Is there a way to use my Captivate as a wireless router? - Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

The internet at my apartment is terrible and wireless routers seem to not works which forces me to use a wired connection for everything. This is annoying and I'd like to be on the couch or in the living room with my laptop. Is there a way that the captivate could set up a wifi hotspot via 3g? I've heard that this is possible on other phones, and I imagine it might be on the captivate, but I don't know how.
My phone is rooted and side load ready if that helps things.

Btonic said:
The internet at my apartment is terrible and wireless routers seem to not works which forces me to use a wired connection for everything. This is annoying and I'd like to be on the couch or in the living room with my laptop. Is there a way that the captivate could set up a wifi hotspot via 3g? I've heard that this is possible on other phones, and I imagine it might be on the captivate, but I don't know how.
My phone is rooted and side load ready if that helps things.
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Yes...Look in the Dev forum for the SRE v1.2.1a thread..These is a zip file to enable Mobile AP which will give you wireless tethering and usb tethering...

http://code.google.com/p/android-wi...?name=wireless_tether_2_0_5-pre8.apk&can=2&q=

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Tilt to wireless router to laptop

Sorry if this is a repeat question. I looked through the archive, but couldn't find this question.
I haven't bought the Tilt yet, but what I want to be able to do is take a Tilt have it be connected to the 3G network and then connect to my wireless router as well. From there I would connect my laptop to the same wireless router but somehow use the 3G internet connection on the laptop. Is this easily doable?
I want to do this since when I get home I want to just keep the phone in one location where I get good reception and then be able to use my laptop where ever I move it in my house without having to move the phone and risk losing connection.
I will be buying a tethering plan.
Thanks for the help.
haven't tried this but i think u should be able to if u have internet sharing enabled.
Does the tilt come with internet sharing?
yes
but let me get this straight, you want to connect it this way
3G->tilt->router->pc
why do that when you can do
3G->tilt->pc
search for ics control, or wmwifirouter
Yes I was thinking the first way. I am not opposed to the second way, but I was curious how much range will a tilt give me as far as broadcasting on wifi?
I often watch tv in my basement and wasn't sure if the tilt wifi would be able to travel as well as my router which has an external antenae. Range was the only reason I introduce the router. It seems wmwifirouter may support what I want to do.
Well considering the phone can follow the laptop anywhere I would say range isn't a question. It's all wireless with batterys

AP Mode

Anyone have a clue, how to get this working in the hero? Adhoc just doesn't cut it.
not going to happen, the hardware does not support it.
what device or os won't join ad hoc? Ive even had ipod touch's joined to my ad hoc hero wifi network. I know windows, mac and linux will all join ad hoc too, so wtf?
Low cost Android tablets are having a lot of trouble joining ad hoc.
Ps3, or other phones
Psp! And yeah, other phones wont connect to ad-hocs either. But not being able to use game consoles is a major buzzkill.
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DSL Internet? I know you already pay for your data but come on, gaming on it? Or are you counting on the lagginess to get you better KDR on mw2?
animal7296 said:
DSL Internet? I know you already pay for your data but come on, gaming on it? Or are you counting on the lagginess to get you better KDR on mw2?
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Only people who have played that sad campfest they call a game would understand how funny this comment is.
Gaming on evdo is ridiculous, but if you must do it you could always just use a pc/netbook/laptop to share the wireless connection over wired Ethernet to the console.
tethered internet from a hero is tolerable but I couldn't imagine trying to use it as a primary/only internet connection for any length of time.
why would you connect other phones to a wifi tether? each phone should already have a data plan so i don't get the point..
ipfreelytech said:
Gaming on evdo is ridiculous, but if you must do it you could always just use a pc/netbook/laptop to share the wireless connection over wired Ethernet to the console.
tethered internet from a hero is tolerable but I couldn't imagine trying to use it as a primary/only internet connection for any length of time.
why would you connect other phones to a wifi tether? each phone should already have a data plan so i don't get the point..
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Yeah its pretty obvious you don't.
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I have been able to setup my Linksys WRT54G with dd-wrt firmware flashed and have it use my phone's data and broadcast it through the router. The router is not inadhoc mode. I had to keep tweaking with all the settings to get it to work like I wanted. There are 2 reasons that I would not do it on a regular basis, especially if you are trying to play networked games.
1. The phone becomes really hot if you do not have it in front of a fan and can fry your phone
2. The download speed may be intermediate depending on where you are and the time of day, but the upload speeds can be very slow. Considering a majority of gamers have 6Mbs down and somewhere around 512Kbs - 1Mb up you will be falling behind.

