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Hello, I'm sorry if this is a duplicate or in the wrong place, but I looked and found no answer; I'm literally at the end of my tether, pun intended.
So let me explain my setup.
I pay for a T-mobile USA family plan with 5GB of hotspot data, and unlimited mobile data. The billing cycle just restarted and so I should have unrestricted hotspot data. I have my Sony Xperia Z2 running the latest updates (4.4.4 IIRC)* I have my Toshiba satellite laptop running Windows 7/Ubuntu 14.04 in dual-boot. I also have my wife's Toshiba satellite running Windows 8. Any configuration involving my Sony Xperia with stock firmware and its built in tethering settings app/tile, connected to my laptop (in either OS) results in the following:
I am only able to connect to SSL websites (with https:// as opposed to http://) as long as I use the Sony Xperia phone tethered to *my* laptop. If I tether it to my tablet, my wife's laptop, or my brother-in-law's phone, it works as expected. I took out my SIM card and placed it in my old Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone and that makes it work just fine - so it's not a carrier issue.
Is there any way to have the tethering app of the built-in Sony firmware *forget* any sort of association it may have with my laptop? It seems to be the only explanation for why these two devices would all of a sudden (about two weeks ago) stop communicating and playing nice together.
If I connect my laptop to a public WiFi then it works. If I connect my laptop to my wife's phone tether, it works. If I plug in a USB wifi device to my laptop and connect to my phone tether that way, it doesn't work. It seems to be any wifi link between my laptop and my Sony just does not compute. No matter which way you slice it.
This has had me wracking my brains for two weeks now and I just can't figure it out. I think of myself as quite experienced with tech in general but this has me stumped.
I'm imagining that restoring the Sony phone back to a previous version of factory-default software would probably allow it to work again but I really don't want to have to do that. So any ideas for clearing the memory of the built-in wifi tethering would be helpful!
Thanks for any help
* I'm not able to tell the Sony's software version numbers right now since it's switched off and I'm using my Galaxy Nexus (old phone) as a tether with my T-mobile SIM - no problems!
So let me explain my setup.
I pay for a T-mobile USA family plan with 5GB of hotspot data, and unlimited mobile data. The billing cycle just restarted and so I should have unrestricted hotspot data. I have my Sony Xperia Z2 running the latest updates (4.4.4 IIRC)* I have my Toshiba satellite laptop running Windows 7/Ubuntu 14.04 in dual-boot. I also have my wife's Toshiba satellite running Windows 8. Any configuration involving my Sony Xperia with stock firmware and its built in tethering settings app/tile, connected to my laptop (in either OS) results in the following:
I am only able to connect to SSL websites (with https:// as opposed to http://) as long as I use the Sony Xperia phone tethered to *my* laptop. If I tether it to my tablet, my wife's laptop, or my brother-in-law's phone, it works as expected. I took out my SIM card and placed it in my old Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone and that makes it work just fine - so it's not a carrier issue.
Is there any way to have the tethering app of the built-in Sony firmware *forget* any sort of association it may have with my laptop? It seems to be the only explanation for why these two devices would all of a sudden (about two weeks ago) stop communicating and playing nice together.
If I connect my laptop to a public WiFi then it works. If I connect my laptop to my wife's phone tether, it works. If I plug in a USB wifi device to my laptop and connect to my phone tether that way, it doesn't work. It seems to be any wifi link between my laptop and my Sony just does not compute. No matter which way you slice it.
This has had me wracking my brains for two weeks now and I just can't figure it out. I think of myself as quite experienced with tech in general but this has me stumped.
I'm imagining that restoring the Sony phone back to a previous version of factory-default software would probably allow it to work again but I really don't want to have to do that. So any ideas for clearing the memory of the built-in wifi tethering would be helpful!
Thanks for any help
* I'm not able to tell the Sony's software version numbers right now since it's switched off and I'm using my Galaxy Nexus (old phone) as a tether with my T-mobile SIM - no problems!