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Android Dongle?
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Android Dongle?
How do I get my android to act as a dongle? I have two windows 7 computers set up and one has a wifi dongle (virgin media) and the other has my android phone (swees) plugged in, my phone is capable of tethering and hot spotting so I turn on my hotspot and get my android to connect, then I tether it to my pc but both my pc's can not connect to each over, is this possible to do and if so, how do I do it, I have been googling for ages, the game im trying to connect them with each over is Minetest as a lan server.
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Re: Android Dongle?
You'll need to connect the two PCs via a local Wireless Network, or a normal Local Area Network.
At a given time, an android phone can either broadcast an internet connection via wifi (hotspot) or via a USB cable or bluetooth connection (tethering). Alternatively, an android phone can receive an internet connection via a USB cable or bluetooth connection (reverse tethering) or via wifi (standard wifi connection). The hotspot and tethering methods deliver an internet connection, and the reverse tethering and your standard wifi connection can receive an internet connection. An android cannot broadcast and receive an internet connection or any network connection at the same time. This means that while you can use the hotspot feature to emulate a small wifi network, you cannot make two computers connect to each other via that android phone.
If you have a router, and you can connect the two PCs on the same wifi network, that is a much simpler an easier way to connect the two PCs together. If not, you can buy this 'Ethernet Crossover Cable' to connect the two PCs with a single wire directly.
EDIT: What exactly is the nature of that dongle you mentioned? Does it connect to a virgin WiFi network, or to a network in your own house?
At a given time, an android phone can either broadcast an internet connection via wifi (hotspot) or via a USB cable or bluetooth connection (tethering). Alternatively, an android phone can receive an internet connection via a USB cable or bluetooth connection (reverse tethering) or via wifi (standard wifi connection). The hotspot and tethering methods deliver an internet connection, and the reverse tethering and your standard wifi connection can receive an internet connection. An android cannot broadcast and receive an internet connection or any network connection at the same time. This means that while you can use the hotspot feature to emulate a small wifi network, you cannot make two computers connect to each other via that android phone.
If you have a router, and you can connect the two PCs on the same wifi network, that is a much simpler an easier way to connect the two PCs together. If not, you can buy this 'Ethernet Crossover Cable' to connect the two PCs with a single wire directly.
EDIT: What exactly is the nature of that dongle you mentioned? Does it connect to a virgin WiFi network, or to a network in your own house?
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7:42 PM - Bauglio: so fudge the stable build
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7:42 PM - Bauglio: so fudge the stable build
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