"Tethering" without the data/internet

[Lucozade412]

Hi all,

Is it possible to connect my PC to my phone's wifi hotspot without data being enabled on my phone? I understand the main reason of doing this is to tether and allow my PC to use my phone's internet but what if I only want my phone and PC to be connected wirelessly?

I've tried this using a wifi hotspot and it seems to only work when the data is enabled, as soon as I switch the data connection off, the wifi hotspot connection also seems to be automatically disabled - is there any way around this?

Thank you for any help.

 

[girolez]

Hi

If you have your PC and phone connected to the same wifi network (eg at home) then you can do data transfer over wifi quite easily. If you do not have a wifi network for them both to connect to, you can create one.

Assuming you dont have a wifi network:

Install ES file manager
Go to the "network manager"
Create a hotspot from there - it will give you an SSID and password. Connect to it on your PC. I find that using an app on the PC such as Filezilla really makes it easy as it shows both devices file trees next to each other.

If you do have a wifi network, use that option in ES file manager. There are other apps that do this - a few are called FTPserver..

Roger