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04-18-2013, 07:51 PM
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Viff6N Mutated Warrior
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cellphone hotspot + desktop
Still waiting on a company to get to the town I live in for service so I thought about activating verizon hotspot on my htc rezound. How would I go to get my desktop to connect? I have a Dlink DIR-655 router. Will that work or does that just send out wifi and not recieve?
Since turning on 4G, I can get up to 10mb/5mb speeds. 
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04-18-2013, 08:33 PM
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Do you only want your desktop to connect? USB tethering would probably be the easiest route. You could also put a wireless NIC in your desktop.
If you wanted to go through the router I found this link on google. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/foru...zon-mifi-2200/ Apparently there are some pretty cheap routers/repeaters out there that can do this if yours can't. You can also USB tether to routers apparently.
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04-18-2013, 09:10 PM
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Download the PDANet App (not available on AT&T's Google Play network, not sure about Verizon). Worst case scenario, you just download it via your PC and copy it to your phone. Then all you need is a USB cable to connect your phone to your PC and you're browsing the web.
Note: PDANet is only necessary if Verizon doesn't allow or charges for tethering, and you want to get around it. |
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04-18-2013, 11:10 PM
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Viff6N Mutated Warrior
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Ok. I activated verizons tethering and it works, but then the connection just quits after a couple of minutes. As soon as I pull the usb cord the connection is fine on my phone. Hotspot seems to work fine.
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04-19-2013, 11:03 AM
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Try using Foxfi - its an app you can download for your android - won't cost you anything either. Makes ur phone into a wifi access point.
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04-19-2013, 03:48 PM
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Viff6N Mutated Warrior
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Wifi works fine. I need wired tethering to work.
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04-19-2013, 04:16 PM
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PDANet works and you don't have to pay that redic fee to the cell company.
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04-19-2013, 04:28 PM
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What company still charges for tethering? I thought that went away with all these new 10-devices-on-one-plan plans?
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04-19-2013, 04:30 PM
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First you pay for data, then you pay for text messages (redundant charge), and finally if you want to use the data you've already paid for to browse on a PC... well, that's going to cost you even more. That's an even bigger rip off than the "undercoating" they used to offer on new cars back in the day. |
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