BTW, a little OT, but Verizon FiOS is awesome.
Fiber is the future, and it's FAST! Plus, the HDTV isn't too shabby either
I tether my phone to my xbox for xbox live, and I don't have any problems at all. My ping is a little higher than cable or dsl, but it is definitely playable with xbox live service.
PDANET works well, and supports bluetooth also, saving a cable, but reducing bandwidth some. Thanks for the pointer, DougWilson2000. My local Verizon techs made the same recommendation after I mentioned it to them.I teather with pdanet or I use Proxoid to teather.
Its easy! Ive done it a Thousand times, dating back to my touch pro days!
1. Root your droid, and use wifi tether.
2. Get a Linksys DDWRT capable router, flash the router to the ddwrt firmware.
3.Use a Linksys DDWRT router to use the wifi provided by your droid.
It works well, i have experience using it on WOW, and it works fine.
Please direct any questions to : www.dd-wrt.com | Unleash Your Router
Or me, i can help some..
-Jon
i have a dd-wrt router and am trying to figure out how do do exactly this. Please share your knowledge.
Well i have been trying again for about an hour and no luck. I simply can not get this to work correctly. From what i remember when setting up the router to be a repeater or bridge i need the router and wifi ap names to be the same, so i renamed the router AndroidTether, which is the default name for the droids wifi. I believe that the ip address that the droids wifi spot assigns to itself is 192.168.2.254, so i entered that as the default gateway of the router. I gave the router an ip address of 192.168.2.9. I must being doing something incorrectly. I determined that the droids wifi ip was 192.168.2.254 using the ipconfig /all command in windows, but i could be wrong.
The reason i am attempting this is for use with my FTA receiver (sonicview premier) and IKS services (ihub). I live way off grid and use solor panels for power. I use to use a pc between my iks unit (ihub) and phone to share the internet connection, but being limited in power i need to do away with having my pc on to watch tv. I need to have my dd-wrt router act as a bridge to my droids wifi connection wirelessly, then that should allow me to have a wired connection from my iks unit (ihub) to the router to get the keys needed from the iks server to unscramble my tv signal.
Basically i just need my droids wifi internet connection to be available to the routers wired ports.
If anyone has a similar setup please inform me of how you got it working.
I have tried this a few times over the weeks, but would really like to get it working soon.
Thank you for your time.
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i'm try'n to do the same but get ERROR 621-did you? that's on my laptop.do you know how to fix that ?it works great on my pc.Im reading alot of this tething, i use pda-net to connect my laptop (windows7) when im not in a good wifi. I just moved out further in the country, i did have broadband now i cant get anything where im living now. If im reading this correct what you guys are saying there is no way to use my wireless router that i was using on my cable modem.
I currently have a TrendNet TEW 652BRP Nspeed.
I was running the laptop and xbox live off of this router, can anyone give advice?
Well i have been trying again for about an hour and no luck. I simply can not get this to work correctly. From what i remember when setting up the router to be a repeater or bridge i need the router and wifi ap names to be the same, so i renamed the router AndroidTether, which is the default name for the droids wifi. I believe that the ip address that the droids wifi spot assigns to itself is 192.168.2.254, so i entered that as the default gateway of the router. I gave the router an ip address of 192.168.2.9. I must being doing something incorrectly. I determined that the droids wifi ip was 192.168.2.254 using the ipconfig /all command in windows, but i could be wrong.
The reason i am attempting this is for use with my FTA receiver (sonicview premier) and IKS services (ihub). I live way off grid and use solor panels for power. I use to use a pc between my iks unit (ihub) and phone to share the internet connection, but being limited in power i need to do away with having my pc on to watch tv. I need to have my dd-wrt router act as a bridge to my droids wifi connection wirelessly, then that should allow me to have a wired connection from my iks unit (ihub) to the router to get the keys needed from the iks server to unscramble my tv signal.
Basically i just need my droids wifi internet connection to be available to the routers wired ports.
If anyone has a similar setup please inform me of how you got it working.
I have tried this a few times over the weeks, but would really like to get it working soon.
Thank you for your time.
Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk
You can do wireless tethering easily with root, but wired tethering I don't know. Does your laptop have a wifi card? If it does your fine. Don't use this as a permanent connection though. You will get some heavy fee's sooner or later.
Yes - this is possible, just follow the instructions a couple posts above from LinuxFreakD.
I am using the INCLUDED, PAID, 4G hotspot on the droid bionic.
I am using DD-WRT on a Linksys Router
-- Why did I want to do this?
Because now i have networked computers that all share the wifi hotspot connection, whereas BEFORE the computers could all share the connection BUT they weren't networked.
I had stumbled into an error and disabling the security on the hotspot (and subsequently the bridge) fixed it, it's fine because the broadcast is so small no one lives close enough to jack it anyway...
I also attached ANOTHER wireless router and amplified the signal significantly (this one has security though).
I know this probably doesn't make sense right now, but just follow the combination of instructions from LinuxFreakD AND the instructions he links too, what he forgot to mention is that you must set your computer BACK to automatically obtain IP address...
Anyway, it's a great set up... it takes two routers + droid bionic, but they are a dime a dozen on craigslist.
Any specific questions, just ask,
and giantmehdi, this will take care of YOUR problem too... you can just plug the xbox into the router or plug another wireless router in and have the xbox access that...
lol, good luck
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