I have an interesting idea. I have a Samsung Captivate from AT&T, which obviously lets me make my phone a wifi hot spot for other devices. If I connect the HD7 to its wifi, won't I be able to get the 3G speed on the HD7 from my Captivate since it is through wifi?
Yes, you can... but you might as well just use your Captivate if you are going to carry that around right? Unless you are that desperate to use a Windows Phone 7.
Well one of my main reasons for using the Captivate for a wifi router for the HD7 is so i can stream netflix since Android, sadly, doesn't have that.
Or I could use it to quickly check for updates to new apps, or check on my xbox live account.
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My current data plan does not allow tethering, more specifically the use of the phone as an internet modem. But I know apps like PDAnet can bypass it and behaves like a mobile web app so that I won't get charged extra. I was wondering if the Froyo's new WiFi hotspot feature behaves like PDAnet.
Thanks!
yes it does.
It works for me too and I'm loving it.
Sorry to get off topic i didn't want to start an entire thread. If I may speculatr; If any of the 4 major carriers were to allow tethering I think its T-Mobile, they are focused on improving their 3g while the others are worried about 4g and Verizon is even making overtures for tiered, limited plans for 4g. I know very little but T-Mobile is finally losing customers and can't afford to be restrictive plus their relatively few subscribers means they are unlikely to have overuse issues that can disrupt service, plus afaik T-Mobile USA doesn't have mobile data plans other than for cell phones. Again this is all speculation and I don't know if carriers have official positions on tethering but T-Mobile just seems to me the most likely to allow it for free, I don't see how it would cost them anything, and with tethering working so well I'd prefer cheap 3g (which is theoretically super fast by the end of 2010) with tethering and unlimited data than 4g, no tethering, more expensive, and tiered.
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My current data plan does not allow tethering, more specifically the use of the phone as an internet modem. But I know apps like PDAnet can bypass it and behaves like a mobile web app so that I won't get charged extra. I was wondering if the Froyo's new WiFi hotspot feature behaves like PDAnet.
Thanks!
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[stock Google Nexus One (not rooted or unlocked) on AT&T 3G (without a tethering plan)]
I have used PdaNet for a few weeks with great success, but it is only a tether, not a hotspot.
I manually updated to FRF91 a couple days ago and have been using the native Froyo WiFi Hotspot functionality instead of PdaNet.
Overall it seems to work, though there has been occasional weirdness. Sometimes when I try to connect my Windows 7 laptop to the AndroidAP hotspot, it takes forever, and then I get "limited connectivity - no internet access". And sometimes it just works fine. At least once there was no default gateway set after "connecting" (so, no data!). I do not know where the problem is - Windows, Android, or AT&T.
I have read elsewhere (from a Google source) that the carriers CAN SEE if you have the tethering/hotspot function enabled, and in fact THEY CAN DISABLE the functionality remotely. I have also seen other info that contradicts this, though I am predisposed to believe the (claimed) Google source. It doesn't make sense to me that the carriers would allow this functionality onto the phone if they could not control it.
We shall see.....
Hey all,
My ultimate goal is to take my motorola droid, and connect it wirelessly to my nexus one using wireless tether. I dont have verizon so it'd be sweet to piggy off of my nexus and have virtually two phones.
My problem is my motorola droid, nor my gf's stock evo can see the wireless network I create in wireless tether. However, laptops and both of my roomates iphones can see it.
I also created a wireless network on my droid but then my nexus one cant see that one. Is there a problem connecting two android phones together over wifi? what am I doing wrong that other phones can see it, but not android phones..
Other ways to tether?
Thanks!
The network you're creating is Ad Hoc network, which is different from Access Point network that is provided by WiFi routers. Phones might not be set for recognizing and connecting to such network, at least it looks so from your description.
Understanding that, it leads to another point in my question. Why can iPhones connect to those wireless access points that my android phones create?
It doesn't make sense that you cant connect android to android. There must be a driver or something that I'm missing or some other app I may need to install.
Any other ideas?
Googled some, found official Ad Hoc request thread:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=3b250c94811ca5df&hl=en
Over 2 years now. There is a way to enable it, but I guess it didn't find its way into custom ROMs yet.
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Googled some, found official Ad Hoc request thread:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=3b250c94811ca5df&hl=en
Over 2 years now. There is a way to enable it, but I guess it didn't find its way into custom ROMs yet.
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This is the most startling thing to discover about my phone... How can the iPhone trump me on this one and do ad-hoc
Android WiFiTether lets you do tethering over bluetooth as well. Would it be possible to take one android phone with the internet, pair them by bluetooth, and share that way?
I need to set up my Laptop to stream my mother in law's funeral from Canada to the UK. The location does not have internet access so my plan is to use my Nexus One's wifi teathering abilities. The question I have is it possible to use two Nexus One's linked together some how to increase the amount of bandwith I have available? It is really important that the link not drop out, I am fairly certain that it will work with just one phone but if there is some way to increase my chances of success I would like to try it.
