how to use usb dongle stick to create a wifi for my phone and other devices

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I have a usb 3g dongle with no simcard to access the internet

which router is best which could also charge my phone
 
Solution
Your questions are confusing your talking about multiple different questions here


Okay first Wifi and 3G (below) are NOT the same thing.

Wifi is a short range signal limited to a building, like Starbucks, your house, the library, etc. mainly for computer devices to connect 'wireless' to the installed Internet point. The 'building' has Internet, but we don't want wires all over the place to the devices connecting to it.

3G or 3rd Generation CELLULAR service is a long range signal piped off towers to cellular accessible devices normally cell phones, that allow MORE then just voice (telephone calls) but to send and receive a Data connection for Internet...
Your questions are confusing your talking about multiple different questions here


Okay first Wifi and 3G (below) are NOT the same thing.

Wifi is a short range signal limited to a building, like Starbucks, your house, the library, etc. mainly for computer devices to connect 'wireless' to the installed Internet point. The 'building' has Internet, but we don't want wires all over the place to the devices connecting to it.

3G or 3rd Generation CELLULAR service is a long range signal piped off towers to cellular accessible devices normally cell phones, that allow MORE then just voice (telephone calls) but to send and receive a Data connection for Internet services from the host service to the cell device no matter where it is IN RANGE of the cell signal.

Being that specific, a " usb dongle stick to create a wifi " were sold for laptops and desktops that didn't have Wifi cards installed already. These were made normally for WINDOWS OS based devices ONLY. So a iPhone uses iOS, Android uses Android OS, and so on, which doesn't understand nor 'smart' like Windows to use the same USB dongle stick to access Wifi for a Cell Phone and 'other' Cell Devices. Also it would NOT provide your TV, BluRay, etc. with "wifi" either, as they too don't understand what that USB Dongle thingy is or how to use it. SOME USB Dongles were 'wired' to be compatible with XBOX and Playstations (other devices) to make them 'wireless' than having wires 'everwhere'.



As noted 3G is a CELLULAR SERVICE, meaning like ANY service you want (someone mow my car, someone make me a latte, someone give me Internet, etc.) you need to PAY for it (simcard) in someway to 'access' 3G, whether for Internet or not. If you have a USB 3G Dongle, these would be for Computer Devices that do NOT have highspeed Internet nearby (wired) nor hotspots (wifi) but can get Cell service and want Internet. With the USB 3G Dongle is the SERVICE PROVIDER's information, which when accessing the website of the company will NORMALLY lead you to buying 'SERVICE' for THAT USB 3G Dongle.



A router does NOT normally have a USB port, and if it does it is NOT for 'charging devices'. Use a Wall Outlet USB power jack if you need to power a phone. A router connects (as noted above) Internet service from a provider (DSL like ATT, FIOS like Verizon, CABLE like TimeWARNER) to ROUTE the Internet to / from multiple devices using either wired (ethernet) or wireless (wifi). Your phone would HAVE to have WIFI (would be listed as 802.11A, B, G or N) built INTO it to 'access' the Wireless of the router, IF the router has wireless capability.
 
Solution
If what you have is a 3g broad band modem that is on a USB stick you "might" be able to find a router that you can use this as a WAN connection.

Since these normally require drivers to be loaded to a PC and you can not load a driver to a router it means the router must already contain the driver.

There are a number of manufacture that are starting to support these. You need to search for 3g/4g broadband router. Then you need to search the list of supported USB devices and get a exact match both for the hardware as well as the ISP. Some ISP are jerks and do not release their drivers.

This is the list from ASUS
http://www.asus.com/event/networks_3G4G_support/

TPlink also has a fairly good list of supported devices. Netgear and dlink also are starting to support this also. If you get no luck there you can try cradlepoint they specialize in this but tend to be expensive. dd-wrt also has a huge list of supported devices but you have to be comfortable loading firmware to a router to use third party images like dd-wrt.