Help Xoom and Hotspotting?

[tyneusch]

Has anyone used their Xoom as a hotspot for a laptop or another device? If you have, what programs are you useing to do so?

 

[pwscott]

I am using the Xoom to replace my MyFi on Verizon so hotspot is key.

It's not an app per se like on a Droid X, but a setting in the Networks:

Settings > Settings > Wireless & Networks > Tethering and portable hotspot

You enable it there and can use USB, Wifi or Bluetooth to tether. You get to name the SSID for Wifi and select your own PSK or 'Pre-shared Key' for WPA-PSK encryption. [Note that I had to reboot once to get it working first time- you hold power and up volume until it restarts].

Enjoy. Let me know how it's working? I wonder if my Xoom sleeps and I put it in my briefcase while the laptop is tethered does it still work? Have not had any real time to experiment.

 

[Don S]

I am using the Xoom to replace my MyFi on Verizon so hotspot is key.

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Ditto. Working great for me as well.

 

[Amatherly]

Enjoy. Let me know how it's working? I wonder if my Xoom sleeps and I put it in my briefcase while the laptop is tethered does it still work? Have not had any real time to experiment.

I've used it seems bit to tether my laptop, and it stays connected when my Xoom is sleeping and in my bag at my feet. I generally turn the screen off manually, and don't get any interruption in service.

 

[mellyf]

I am using the Xoom to replace my MyFi on Verizon so hotspot is key...

How does that work? I've currently got a Mifi w/ Verizon, but when I checked on upgrading it to the Xoom (just online...not at a Verizon store), it said upgrading would require a plan change, which I don't want to do, since I've got unlimited data grandfathered in at a better price than what it's currently offered.

 

[etacarinae]

Rather than sign a contract with verizon I use the wifi hot spot on my Optimus t that's on the $1.49 a day prepayed plan with t-mobile and use that to hook up with xoom&laptop save a bundle.

 

[TPadden]

How does that work? I've currently got a Mifi w/ Verizon, but when I checked on upgrading it to the Xoom (just online...not at a Verizon store), it said upgrading would require a plan change, which I don't want to do, since I've got unlimited data grandfathered in at a better price than what it's currently offered.

Verizon doesn't charge any fee for using a Xoom hotspot since that is one of it's intended uses - they just deduct data used from your Xoom data plan. On the negative side an unlimited Xoom plan isn't offered.

 

[Deleted User]

When I get my Xoom next month I am getting the wifi only version because I use wifi at my house most of the time and when I am on the go I can use my Samsung Vibrant as a mobile hotspot and get online on the Xoom that way.

 

[TPadden]

When I get my Xoom next month I am getting the wifi only version because I use wifi at my house most of the time and when I am on the go I can use my Samsung Vibrant as a mobile hotspot and get online on the Xoom that way.

Sounds like a good plan - for your use .

I use mine on the go quite a bit and don't want to always be recharging my phone.

 

[Deleted User]

Yea, I suppose the mobile hotspot takes up a lot of battery life in your phone.

 

[etacarinae]

Yea, I suppose the mobile hotspot takes up a lot of battery life in your phone.

I keep my phone plug in when using for an hour or longer at home.

 

[androidguy65]

Verizon doesn't charge any fee for using a Xoom hotspot since that is one of it's intended uses - they just deduct data used from your Xoom data plan. On the negative side an unlimited Xoom plan isn't offered.

Is that true? I was going to hotspot Saturday but realized I am on the cheapest plan and I figured that I needed a higher plan. Are you positive or should I contact Verizon?

 

[clb2196]

Is that true? I was going to hotspot Saturday but realized I am on the cheapest plan and I figured that I needed a higher plan. Are you positive or should I contact Verizon?

Can't speak for them, but I'm positive. I asked Verizon specifically. No extra fee for using the Xoom as a hotspot, just gets taken out of your regular usage.

 

[androidguy65]

Good to know. Now I can tether to my phone when I travel. (I hate att dead zones)