Thank you in advance for you help.
Both phones are running cm6
This isn't really the right forum to be asking this question. Android will tether with any OS configured correctly to use it. Your question has nothing to do with Android though, it is about getting your laptop's OS to recognize two USB network adapters (which shouldn't be a problem) and setting up your OS to use the two interfaces together. I would ask in a forum about networking or your laptops OS for the best chance of a helpful reply.
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I need to set up my Laptop to stream my mother in law's funeral from Canada to the UK. The location does not have internet access so my plan is to use my Nexus One's wifi teathering abilities. The question I have is it possible to use two Nexus One's linked together some how to increase the amount of bandwith I have available? It is really important that the link not drop out, I am fairly certain that it will work with just one phone but if there is some way to increase my chances of success I would like to try it.
Thank you in advance for you help.
Both phones are running cm6
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This is for Windows. I'm not sure if it is even possible to do this with a Mac
Should be easy as enabling both phones for tethering. Once both connections are verified by the computer. Go into network connections and right click on one of the networks. There should be an option to link the connection. Do that and you might have increased bandwidth.
EDIT: I just tried this and it worked fine. I saw no speed increase in my internet. Although I have a 6 meg download, so maybe if my internet was slower.....
If it's important that the link not drop out, how about USB tethering?
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App
I used skype and tethered my phone to a net book and had my best friends wedding broadcast live to his brother in iraq while connected to edge, you should be fine with one phone with at least two bars
When you have 2 internet connections, you need an application to split traffic to allow you to utilize their bandwidth. By default, everything will go through only one connection, and the second will be useless.
Thanks for all the suggestions, I should have 5 bars on HSPA where I will be, but I wanted a backup option. Will try having one phone on USB with the other on Wifi and then linking them. I usually get 4 meg down and 1.7 up, if it's not enough I can buy a HSPA+ internet stick and put my sim card in it.
Thanks again
I've been Wondering for about Two weeks now, is it Possible to use Wireless Tether from one device to Another?
My friend Recently had his HTC Hero phone with him at my house, and to his Surprise he Wasn't able Connect to the Internet from his Mobile Browser. For whatever reason?
I Told him to Pay his Bill! Lol...
Anyways I came up with a Idea, which was to Tether My Phone with hopes that he'd be Able to Connect to the Internet that way.
But now to my Surprise, his Android based phone Never even Recognized the Tether signal!
But Strange enough my niece who was Also there, Tried with her Ipod Touch and Was Able to find the Tether signal and Connect! Lol...
So I guess I'm asking Does or Has Anyone out there have Any stories Related to Successfully Tethering from Mobile to Mobile? And if so, How?
Thanx in Advance!
its weird some roms can pick up an adhoc signal i used to do that with my old mt3g using a froyoyoshi rom. Im sure it can be done on the hero but no one has bothered to enable it yet.
I have a Captivate and I'm considering gretting a tablet... The Cappy is at&t and as free wifi-hotspot service. The Tablet I want to get is wifi-only...
I know I can connect to the wifi-hotspot with my cappy.. Can I tether the tablet to the cappy via bluetooth or some other means so I can use the at&t wifi-hotspot that I already pay for with the cappy?
Tether captivate connect to wifi hotspot
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I have a Captivate and I'm considering getting a tablet... The Cappy is at&t and has free wifi-hotspot service. The Tablet I want to get is wifi-only...
I know I can connect to the wifi-hotspot with my cappy.. Can I tether the tablet to the cappy via bluetooth or some other means so I can use the at&t wifi-hotspot that I already pay for with the cappy?
of course, why can't you? if you pay for tethering - tether, but the client will be not laptop but tablet. there is no difference for AT&T AFAIK. only lower data usage + higher battery, cos you might wanna to have internet on tablet al time?
Yuna said:
of course, why can't you? if you pay for tethering - tether, but the client will be not laptop but tablet. there is no difference for AT&T AFAIK. only lower data usage + higher battery, cos you might wanna to have internet on tablet al time?
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You missed OP's point entirely. For AT&T smartphone with paid data plans, you can use AT&T wi-fi hot spot for free (otherwise, you need to pay for it). In order to do that AT&T adds its own special software to its Smartphone so that it will auto-authentiate with the hot-spot and use it for free.
So to answer OP's question, no you will not be able to use your tab on hot-spot for free. Only the AT&T smartphone are allowed. And no, Cappy does not have bluetooth tethering capability.
Besides, the only place I saw AT&T hot spot is McDonalds. If you bought anything in McDonalds, you can already use the hot spot for free (just ask them). So, I don't see this helps much.
Cappy does have wi-fi hot spot feature built-in (Froyo or later) so that you can share the cell data connection with your tab. But it requires you to subscribe to tethering plan. If you already rooted your phone, you can easily remove that restiction.