[Hidden-tech] Tether Netbook to 3G Android for Data Service

[Levi Ramsey]

Accidentally replied only to poster, but others may find this useful.
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From: "Levi Ramsey" <leviable at gmail.com>
Date: Jun 28, 2012 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Tether Netbook to 3G Android for Data Service
To: "Mark Kurber" <mkurber22 at gmail.com>

It's easy if you're paying for tethering from your carrier: Settings |
Wireless & Networking | Tethering and Portable Hotspot.  IIRC Sprint has
the OEMs remove support for tethering from their builds of Android, so this
approach doesn't work if you've got a stock Sprint phone.  I've also heard
that HTC tends to disable tethering across all carriers, but can't confirm
(I've been a Samsung loyalist).

If you've roooted a (non-Sprint) phone, you can enable tethering without
the carrier necessarily knowing about it (I suspect that Android doesn't
e.g. manipulate TCP sequence numbers or play around with TTL; this means
that a carrier could do packet analysis to discover that you're tethering
and send you a nastygram.  If you're on Sprint, you'll probably have to
install a new build of Android (it's mostly free/libre open source, after
all) like CyanogenMod (this will probably void the warranty, though)

There's also an app in the Play Store (fka Android Market) called FoxFi.
It doesn't work on Sprint or on HTC phones, but it doesn't require any of
the above steps.  Enabling tethering becomes: start FoxFi, set your network
name and password and check Activate Hotspot.  That should get a new WiFi
network to show up on your netbook: connect to it as you'd connect to any
other wireless lan.
On Jun 28, 2012 10:37 AM, "Mark Kurber" <mkurber22 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Anybody tether a netbook to a 3G android for data service ? How does it
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