[Q] Share WiFi over bluetooth pan?

[mcwtrekkie]

Hi,

Is it at all possible to share my smartphone/pocket pc wifi connection over BT?

The only threads I've seen relate to sharing cellular over Wifi (like turning your phone into an access point - not quite what I'm looking for

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks :)

[sebbesapa]

Hi,

Is it at all possible to share my smartphone/pocket pc wifi connection over BT?

The only threads I've seen relate to sharing cellular over Wifi (like turning your phone into an access point - not quite what I'm looking for

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks :)

I'm looking for the same thing, i think...

I want to share a internet connection like this:

wifi AP ----wlan----> htc touch diamond ----bluetooth----> PC

Is it possible?

Tnx

[Chrille2k]

im too looking for this, I have a laptop with bluetooth but without wifi.

Anyone found anything?

[gailh]

I am looking for this as well. I have a laptop with no WiFi, but with BT, and a WM6 HP 211 iPaq. I would like to connect the iPaq to the Internet using WiFi (easily done), then share the Internet connection through Bluetooth, with my WinXP SP2 PC.
I have paired the devices. For example, I can do ActiveSync synchronization via BT between my PC and the iPaq.
"Netwok Access" connection via BT between iPaq and PC seems OK as well.
Still, when I go to "Internet Sharing" on the iPaq, the "PC Connection" field shows only "USB", it does not show "BT PAN".
Can anyone help? many thanks in advance
Gail

[Chainfire]

WMWifiRouter can do Wi-Fi to USB, but not BT at this time. It is coming up, though.

It is meant for PocketPC though, though it can work on Smartphone the experience is not as good.

[hecatombercm]

Ive been looking for an app to turn HTC Fuze into a Wi-Fi repeater, but I have bluetooth on my laptop so this would in effect be a signal repeater for me. The bottleneck from wifi to bluetooth would be pretty heavy though Im sure.

[hecatombercm]

I discovered an app that seems to be able to do what you are asking for and most every other network sharing combo you can imagine. Its called ICS Control. It would be great to have a repeater app.

[gailh]

Hi guys

I have an iPaq 210 that I'd like to use as a WiFi card for an WinXP SP2 PC.
Here's my problem, which often happens (not always):

1. I turn on Bluetooth on the iPaq

2. I connect the PC to the iPaq using the "Explore my Bluetooth Places" wizard, then "Connect". It says "connected". Then on the XP "Network Connections" window, it says "acquiring network address", and shortly after: "connected". PC's IP address: 192.168.1.125, default gateway (the iPaq): 192.168.1.6. In fact, I've setup this static IP address on the iPaq using the ICScontrol utility. Both computers see each other and ping works both ways. In other words, BT PAN is up and working.

3. Here's the problem: I then turn on the WLAN (Wi-Fi). When the WiFi connects, ping stops working. Then I can't get to the Internet from the PC using the iPaq. "Network connections" still says: "connected" on the BT PAN network.

When I disconnect the WLAN, BT ping starts working again.

What to do?

TIA

Gail

[julian2596]

dont really know how to fix this

[gailh]

Can this point the way? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972305 ?

The problem is, that fix is for the system builder. Can someone suggest a registry setup or anything else?

[will_santana]

damn, looking exactly for this

wanna use my touch hd with a bluetooth only netbook

hope someone can do it

btw, wmwifirouter seems the closest to do it
can do 3g to bt, but wifi only to usb
:(

[]s

[wizdomsLizard]

On the topic of reverse tether heRe

Ubuntu netbook and Droid 2 Global

Yes the 3g connection works, turn on wifi and
it seems to fall apart. I think there might be
some ip conflicts or I could use a bridge adapter
or something on my droid phone that is configurable,
maybe like br0 for an interface name.

sounds good to me.

what exactly happens when wifi is turned on

ifdown ppp0 ?
ifup tiwlan0 ?

thats exactly what appears to happen first ppp0 there and tiwlan0 not then, touch icon and run ifconfig -a again and it is now the opposite. All ifb interfaces unchanged..

both bnep0 and tiwlan0 on same subnet and have different ip, but tiwlan0 gets dhcp and bnep0 I believe is static.. A routing table could help.

Do I need to add new modules? can this be configured?