[Q] MobileAP/X-Box Live Compatibility?

Hey guys, I'm a long time lurker, first time thread-starter, and I hope there is a simple solution to this.
This is more of a proof-of-concept question, and since the PS3 is capable of connecting to a tethering application I figured an XB could as well.
Recently, I updated my Captivate's ROM to the SREv1.3.1c (it was the ROM before he renamed it to Cognition). One of the added benefits was the addition of the Mobile Access POint, which is way better than PDANet in my opinion, but I digress.
Anyway, I've managed to turn the AP on and get it to connect to a PS3 with no issues and very little lag, which was awesome. However, the XBox is being a pain in the ***. i can go to my network connections on the XB, and my wireless attachment "sees" the connection just fine. It also connects and pulls both a IP and DNS server address. I even get 5 bars of great signal.
But when I run a XBL test, when it tries to connect to the internet it craps the bed and does nothing. Now, I've seen people get XBL to connect over similar tethering apps, even PDANet with its shaky connection issues, but I can't seem to figure this one out. As far as I can tell, maybe 3G has too high of a latency to be compatable, but I figured I'd ask the experts of XDA. Can anyone help?
Did I forget to say please or something? Any pointers?
Hey just wondering what is your configuration. like are you connecting with wi-fi from the phone, do you have a laptop to use? that is one of the easiest ways. or are you just usb direct into the console?
Well presently I'm using MobileAP which broadcasts a wifi signal that my laptop can pick up (it's how I'm typing this at the moment as well). It can be seen, like I said, but the XB won't get past the internet part of the diagnostic test.
I also had PDAnet installed a while ago so I know how to usb tether but couldnt get that to work on XBL either.

[Q]Is it possible to bluetooth tether?

I'm currently running Assonance 5 and I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to tether using bluetooth. I have done a few searches to no avail. Has anyone had luck with this?
jojorios said:
I'm currently running Assonance 5 and I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to tether using bluetooth. I have done a few searches to no avail. Has anyone had luck with this?
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With the growth of WiFi in cellphones, why would one need bluetooth tethering
rickysa2000 said:
With the growth of WiFi in cellphones, why would one need bluetooth tethering
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better security and battery life with bluetooth i'd think
oh and also, you could stay connected to a wifi network on the phone while being bluetooth tethered, thus giving that wifi access to your laptop. i know this seems useless because most laptops have wifi too, but your phone has implicit access to att's wifi hotspots at say, starbucks and the airport, which you can't get onto with a laptop unless you pay extra.
Yeah, my main reasoning is for battery life of both.

[Q] USB Tether Passthrough

Well, I've done some digging around and can't really find anything specific so I thought I'd ask..
The stock USB tethering built-in to Froyo & GB.. I was wondering if it was possible to use it for, let's say VNC?
I tried to connect in to a computer that was tethered to my phone using VNC.. But it didn't work, connecting out seems to be just fine but using my phone's internet to HOST the connection wasn't workin..
It's probably a Tmo port thing, but I was just curious if it was controlled with the app itself?
its most likely the way the tethering works, it sort of makes the phone act as a router at home works, it acts as the central point to your modem and then assigns everything behind it in its own network its own address. if you check the ip of the pc that is connected to your phone youre probably going to show 192.168 something. whatever tethering method youre using would need to incorporate some sort of port forwarding so you can direct the vnc traffic to the pc that is tethered to the phone. i use my phone to tether a bit while im out on the road and as you say, i can remote out a lot and quite freely, i cant see really if this would be reliable at all to connect into the pc that is tethered since the cell networks can go in and out and will probably pretty frequently change the ip address of the phone. ive never really kept track of my phones cell network ip...

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