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Root Wireless Tether in Infrastructure Mode

Lordvincent 90 said:
with my 360 directly tethered to the phone, it gave me a message about the connection being too slow. bridging it through laptop bypasses this message, but as mentioned, only kinda works. And my ping varies greatly (between 180-1700:eek:) depending on time of day and which way the wind blows lol
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I get between 300-700 kbps usually with a 100-150 ping consistently. I can play Xbox without losing connection but I have a steady red bar.
 
Yea, just one tower by my house. Works much better everywhere but home. one in a blue moon I can pull 2100 mbps. But not often and not for long. My down is usually similar to yours (slightly lower) but my ping just fluctuates badly. usually around 400-600 but it's all over the place
this is with speed test, on the phone
 
I'm stuck here, I had this working and I was surfing on my Iconia A500 tablet with the tethered network from my prevail, but now all of a sudden I can't get on the internet with the tether anymore. I didn't change the settings or anything, a reboot didn't fix the issue, reinstalling the app does nothing. I have the profile set for the indulge, changed the setup to softap, disabled wifi driver reload, tried with the 3 most recent versions of the app, all to no avail. I can get my laptop to connect to the network, but with no internet access, the tablet doesn't connect at all. I changed my DNS settings to the DNS of my phone, and tried to enable and disable encryption. Hopefully that's enough detail for anyone to help me out, I feel like I've tried everything so I'm pretty lost here. Oh, and my phone is rooted, so don't worry about that being the issue. Also I'm not using a custom rom, just a straight rooted prevail. Alright, I think that's everything...
 
try this, go to menu>acess control and touch the box in the upper right corner that says enable, and when the device shows up place a check in the box and press apply
 
No luck, but that seemed to get me closer. The "no internet connection" went away, but I don't actually have internet access.
 
No luck there either, plus it's getting late and I have to be in to work early tomorrow so I'm just gonna post my settings and check any responses if I have time before work tomorrow.

Settings:Profile Galaxy S
Method Softap
No encrpytion
Default SSID "AndroidTether"
Not hiding SSID
Channel Tried "Auto" and "6"
Don't disable Bluetooth isn't checked
Wifi driver reload isn't checked
Enable access control is checked
Automatic shutdown not checked
LAN network is 192.168.2.0
Routing fix is not checked
Preferred DNS is 8.8.8.8
Alt DNS is 8.8.4.4

Ad-hoc tethering with Barnacle is working with default settings, I have 3g coverage where I am trying to tether from so I do have connectivity through the phone, and like I said int he beginning, yesterday wifi tether was working on my laptop and tablet. Hopefully you see something I can't. Thanks for your help so far!
 
Still no luck with that version. I only tried with default DNS settings. Could that be the case? I'm still getting the "no internet connection" message upon connection.
 
pdazzo91 said:
Still no luck with that version. I only tried with default DNS settings. Could that be the case? I'm still getting the "no internet connection" message upon connection.
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If you search around there are a few people that reported the same, they added the dns and it worked.
I never needed it so I could not say for sure.
 
Thread is being closed because of Boost Mobile's Official Term's of Service regarding wifi-tethering:

http://androidforums.com/boost-mobile/455626-boost-mobiles-official-tethering-policy.html

According to the Boost Mobile's Terms of Service (ToS) available at http://support.boostmobile.com/service_policies/terms.html

Boost Mobile's official policy about tethering is
Specific Terms & Restrictions On Using Data Services
If your Services include Web or data access, you also can
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Thanks for reopening the thread most of the prevails tethering talk was confined to this thread and the ones that werent were pointed to this one very quickly
 
The ironic thing is that since I.learned more about this phone and started using Swype, and PHANDROID or TapATalk, I don't tether nearly as much anymore.

But tethering alone is reason enough to root and pay the Boost fee.

Has anyone gotten Forum Runner to work with AF?
 
Hello,

Joined the forum to alert everyone to an issue I had and solved with WiFi tethering. If you find yourself able to connect to your phone but with limited connectivity, this may be due to DNS issues. To confirm, see if you can do the following:

ping google.com
ping 8.8.8.8

If the first command times out but the second one does not, then you have DNS issues. You must change the preferred and secondary DNS servers in the Android WiFi tether settings to Boost Mobile DNS servers. I was able to determine the appropriate DNS servers for my Prevail through an adb terminal:

getprop | grep dns

For me, the turn out to be:

66.1.124.132
66.1.124.133

After this change, I had no issues.
 
82iNqcQP said:
Hello,

Joined the forum to alert everyone to an issue I had and solved with WiFi tethering. If you find yourself able to connect to your phone but with limited connectivity, this may be due to DNS issues. To confirm, see if you can do the following:

ping google.com
ping 8.8.8.8

If the first command times out but the second one does not, then you have DNS issues. You must change the preferred and secondary DNS servers in the Android WiFi tether settings to Boost Mobile DNS servers. I was able to determine the appropriate DNS servers for my Prevail through an adb terminal:

getprop | grep dns

For me, the turn out to be:

66.1.124.132
66.1.124.133

After this change, I had no issues.
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Im having this exact same problem with my zte warp. I can send out a infrastracture signal & Im able to connect, but it wont let me on the internet. I have the ZTE Warp, so how do I access the adb terminal to find the appropriate DNS servers for it? Also what settings did you use?
 
tjonline1991 said:
Im having this exact same problem with my zte warp. I can send out a infrastracture signal & Im able to connect, but it wont let me on the internet. I have the ZTE Warp, so how do I access the adb terminal to find the appropriate DNS servers for it? Also what settings did you use?
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You can run the same command in any terminal emulator from the market.
 
I too was banging my head until I read this thread and finally the post by 82iNqcQP (thank you). I too had to change the DNS settings within the app, wifi tether. Now, my Transformer can connect to my phone's wifi signal and surf the web. Sweeeeet!

Here's what I did: (to clarify and sum it all up for any who may be helped...)

With a rooted Samsung Galaxy Prevail,

  • On PC (or phone), Download android-wifi-tether from here (direct link) and copy it to your SD card (if on PC).
  • On phone, open File Manager, locate the file you downloaded (Download folder or somewhere on SD card) and install it.
  • Go to Play Store (Google Market) and search for "abd terminal emulator" app and get one. I used the free one listed first.
  • Open the abd emulator and you get a command prompt.
  • Type:
  • get dns
  • Within the text, you should see the Boost Mobile DNS servers #s you'll need. There are a few, The ones you want are paired together and look like mine below. Write them down and exit the app.
  • Mine are:
  • 66.1.0.132
  • 66.1.0.133 (Yours should look similar)
  • Open the wifi tether app, open settings,
  • Open "Device-Profile"
  • set to Samsung Galaxy Indulge
  • Open "Setup-Method"
  • set to Softap for Samsung (master)
  • Open "Change preferred DNS"
  • set to ...1st # string you wrote down (mine was 66.1.0.132)
  • Open "Change alternate DNS"
  • set to ...2nd # string you wrote down (mine was 66.1.0.133)

    Tether should now work for tablets. Set up encryption within app.

    To Prevent wifi from turning off at phone sleep...:
  • Press Menu hard-key (enter phone settings)
  • open "Settings"
  • Open "Wireless & Networks"
  • Open "Wi-Fi Settings"
  • Press Menu hard-key
  • Open "Advanced"
  • Open "WiFi Sleep policy"
  • set to Never
After changing those settings, the tether works for everything. Android tablet, laptop, desktop... In fact, I'm posting from my desktop connected through my cell-tether now. :D
 
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