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Tether WiFi
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The Tether WiFi Android application allows one to tether their G1 phone with their PC or laptop over Wifi through an ad hoc connection. Once a connection is established, full internet capability is available through the G1 phone’s 3G connection. Users should make sure they have the unlimited data plan to use this feature. To use this application the user must have super user (aka root, su) access on their phone. For more information on getting root access, please visit http://allshadow.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5229
Some additional notes on this application:
- To start the tethering just click on the start tether button.
- To stop the tethering just click on the stop tether button.
- Your Wifi will be turned off for this application. If your wifi is on, this app will turn it off when you hit start and then turn it back on when you hit stop. Your wifi will actually be on when this service is running, but in ad hoc mode as opposed to the normal mode, so you will not see the wifi symbol, you may notice your battery drain faster.
- After the wifi tethering service starts, you can connect to your phone from your pc. There will be an ad hoc network with a SSID (wireless network name) of Android, this can be changed in the settings. Connect to this ad hoc network (you may have to enable connections to ad hoc networks).
- As your PC(s) connect you will see them come up in a DHCP clients list below the start and stop buttons.
- You can also enable MAC filtering, so that you can limit what can connect through your phone. To do so, add MAC addresses to the MAC filter list and then select Enable MAC Filtering from the Options Menu
- To add/remove MAC addresses to the filter list, you can either long click an item from the DHCP clients list or you can select the View MAC Filter List from the Options Menu
- This program makes your phone act as an ad hoc Wifi NAT router with an IP of 10.0.1.2 and will give your PC a DHCP lease of 10.0.1.x, you can change these settings
Version Log: 1.0.8 – update which helps latency
Website: http://www.androidactivity.com/tetherWifi.html