is that there’s an open unsecured wifi network nearby which she’s apparently hooking up to if we disconnect her from ours.
So, without taking her laptop off her (which she does actually need) is there any way we can block her from accessing the other network? If I knew who’s it was I’d advise them that it’s unsecured and ask them to fix it, but I don’t.
A colleague in work suggested setting up a wifi hotspot on an Android phone and giving it the same name as the other network (or even as ours), and as the signal from the phone would be stronger, her laptop would probably logon to the Android hotspot instead. As mobile data’s generally slower than wifi it may also be too slow for her gaming. I can’t try this as I don’t have an Android phone, but if it was likely to work I’d buy one - Carphone Warehouse have an Alcatel Android phone for about £30 which can be used as a hotspot.
Does anyone know if there’s any way of setting up a hotspot without actually having a connection to the Internet, via Android or otherwise?
It’s becoming a game of minds now between us and our daughter, and we sort of need to let her know we’re the parents, but without coming down too hard or her just yet.
Thanks.
Sam
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Hey everyone,
Searched for an hour about this and read tons of posts that talked about Droid phones and some others, but nothing that seemed to apply to mine.
I am wondering if it is possible to tether my old Samsung Hue phone to my G tablet? I live pretty far out into the country, and this is the best way I have to get internet access. The Hue EVDO connection is always pretty fast and much better than the Hughesnet satellite connection I had before.
Is it something that can be done? If so, please let me know which ROM would be best for this application.
Appreciate any and all help!
Willy
I have a Tilt2 running windows mobile 6.5 and have tethered successfully using a tethering program found in the tilt2 section of xda.
Also winmo here......buy wifirouter for winmo
Samsung Hue is not a smartphone. Not going to be able to WiFi tethering.
Only going to be able to do USB tethering. While the G-Tab can act as a USB host, I don't know if it has all of the kernel modules and networking components necessary to do this. (What basically amounts to dial up networking)
You might consider getting a MiFi type device from your carrier (Alltel? Now Verizon?). Then you could do WiFI tethering through EvDo that way.
Same here - I want to tether using my Cricket Samsung Messager Touch via DUN when mobile. I know it can be done cause we mess with cellular connecting devices (GSM - at&t) at work, but I have no knowledge of the inner workings of linux/android, or the dial-up scripts needed for US-Cellular/Cricket.
Add my name to the list! I want to do Bluetooth tethering so when I'm on the road I can use my phones 3G service to get internet on my tablet.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pdanet.tablet
For those of us with honeycomb tablets, you may want to have data everywhere you go on it. But you don't want to hack your phone, cause you just got it on a two year contract. And the carrier price is WAY to expensive, and not unlimited. This is the problem my uncle had when we gave him an Android tablet. With his Evo 4G, he should have data everywhere he goes, and that is where this app comes in.
Advantages.
Its Bluetooth, so no rooting required, if both devices have Bluetooth that is *cough* kindle fire doesn't *cough*
Since its Bluetooth, it doesn't show up to every wifi device within 30 feet of you, and is secured to only work with properly setup devices
Unlike PdaNet for computer tethering, this one is completely free (so is hotspot, but that needs root)
Disadvantages
Bluetooth isn't the fastest method for tethering, but since wifi hotspot is slower than the data you get using the phone, it works out to be about the same. Still a factor though
You need to have data on both devices to get the app in the first place.
It is required of you to set a proxy in order to use this (the proxy is coming from your phone, your data isn't being watched by this app, just Sprint and Carrier IQ )
You need to clear this proxy in order to use normal wifi every time, which can be tedious
As it stands, this is a great method for unlimited data for your tablet without having to void your phone's warrenty. What do you guys think, would this be enough for you to not need to root every phone you get? Can't hurt to find out can it?
I can confirm this works with the Evo Shift, and Evo 4G as servers, and with the Acer Iconia Tab a100 as the client.
