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How can I connect to Ethernet?

I have a Tilt and expect to stay in a hotel that has Internet access via Ethernet, but no WiFi.
Any ideas on how to best connect my Tilt to their Ethernet?
First idea is maybe a WiFi travel router or AP like the DWL-6730AP, but I hate the idea of carrying along extra equipment when the whole point of the Tilt is to avoid bringing my laptop.
Is there some sort of Ethernet-to-USB dongle?

The Tilt has Ethernet support native. Go to settings, select Wifi & switch to NE2000 Compatible Ethernet Driver.

capite said:
I have a Tilt and expect to stay in a hotel that has Internet access via Ethernet, but no WiFi.
Any ideas on how to best connect my Tilt to their Ethernet?
First idea is maybe a WiFi travel router or AP like the DWL-6730AP, but I hate the idea of carrying along extra equipment when the whole point of the Tilt is to avoid bringing my laptop.
Is there some sort of Ethernet-to-USB dongle?
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1. welcome to xda-devs
2. there is no memory card- or USB-based Ethernet interface for the Kaiser, sorry. Ethernet cards have only been produced as CF cards.

You could use something like a Linksys (or any brand, for that matter) WiFi router to do the trick and then connect to it.
You may run into an issue, though, because most hotels have an entry page where you have to accept their terms of service (yes, even the free ones do this) before getting out to the internet. It is possible that your router will not forward that properly to your phone, or that PIE won't render it properly and you won't be able to finish the signup.
Also note that unless you have something like a WRT54G Linksys router with custom firmware (like DD-WRT), you will be double-NATted, which may, in itself, cause problems.
@GSLEON3 - sure, the IP stack in the Tilt supports Ethernet, but you have to get Layer 1 out of the way first - the physical layer. If you can't physically connect an ethernet cable to the phone, how are you gonna get to the internet?
A lot of hotels have WiFi bridges so that you can use wireless-only devices on their network. Maybe they have one available? Then again, now that I think about it, maybe not. I'm thinking of the other way around where you don't have WiFi in your laptop and they only have WiFi, not ethernet connections. Nevermind. It's late...

I *think* this might work.....
Eithernet-to-USB cable
(http://www.ipenabled.com/netusb.html)
Then patch to a female-female USB coupler (http://www.revealcable.co.uk/acatalog/info_1_AA1582.html)
Then connect that to your normal PC sync cable.
Eithernet at one end, microUSB at the other.

The USB on the Kaiser doesn't work that way. It can act like a client (think ext. hard drive) but not a host (your PC). It's the same reason you can't connect an external hard drive to your phone.

capite said:
I have a Tilt and expect to stay in a hotel that has Internet access via Ethernet, but no WiFi.
Any ideas on how to best connect my Tilt to their Ethernet?
First idea is maybe a WiFi travel router or AP like the DWL-6730AP, but I hate the idea of carrying along extra equipment when the whole point of the Tilt is to avoid bringing my laptop.
Is there some sort of Ethernet-to-USB dongle?
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I use the 3COM Travel Router (3CRTV10075/WL-534) as its a small portable router with NAT and Firewall (stops others in the hotel from seeing your devices). It can be configured as Router, AP or Client so that in AP mode it will connect directly to the Ethernet connection in a hotel room and you have access for both your phone and laptop.

Thanks for the welcome and the ideas, everybody!
It's a shame the USB port won't work for an Internet connection. Has anyone ever tried just in case?
I guess it's a travel router then, I'll go with the 3Com unless anyone can confirm they have used the tiny Netgear WGR101 successfully.

Is the microSD conector I/O capable?? If so, we can plug there normal ethernet card....

[Q]Bionic + Router + External PS

Hello Bionic Community,
I pay for the mobile hotspot feature from Verizon and use it as my dedicated internet for my home. I have the phone connected to a sapido router and use USB tethering to distribute internet to everything at my house.
The connection is great!! The only problem that I notice is, is that if I stream a movie or video chat with someone, the battery on the phone takes a hit.
Is there a way to USB tether the phone and connect the phone to the wall power supply so that the battery does not drain so fast? I've investigated using a USB y-cable, but am scared to do this as I don't want to fry my phone or router.
What do you guys think? Can this even be done?

