Posted: 8/9/2010 5:39:41 PM EDT
| I thought I read the new firmware update allowed you to use your phone as a wi fi hotspot. I see where you can tether, but nothing on the hotspot. Anyone have any info on this? |
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I thought I read the new firmware update allowed you to use your phone as a wi fi hotspot. I see where you can tether, but nothing on the hotspot. Anyone have any info on this? you gotta pay for it the wifi tether.. should be called mobile hotspot..ill look into it tomorrow at work |
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Quoted: I think your phone has to have the hardware in it to serve as a hotspot. The Droid X has the hardware I'm fairly certain. Droid 1 no (since I have one), Droid 2 I don't know. Sorry you are mistaken. I'm running a Droid 1 and teather via the wireless hotspot. I'm rooted and running a custom ROM. Any android phone that has wifi can do this. |
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Quoted: Quoted: I think your phone has to have the hardware in it to serve as a hotspot. The Droid X has the hardware I'm fairly certain. Droid 1 no (since I have one), Droid 2 I don't know. Sorry you are mistaken. I'm running a Droid 1 and teather via the wireless hotspot. I'm rooted and running a custom ROM. Any android phone that has wifi can do this. Ah I stand corrected. Good to know. Just a Verizon BS thing. |
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I have a Motorolla Droid. What is a rooted phone? Definition of Rooting - DroidExperts.com |
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Wireless tether will not work on the OG Droid because it does not have a wifi transmitter. /thread. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile And yet, here I sit on my computer going through my Droid on a wireless tether. Here's the deal. If you use the built in WiFi hotspot on the Droid X you'll be paying Verizon another $25 dollars (I think around that) on top of your data plan. If you have the original droid as I do, get root access (many different ways, look it up) and use the "wireless tether" app from the market. It sets up an ad hoc network you can connect to wirelessly. There are also apps like PDAnet that connect through either a USB tether or bluetooth dial up networking. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Wireless tether will not work on the OG Droid because it does not have a wifi transmitter. /thread. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile And yet, here I sit on my computer going through my Droid on a wireless tether. Here's the deal. If you use the built in WiFi hotspot on the Droid X you'll be paying Verizon another $25 dollars (I think around that) on top of your data plan. If you have the original droid as I do, get root access (many different ways, look it up) and use the "wireless tether" app from the market. It sets up an ad hoc network you can connect to wirelessly. There are also apps like PDAnet that connect through either a USB tether or bluetooth dial up networking. Same on the X. Root it, get wifi tether. Read my later post. |
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I thought I read the new firmware update allowed you to use your phone as a wi fi hotspot. I see where you can tether, but nothing on the hotspot. Anyone have any info on this? you gotta pay for it the wifi tether.. should be called mobile hotspot..ill look into it tomorrow at work
you are correct sir it is a paid feature normally 29.99 for sprint or you can root and bypass if you have the hardware not that i'm advocating rooting |
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Quoted: I think your phone has to have the hardware in it to serve as a hotspot. The Droid X has the hardware I'm fairly certain. Droid 1 no (since I have one), Droid 2 I don't know. As I understand it, the original Motorola Droid has the hardware to wireless tether in "ad-hoc" mode, but does not actually act as an access point. While the official update from Verizon to 2.2 is apparently adding USB tethering for an extra fee, I do not believe that wireless tethering will be available. The only way to make it work that I am aware of is by "rooting" the phone and downloading the wireless tethering app from the market. |
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Quoted: I've had 3 computers tethered to my phone at once via wireless... Can that be done via an ad-hoc setup?Quoted: I think your phone has to have the hardware in it to serve as a hotspot. The Droid X has the hardware I'm fairly certain. Droid 1 no (since I have one), Droid 2 I don't know. As I understand it, the original Motorola Droid has the hardware to wireless tether in "ad-hoc" mode, but does not actually act as an access point. While the official update from Verizon to 2.2 is apparently adding USB tethering for an extra fee, I do not believe that wireless tethering will be available. The only way to make it work that I am aware of is by "rooting" the phone and downloading the wireless tethering app from the market. |