I have tried searching for an application for windows or android that will allow the reception of my sgs2 to be shown on my laptop or tablet.
Now this might sound silly but if I use my phone as a hotspot and leave it in my pocket then it would be great to see the reception or even speed of connection on the device that is grabbing the internet. At the moment I am blind whether there is a data connection unless I turn the the sgs2 screen on.
I'm guessing there is not an existing application for this but its probably possible, but is not likely to be in the near future huh?
I love my phone and have no plans to upgrade it. I haven't ever tried to root and don't plan to. It is totally stock. At the moment it is freshly reset using the recovery mode and not the reset option from with the settings menu.
For many months I have been having wifi issues. Now, it won't work at all. I've seen various suggestions online to try and nothing helps. At the moment my cell phone service with Verizon is suspsended cause we are broke and couldn't pay. It will wait until the first of the month. My Verizon Note Pro tablet is also on our plan and therefore without Verizon connectivity and it connects to the wifi just fine. My phone should be able to also. My husbands cell phone connects and stays connected like a champ. Also, the wifi is out of our control. We live full time in our rv and the rv park provides the wifi. I mention problems to them and they automatically say its not their hardware/software, it's ours. Or they say to call the ISP.
I am including a screen shot from the phone to show what my versions of things are. Anyone know how to fix this? I'm even willing to go so far as to take it apart. I'm not a newbie handling the hardware, I've done laptop repairs and have the tools. I don't especially want to take it apart because that does up the risk factor of totally breaking it once and for all but, I do have another phone to fall back on if my note 2 totally tanks it. Thus far my only problem is this stupid wifi connectivity issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Screenshot_2016-09-19-15-32-32 by Victoria Kirkpatrick, on Flickr
I have been an Apple user since BlackBerry died with their BlackBerry 10 OS. I have actually never touched an Android phone or even checked the OS and I don’t know someone with an Android to test stuff.
I was looking for a mobile hotspot (MiFi) device and these things are not just as expensive as good Android phones but also not good for many reasons as being limited to a few bands making them good for use in a region but not the other and I do travel often and the fact all it does is be a hotspot.
I was thinking Pixel 5 or Pixel 6/6a but I wanted to know how is Pixel when it comes to doing hotspot.
I ask because iOS suck at it because:
It times out when traffic stops and turns off and no way to stop that from happening
iOS devices which is what we mainly use, won’t sync with iCloud if connected to an iOS hotspot
iOS forces AP Isolation meaning devices connected to a hotspot can’t cross communicate over local network or see each other (which is bad for streaming devices like Google TV/Apple TV)
Carriers can easily enforce a limit on number of devices connected or even disable hotspot altogether but I heard this is not as easy for carriers to do on unlocked Android phones, and also can still be gotten around with third party apps without root (?)
I’d expect a Pixel can give advantage over a mobile hotspot device because I can use phone data plans and not be restricted to just mobile hotspot/tablets data plans. It also is a phone so serves as a backup phone.
So my question is:
How is the hotspot feature on Pixel 5/6
Is there any speed restrictions or they fast as data comes in
Is AP Isolation forced or can it be disabled
I believe I can disable the auto timeout, right?
What is the maximum number of devices can be connected at once over WiFi?
Is 5 GHz stable on it? I know it isn’t on iPhone 13 Pro Max
1. It serves me pretty well. A12/13 is pretty vague in the settings :/
2. I've been able to pull my full cell bandwidth through hotspot, though I tend to stick to PDAnet as this hides my limited hotspot usage. It is slower but worth.
3. TBH I've never heard of AP Isolation, I just assumed it created one WAP.
4. I've never tried but I imagine as many as one subnet can fit (so 255? But tell me you'll have over 10 and I'll be impressed)
5. Yep! Though I tend to keep to 2.4GHz as this lets me sling off of 5GHz wifi networks as well.
Works pretty good for me, if you're root and want to get a few extra functionality you might want to try out vpn hotspot