In theory you can ditch the whole cable to phone. What you could do is take the phone and wirelessly tether it to the router so that the router becomes a repeater then just plug whatever Ethernet cables you want into the router to give it a hard line connection. To do this you need a Lynksis (Cisco) router that has the option of becoming a wireless repeater, if yours does great. Google how to set up a wireless repeater.
What you can also do is what my friends and I do on the road. If you have an old laptop that has xp-or up ( i havent tested 8 yet) you could tether you phone to computer then in the wireless connections settings set it to where the computer is used to access the internet. Then send that connection out to a router. Also remember whenever you are using a 3g connection AND charging at the same time your phone will get extremely hot. Use an app to keep an eye on the temp. Good luck and happy tethering

I feel your pain, I think the best option would be, as waffleb051 described, usb tether to pc then share internet connection from that pc, windows ICS, so that you are charging the phone & also tethering 3g/4g from your phone. But beware of the battery temp.
I wish a smartphone would function like a laptop while charger is connected, it would draw the power directly from charger instead of drawing through the battery.
Just out of curiosity, how much data you are using per month for the whole house, on average?

I have been doing this for years except that my phone is rooted so I don't have to pay the rip-off fee of $30/mo for tethering.
I use an old Vista PC with a wifi usb adapter and then use ICS to share the Internet connection to my entire network (7 users). Then I just plug the phone into the phone's charger and let it rip. There have been no problems even when I leave it all connected for five days straight. Using the wifi option keeps the phone from getting too hot. Be sure to turn off features like GPS because if too many things are running, you may end up pulling more power than the charger can keep up with.
I run 20-30 gigs per month with no problem at all. And no slow downs or calls from big red.
I did try to set up my Belkin router as a repeater but it did not see the phone and thus, did not work. Not all repeaters will work.

.....I forgot the mention that android as of now cannot connect to and ad-hoc network so the router idea might be out, I will test it tonight and post results
Sent from my DROID BIONIC using XDA App

I am currently on day 22 of 29 on my cycle and I'm currently at 45 gigs. Sometimes I hit 80 if I watch a lot of movies / justin.tv. I use more data because I chose to cut the cable cord... this is how I justify to myself spending the extra $30 per month for the mobile hotspot feature.
I would have gone with the wireless tether feature, but for some reason, this is not stable for me. My copy of the bionic will reboot every hour or so when in wifi tether mode. I've used both the built in wifi tether option, as well as the wireless tether for root users. Any ideas to increase stability?
I agree that a better option would be to tether through a computer, but the sapido router is cheaper, lower power usage and has a pretty powerful wifi radio. I also understand that they make a portable version of the router. Maybe this portable version would be better to tether compared to a laptop?
The phone does get hot when I tether, but not that hot; even when I'm video conferencing. I'm thinking if the phone can get enough juice from the usb connection somehow, then the battery can be removed during extended need of the internet. Maybe someone knows of a battery AC adapter or something??
Thanks!

calimansi said:
I am currently on day 22 of 29 on my cycle and I'm currently at 45 gigs. Sometimes I hit 80 if I watch a lot of movies / justin.tv. I use more data because I chose to cut the cable cord... this is how I justify to myself spending the extra $30 per month for the mobile hotspot feature.
I would have gone with the wireless tether feature, but for some reason, this is not stable for me. My copy of the bionic will reboot every hour or so when in wifi tether mode. I've used both the built in wifi tether option, as well as the wireless tether for root users. Any ideas to increase stability?
I agree that a better option would be to tether through a computer, but the sapido router is cheaper, lower power usage and has a pretty powerful wifi radio. I also understand that they make a portable version of the router. Maybe this portable version would be better to tether compared to a laptop?
The phone does get hot when I tether, but not that hot; even when I'm video conferencing. I'm thinking if the phone can get enough juice from the usb connection somehow, then the battery can be removed during extended need of the internet. Maybe someone knows of a battery AC adapter or something??
Thanks!
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Are you in a 4G area? I am not but wish I were. You do know that you can root your phone and then drop the $30 free from big red yet still tether? Its what I a m doing for more than 2 years with no problems at all.
I have no stability problems doing it via wifi. I was getting data drops before the .902 update. I would take your phone back or call tech support and get it fixed before you root it. You paid good money and should expect good service from both the phone and big red.

Wifi external storage thoughts...

Whenever I travel, by biggest grouch is that some of the hotels/motels only provide a hard wired ethernet connection and you cannot (Well, there are ways you can) connect anything other than your laptop with an ethernet port to the internet via the hook-up.
So I ordered this - http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-Wirel...UTF8&qid=1343871357&sr=8-2&keywords=TL-MR3040 which I found on buy.com for $40 shipped (Price has gone up now!). I am thinking that I will flash openwrt on it and then use this - http://www.frys.com/product/5923844?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG plugged into the USB port on the router as a wifi network HDD and also as a travel router. The router can be powered by a mini-usb cable hooked up to it and it also has an in-built 2000mAh battery which apparently keeps it juiced for about 5 hrs if you believe the specs. I think you can hook-up an even larger external HDD to the router if you choose to (within power restraints).
I looked thought the forums, but couldn't find anyone who has chosen to go down this route. Has anyone had any success with a similar setup?
Cheers.

