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Other => Other => Topic started by: John1397 on January 18, 2018, 06:12:14 AM
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Can one connect to internet with phone thru computer with internet access using usb cable and I use LG optimus zone 3 phone?
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What you want is often be called 'Tethering'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethering
Here is a general answer.
There are three ways to use a phone to connect a computer to the Internet. All three methods require the phone to be more that just a simple phone. I shouod be a modern smartphone with suitable OS and hardware.You can connect by:
- using a Bluetooth connection from phone to PC
- using a USB from phone to PC
- using the phone as a 'hot spot' and connecting to the PC via Wi-Fi.
More more information, go to the Google Play store and look for
Hot Spot
USB Tethering
Bluetooth Tethering
Examples:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mkdev.usbtethering2&hl=en
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wifi.hotspot&hl=en
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.aynari.app.bluetoothtethering&hl=en
Similar things can be done with the Apple iPhone.
Apple owners look at this:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203302
With a Personal Hotspot, you can share the cellular data connection of your iPhone or iPad (Wi-Fi + Cellular). If you need help with Personal Hotspot on an iOS device, follow these steps.
IMO the Bluetooth tether has to be the most innovative. I have used it and found it to be very good 8)
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I think the OP wants to do the opposite Geek, connect the phone to the internet via the computer.
The easiest way to do it would be to create a wifi hotspot on the computer and then connect the phone via wifi. To do that would require that the computer have wifi capabilities. In order to tether the phone using a USB cable, you need to use an app that is designed for tablets to connect to phones such as "EasyTether Tablet" which you can find in the Google Play store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=easytether.tablet&hl=en (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=easytether.tablet&hl=en)
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+1 to Strollin's Computer Wifi Gateway method if adding a wireless access point for wifi direct from internet connection is out of the picture. Such as if a laptop had a 3 or 4G connection and you wanted to share the internet connection with other devices, then adding a wireless adapter and setting up the computer to share as a gateway connection could be done.
If you have ability to add a wireless access point or wireless router, then doing that would be a better solution, but i am guessing thats not an option and instead need to set up internet connection sharing through the PC and a wireless NIC. The computer would need 2 network adapters last I knew. One that connects to the internet and the other to connect to other devices with the computer acting as the gateway.
I havent messed with setting anything like this up since Windows XP and connecting a single computer to a dial-up connection and sharing that internet connection over Cat5 100mbps peer to peer network with another computer as a gateway connection many years ago when dial-up was all my area had 16 years ago and both my wife and I wanted internet connection without the cost of adding another phone line and paying for another AOL account. When one or other was bringing up a web page it wasnt that bad. But when both were bringing up webpages at the same time it was slower through the dial-up straw connection to the WWW river of data.
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I just go to the coffee shop....or the Pub... 8)
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Another way would need adapter to connect cat 5 cable with internet to smartphone if possible
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Another way would need adapter to connect cat 5 cable with internet to smartphone if possible
Here is a video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uisnj8Xufp0
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I'm gonna try that
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Can one connect to internet with phone thru computer with internet access using usb cable and I use LG optimus zone 3 phone?
Just wondering, why do this? Why not just use the computer for your internet access?
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Just wondering, why do this? Why not just use the computer for your internet access?
My guess is that the phone has very low data allowance and the OP wants to transfer files to or from it.
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Just wondering, why do this? Why not just use the computer for your internet access?
I do not have no plan for my smartphone only can use it in towns where there is free wifi sometimes something needs to be done on smart phone only this should work good in about a month when adapter comes from china will give it a try.
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What exactly has to be done on the smartphone ? ?
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Sometimes they want you to do a survey on a smart phone if you use any thing else they seem to know it is not a smart phone, I would think it is same as computer I have seen where they know what operating system I am using and browser.
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This is all to do an online survey ? ?...for what ?
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Lots of places do surveys just type in best places to do surveys at home, have been a member of AC Nielsen since 1993 back then some surveys were still sent out on paper now it's all computer.
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So why are you doin them on your phone ? ?...i'm still confused as *censored*...
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I wouldn't do them on a phone it's just that some places want you to do them using a smartphone maybe they want to see how good you can use a smart phone. That small screen is always harder to use than big monitor. It would be nice if they made a 20" monitor that instead of using a mouse you just use your finger like on a smart phone.