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....
Hey guys I have the following message...
Chromecast connected to wi-fi, but can't access the internet
I am in college and the only internet I can use is a VPN. Im not sure if that is the problem. I have my own router connected but its the colleges internet. Anyone have any idea how to get my chromecast running?
AP Isolation
crl95 said:
Hey guys I have the following message...
Chromecast connected to wi-fi, but can't access the internet
I am in college and the only internet I can use is a VPN. Im not sure if that is the problem. I have my own router connected but its the colleges internet. Anyone have any idea how to get my chromecast running?
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You need to turn AP isolation off in order to let your tablet or PC and the Chromecast talk to each other through the router connection. Most APs disallow this by default (ie: in a coffee shop, you don't want other devices to be able to access your client via the routers network). Given you're VPNing, you probably need something like a D-Link DIR 506L to make it work:
https://plus.google.com/101170454445449447714/posts/KPKhTgoBEg3
IanWaring said:
You need to turn AP isolation off in order to let your tablet or PC and the Chromecast talk to each other through the router connection. Most APs disallow this by default (ie: in a coffee shop, you don't want other devices to be able to access your client via the routers network). Given you're VPNing, you probably need something like a D-Link DIR 506L to make it work:
https://plus.google.com/101170454445449447714/posts/KPKhTgoBEg3
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Thanks for the reply if i have to do this though I will just return the chromecast and get an apple tv because that would be the same price. Any other idea?
Using my raspberry pi, I created a pptp vpn server, but I find myself unable to connect to it under my school's wifi (I am able to connect to other wifi via the raspberry pi). Would programs such as iprism the school is running prevent me from accessing the vpn?
Yes iprism could prevent you from connecting to your PPTP server as any other webfilter, proxy server, etc. could do as well.
You maybe get around that if you're dropping PPTP and use OpenVPN instead. This alone wouldn't help much but running your server on port 443 could do the trick .
Hi All,
I recently acquired a chromecast and would very much like access to the BBC Iplayer (I live in the netherlands). I can already watch Iplayer on my phone using the VPN option in android but once I try to watch it on chromecast it doesn't start the stream which is probably because the chromecast is connected to my home network which is not behind the VPN. I also can't mirror screen since I loose connection from my phone to the chromecast as soon as I connect my phone to the VPN.
Now I read that it is possible to do with a DDWRT router but I do not have one of those and I wouldn't want my whole network to be on a different IP, just the chromecast & if needed my phone. I do however have something that I would like to consider a lot more powerful than a router, namely a "Server PC" running windows XP professional. Would I be able to use this server and enable the VPN on it and then make the chromecast connect to the server? Would I need 2 USB wireless adapters or 1 (so my phone connects to 1 and the chromecast to the second. My server connects via ethernet to my modem)? Could I somehow configure this USB adapter to be connected to the VPN by default? Could I use virtualization software? I would like the most clean option preferably without affecting the rest of my server (but it would be OK if the server is temporarily in the UK until I have watched the show). Perhaps this topic can be extended to other devices with wireless capabilities like NAS and raspberries etc.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Ok so after some digging I found at least 1 way of doing it: http://alphaloop.blogspot.nl/2014/01/raspberry-pi-as-vpn-wireless-access.html
However I still think this should be possible on a windows XP machine with a wireless adapter.
On many Windows 7 PCs with wi-fi, you can use the following to create a hosted wifi network that your chromecast can connect to:
netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=XXXX key=YYYY
netsh wlan start hostednetwork
if you then share your VPN adapter's internet connection with the hosted wifi that you've created, you can connect your phone and chromecast to the same wifi XXXX and that will be connected to the internet via the VPN on the laptop.
I have a raspberry pi 3 that I want to make into a tor router to use with my laptop(doesn't have Ethernet port). I have seen tutorials online showing how to do this, but they do not work for what I need to do. What I was thinking of doing was being able to plug the pi into my computer for USB power. Then it would turn on and connect to the WiFi network using the credentials that I would put on there while setting it up. Then it would turn into a tor router and transmit the connection to my computer thru a USB to USB cable. I know that my laptop works with a USB internet because I tethered that way from my phone before. Optionally I would like to be able to prevent connection to certain websites thru the pi. Would anyone know how I could go about doing this. Thank you.