Saurabh said:
Whenever I travel, by biggest grouch is that some of the hotels/motels only provide a hard wired ethernet connection and you cannot (Well, there are ways you can) connect anything other than your laptop with an ethernet port to the internet via the hook-up.
So I ordered this - http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-Wirel...UTF8&qid=1343871357&sr=8-2&keywords=TL-MR3040 which I found on buy.com for $40 shipped (Price has gone up now!). I am thinking that I will flash openwrt on it and then use this - http://www.frys.com/product/5923844?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG plugged into the USB port on the router as a wifi network HDD and also as a travel router. The router can be powered by a mini-usb cable hooked up to it and it also has an in-built 2000mAh battery which apparently keeps it juiced for about 5 hrs if you believe the specs. I think you can hook-up an even larger external HDD to the router if you choose to (within power restraints).
I looked thought the forums, but couldn't find anyone who has chosen to go down this route. Has anyone had any success with a similar setup?
Cheers.
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I went with an Asus Travel Router which I reflashed with DD-WRT. This will also do wifi rebroadcasting if you are in a hotel and want to share the wireless connection. It still does AP and router modes. Its a smallish thing and has one issue with the firmware which I have learned to live with. I've used it in Japan, India, Singapore in the past where the hotels had either wireless or wired ethernet so I could share the connection with multiple devices. I think that this is the one I got:
http://www.amazon.com/Asus-Wireless...1343874836&sr=1-2&keywords=asus+travel+router
Never used a portable storage thing like you linked to though.
The wireless sharing was quite nice when I wanted a second laptop or even my android phone to be on the hotel network in my room.

Needing Network advice

Ok I'm moving into a new house and I'm going to set up the house with better access to Wi-Fi and Ethernet connections.
I have a 300mb fiber connection. It's connected via a Netgest Nighthawk X6 rR8000. I'm wanting to expand the Wi-Fi network throughout the house for better connectivity but I also want to add a switch or 2 so I can connect my Hopper 3, Apple Tv, Xbox One etc via Ethernet.
So I was thinking of this:
Fiber >Nighthawk>switch, so I can connect my office via ethernet / Add a 2nd router as a reapter>switch on it near my devices for wired connections.
Is this a good way of doing it? What router should I use with the Nighthawk as a reapter that will automatically switch over networks without having to reconnect to the other? Or is there a better way to do all this? I'm open to ideas. Thanks in advance.

Any suggestions? 'm looking for the best way to set everything up so I can extend the Wi-Fi in the house and be able to use a switch to connect devices to Ethernet at my entertainment center

Raspberry Pi wireless streaming server, is it possible?

Hi all,
A few years back I made a system for in the car based on a Raspberry Pi 2, it incorporated a Rpi2, a hdmi splitter and OSMC installed. I made 2 7" IPS LCD screens with custom made housing that attached to the front seat head rests. This way I could play movies in the car for the children when we were traveling with the car. It really worked well and I could control the movies by using the wifi access point feature in OSMC and the Kodi remote control app for Android.
Downside is that both children (a girl and a boy) have to watch the same movie and now that they're 6 and 5 there's a constant struggle as my son doesn't like barbie movies and my daughter does not like teenage mutant ninja turtles!
So, I want to make a new one. My plan is to use a Rpi3 as media server with hard drive attached and kodi on 2 android tablets connected via Wifi to the Rpi3. This way it must me possible for them to choose and watch their own movie seperately.
Is this possible? And is the internal wifi adapter fast enough as I didn't have too much luck with this (very unstable en below average speeds). I could also us a Wifi access point connected to the RJ45 network connector. Or buy the new RPi3+ which has a 300 Mb network port and maybe improved wifi?
I looked everywhere for some guide but I don't seem to find it.
Anyone good tips??

Yeah it's surely possible dude/dudette. But the question is would it be entirely practical is a different story.
The RPi 3B+ has the network capabilities you are after (as long as you're not streaming 1080p across the network for both tablets), the only thing is for it to be effective would be the tablets need 5ghz connections also to utilise the 5ghz networking speeds. I don't have the data sheet on hand which tells me the speeds but 2.4ghz certainly wouldn't suffice both streaming.
The only problem you would encounter would be is Read speeds of the RPi 3B+ and is it worth destroying a hard drive by putting it in a car (vibrations/G forces *if you crash*) is it worth it? I know HDDs are cheap these days so it might not even be a worthwhile issue in today's world.
I wouldn't bother with an ethernet connection, you could utilise the USB to RJ45 Gigabit speeds it apparently allows. Yet again Read speeds might be the downfall on SD cards unless you have a uber SD card.