Help How to share a wired internet connection when admin doesnt allow it

[ferlingote]

Hi!

I´m on a ship and would like to have internet on my phone. The internet connection is wired to my laptop however the network admin doesn't allow network sharing.

I have tried sharing the network through USB or by creating a hotspot with my PC, but it doesn't work since the admin has blocked it.

Is there any other way to access my phone apps?

I have tried to install an android emulator, but without much success so far
Other option would be to control the phone via the the PC through USB/hotspot; is this possible? I have seen apps like Airdroid that allow it, but they have to be installed first on my mobile

Thanks!

 

[mikedt]

They've disabled internet sharing via the ship's internet service, or something they've done to your laptop itself? Although sharing with a laptop may not work anyway, because that's Windows ad-hoc mode, AFAIK Android doesn't support that, only works with infrastructure mode WiFi, i.e. using a real hardware WiFI router AP.

If the phone is off-line, it's not going to install anything, except what APKs you download on the laptop, transfer and sideload into it.

I suspect they keep tight controls over what people do with internet on a ship, because presumably it's satellite, and so is very limited bandwidth and extremely expensive, probably Inmarsat.

Things like Airdroid, are really to allow you to control and access your phone over a network, but the phone has to be connected to the network, and via USB isn't supported, again AFAIK.