So I live in Scotland with Three mobile phone service, they have an all you can eat data plan which I currently use. Occasionally, when I travel to see family I need to have the ability to tether my phone as their rural broadband speed is only about 0.5mbps.
I've used PDAnet+ to tether, which masks when I go over my tether limit (8gb) but I always need to bring my latptop. I'd like to be able to connect my phone via USB to a travel router which allows USB tethering to share the connection but it still only allows me a tether limit of 8gb.
Will routing the phone and installing a rooting software allow me to mask my tethering via USB + Router or is this method only for phones where tethering menu option in settings has been disabled by the service provider?
Mickey
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I want to know how I can use wifi tether in 2.3.3 ..I am using thego2 ro and when I enables it my laptop knows thenetwork and conncts to it but it doesn't load any page..Do I must use an spacial app?I use pdanet and it works fine for me but it is free version and dont load https pages..and only works with usb..I have searched and found that barnacle wifi tether works for one of users does anybody else tested it?is this app free?I doesn't have access to market and If it works can someone upload it for me?
Thanks a lot for your help
I found barnacle wifi tether now and it doesnt works for me...native usb tethernow works fine for me but I cant use wireless tether..does my wireless must be on on phone?
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I want to know how I can use wifi tether in 2.3.3
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The 2.3.3 update provides the following that are fully functional:
USB Tethering - allows you to attach a single device via USB to allow it to access the Internet through your X10's WiFi or 3G data connection
Portable WiFi Hotspot - allows other WiFi-enabled devices to attach to your X10 via WiFi to allow them to access the Internet through your X10's 3G data connection
Go to Settings > Wireless & Networks > Tethering & Portable Hotspot to get to and set up those features.
For USB tethering, you'll need either a WiFi or 3G data connection available. For the portable WiFi hotspot, you need a 3G data connection available and the WiFi hardware must be on as well (since your X10 will become a WiFi router).
They work quite well, and they easily replace what we used to need 3rd-party apps for in the past.
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The 2.3.3 update provides the following that are fully functional:
USB Tethering - allows you to attach a single device via USB to allow it to access the Internet through your X10's WiFi or 3G data connection
Portable WiFi Hotspot - allows other WiFi-enabled devices to attach to your X10 via WiFi to allow them to access the Internet through your X10's 3G data connection
Go to Settings > Wireless & Networks > Tethering & Portable Hotspot to get to and set up those features.
For USB tethering, you'll need either a WiFi or 3G data connection available. For the portable WiFi hotspot, you need a 3G data connection available and the WiFi hardware must be on as well (since your X10 will become a WiFi router).
They work quite well, and they easily replace what we used to need 3rd-party apps for in the past.
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thanks for your help
Configure it first, set your password or change to open.
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I have been searching for this particular problem but I didn't find anywhere and seeking a solution here which I think is the most suitable place.
I want to tether Wi-Fi data and not the cellular data. Reason is that one can use Wi-Fi data freely from many other sources and like to use that in our laptop instead of the expensive cellular data.
I have figured out two methods, but that have their own limitations.
(i) One can use USB tether (easytether apps) to use wi-fi data. In this method the positive thing is that one can tether either of the data i.e. wi-fi data and cellular data. But the thing is that we need a cable always, once we use wifi hotspot then we only can use cellular data. In this method the disadnantage is we always need a cable and sometime it frequently gets disconnected.
(ii) Second method is using bluetooth one can tether the Wifi data. For example using Foxfi apps one can use Wi-fi data by activating Bluetooth DUN ( and there could be many more apps like Foxfi). But the disadvantage is internet is very slow even when the wifi data is high speed.
One obvious question is if I need wifi data then why do I need to tether through the phone. But there are situation when I can't connect the wifi directly due to some reason. Secondly, suppose the main wifi has got some proxy authentication but in my phone I could connect the same wifi but without the proxy authentication and if some how I tether that to laptop then I can connect internet directly without any proxy.
So I curious to know is there any way to tether the Wifi data (not the cellular data) using hotspot or any other way.
So I found an app that will allow you to create a WiFi Hotspot in infrastructure mode and not ad-hoc. The phone itself needs to be rooted in order to bypass your carrier's network authentication and set itself up as a WiFi Hotspot setting, but any devices you are trying to connect to the Hotspot will not have to be rooted. The name is WiFi Tether Router and is in the play store. It is a very very useful app. The encryption works lol and so many other things as well. You'll just have to see for yourself! I was able to use it successfully on a my non-rooted Asus tablet connecting to my rooted 4G LTE phone. Worked flawlessly and I didn't have to change hardly any configuration settings, only just the network ssid and password and the channel, but other than that it was great. It also has a data monitor to show data sent and received and total amount of data used, along with managing the clients connected to the Hotspot. Enjoy!
Is it possible?
dd-wrt allows you to create these. I was wondering if it is possible and if so can you do it where your running the hotspot app for other users and connecting to another wifi access point which is your phones default route. the other users are routed through the phone data.
For example I'm at work and visting person asks "can I get internet access" and you say "corp policy is not to allow you but you can jump on a hotspot" and you enable your hotspot for him through your phone but your phone is connected to corpwlan1. your default route is out to cropwlan1 for your phone but the visitors default route is out your phone data connection via hotspot from cell provider.
all this is done on the phone. phone only no other hardware. (unless you can plug a usb wifi adapter into the mirco sd port of the phone with an otg adapter)
This may seem like a dumb question but... is there a way or an app to essentially turn on WiFi hotspot feature so that I can make an ad-hoc LAN but NOT let all the devices connected access the internet?
Example: I enable WiFi hotspot on my phone. I still have a cellular data connection so I can browse the web, stream music, etc. but any other device that connect to my phone's hotspot does NOT get my data connection, they are just on the LAN the built in android hotspot creates.
I don't want to let other users "run up" my data usage but I want the other users when they connect to my hotspot to be all on one network.
I have a bootloader unlocked Motorola Moto X (original, 2013) and rooted and I use Tasker. Maybe after I enable the hotspot feature I could modify some IP tables via a Tasker app to "enable/disable" internet blocking.
Or maybe there's an app out there for this? I suppose another alternative would be disable mobile data and then enable hotspot (if that's even allowed) but the pitfall there is then my phone doesn't have internet either.
Thanks,
Mike