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redheadplantguy

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May 10, 2011
323
36
Louisville KY
hello everyone. just wanted to share a little trick i figured out.
occasionally i run short on bills, and broadband gets cut off.
lovely thing i found out how to do is, feed my mobile data into my home router.
i do this through laptop. pretty simple.
1: tether phone to computer
2: go into windows network settings.
3: click change adapter settings.
4: highlite your tether and your lan both. hold ctrl and click each of them.
5: right click and "Bridge Connection"
6: plug a lan cable from computer ethernet into line IN on router.
7: Wifi through whole house WITH ports for wired connections.
8: DANCE AND GIGGLE FOR SCREWING THE BIG CORPORATIONS!

quite useful if you have the unlimited lte like i do. i've used over 70 gb in a month before running everything.

if you like this, click thanks please.
 

elesbb

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Jun 20, 2010
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hello everyone. just wanted to share a little trick i figured out.
occasionally i run short on bills, and broadband gets cut off.
lovely thing i found out how to do is, feed my mobile data into my home router.
i do this through laptop. pretty simple.
1: tether phone to computer
2: go into windows network settings.
3: click change adapter settings.
4: highlite your tether and your lan both. hold ctrl and click each of them.
5: right click and "Bridge Connection"
6: plug a lan cable from computer ethernet into line IN on router.
7: Wifi through whole house WITH ports for wired connections.
8: DANCE AND GIGGLE FOR SCREWING THE BIG CORPORATIONS!

quite useful if you have the unlimited lte like i do. i've used over 70 gb in a month before running everything.

if you like this, click thanks please.

Bridge networking has been popular for awhile ;)

Its how i use both my Tether speeds AND my dad's home WiFi ;) 1MB per second download.
 

redheadplantguy

Senior Member
May 10, 2011
323
36
Louisville KY
Bridge networking has been popular for awhile ;)

Its how i use both my Tether speeds AND my dad's home WiFi ;) 1MB per second download.

of course it has. but there are always people who haven't heard about it.
i've never seen anything in here about it and it's incredibly useful with T Mo's unlimited 4g.
the lovely thing about the web is we all share. even reshare, to help fellow peeps.
:)
of course, there are also drawbacks too.
for instance, people can be snippy and snide to amuse themselves.
but hey. take the good and the bad, right?
 

leo9891

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Jan 12, 2012
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Deltona
Thanks for this! I've heard of bridging, but never understood/never bothered to find out more about it. This could be useful.
 

Kem-El

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Apr 6, 2010
116
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Do they throttle your data speed? (Does it show up as mobile hotspot usage?) With my cable internet, I stream Netflix and Hulu and use about 85-100gb a month. I'd like to get rid of cable if I could just upgrade to the unlimited data plan and use that instead.

Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
 

mnazary

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May 16, 2013
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Is there a way to just bridge my phone to the pc? The router is on the opposite side of the house from my computer.

Sent from my SGH-M919 using xda app-developers app
 

redheadplantguy

Senior Member
May 10, 2011
323
36
Louisville KY
Do they throttle your data speed? (Does it show up as mobile hotspot usage?) With my cable internet, I stream Netflix and Hulu and use about 85-100gb a month. I'd like to get rid of cable if I could just upgrade to the unlimited data plan and use that instead.

Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

I have the unlimited 4g. Depending on what Rom and such you run, very easy to tether without them noticing.
 

redheadplantguy

Senior Member
May 10, 2011
323
36
Louisville KY
Is there a way to just bridge my phone to the pc? The router is on the opposite side of the house from my computer.

Sent from my SGH-M919 using xda app-developers app

There are some tutorials on how to use Windows laptop as a WiFi router on Google.you can usb tether, perhaps. I bridge phone to router to get much greater distance than phone alone can manage.
 

gregorina

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Oct 21, 2011
156
8
I thought you had limitations on how much tethering data you could have with the unlimited plan?
 

gregorina

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Oct 21, 2011
156
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Well for some reason my tethered data is hidden from my company laptop but not my personal desktop at home. How are you hiding your data? I tried the link you posted but I get an error when using the tethering app. And others in the thread say the same thing.
 

Michael Hill

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May 4, 2014
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Manata
You can take action with this process for GS4...........
I bridge phone to router to get much greater distance than phone alone can manage.

There are some tutorials on how to use Windows laptop as a WiFi router on Google.you can usb tether, perhaps.
 

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    hello everyone. just wanted to share a little trick i figured out.
    occasionally i run short on bills, and broadband gets cut off.
    lovely thing i found out how to do is, feed my mobile data into my home router.
    i do this through laptop. pretty simple.
    1: tether phone to computer
    2: go into windows network settings.
    3: click change adapter settings.
    4: highlite your tether and your lan both. hold ctrl and click each of them.
    5: right click and "Bridge Connection"
    6: plug a lan cable from computer ethernet into line IN on router.
    7: Wifi through whole house WITH ports for wired connections.
    8: DANCE AND GIGGLE FOR SCREWING THE BIG CORPORATIONS!

    quite useful if you have the unlimited lte like i do. i've used over 70 gb in a month before running everything.

    if you like this, click thanks please.