I've come extremely close to pulling this off but (no surprise) haven't succeeded completely. Read on . . .
I'm poor right now but I have an Android tablet and wanted to figure out some way to share my slow dial-up internet connection with my Android WI-FI tablet for the few occassions when I want to use it live and don't want to have to drive down to the library just to (for example) update my Android apps. I don't surf on my Android, but I do play games on it, and I'd like my scores to be tallied so I can earn points to get game add-ons & customizations free.
Where I live has CAT-6 jacks installed instead of normal phone jacks (long story), so I long ago got hold of a crimper in order to make my own telephone wires and use my landline service with standard phones. I crimp one end of the line to an RJ-45 jack (these are the fatter ETHERNET jacks just for the uninitiated and the other to a standard-sized landline telephone jack. An old guy at Home Depot taught me this, and said to just feed in the two inner wires to that RJ-45, it'll be kinda loose (cause it's looking for a bigger wire) but it will work. It does!
My old PIII has a serial 56k modem that works like a champ for my browsing needs, so I made one "combo" line (as described above) for the WALL-TO-MODEM connection, and a second combo line for a MODEM-TO-ROUTER connection. I bought a cheap little Sapido WI-FI router for this experiment.
I fooled around with my little Sapido while on the internet through my desktop serial modem (over the dial-up landline connection I described above) and to my astonishment actually got into what they call their AP Mode & WI-FI AP Mode . . . on my little Android tablet. I couldn't believe it when my tablet not only recognized Sapido's IP address, but let me get in there and set up my Station ID, Password etc.
You have to understand I know nothing about networking. Zip. Nada.
So where I'm at right now is that my Android Tablet shows the little SSID I created -- and recognizes my password -- but then just kind of sits there lol. It shows me on the network, but the desktop internet connection doesn't pass through to my tablet.
Have I finally reached the limits of this experiment? Was it just too much to hope for that I might be spared having to constantly go down to the library for their free WI-FI just to update my little tablet? I'll take a deep breath and wait to receive my answer, but man this has been fun.
fm
I'm poor right now but I have an Android tablet and wanted to figure out some way to share my slow dial-up internet connection with my Android WI-FI tablet for the few occassions when I want to use it live and don't want to have to drive down to the library just to (for example) update my Android apps. I don't surf on my Android, but I do play games on it, and I'd like my scores to be tallied so I can earn points to get game add-ons & customizations free.
Where I live has CAT-6 jacks installed instead of normal phone jacks (long story), so I long ago got hold of a crimper in order to make my own telephone wires and use my landline service with standard phones. I crimp one end of the line to an RJ-45 jack (these are the fatter ETHERNET jacks just for the uninitiated and the other to a standard-sized landline telephone jack. An old guy at Home Depot taught me this, and said to just feed in the two inner wires to that RJ-45, it'll be kinda loose (cause it's looking for a bigger wire) but it will work. It does!
My old PIII has a serial 56k modem that works like a champ for my browsing needs, so I made one "combo" line (as described above) for the WALL-TO-MODEM connection, and a second combo line for a MODEM-TO-ROUTER connection. I bought a cheap little Sapido WI-FI router for this experiment.
I fooled around with my little Sapido while on the internet through my desktop serial modem (over the dial-up landline connection I described above) and to my astonishment actually got into what they call their AP Mode & WI-FI AP Mode . . . on my little Android tablet. I couldn't believe it when my tablet not only recognized Sapido's IP address, but let me get in there and set up my Station ID, Password etc.
You have to understand I know nothing about networking. Zip. Nada.
So where I'm at right now is that my Android Tablet shows the little SSID I created -- and recognizes my password -- but then just kind of sits there lol. It shows me on the network, but the desktop internet connection doesn't pass through to my tablet.
Have I finally reached the limits of this experiment? Was it just too much to hope for that I might be spared having to constantly go down to the library for their free WI-FI just to update my little tablet? I'll take a deep breath and wait to receive my answer, but man this has been fun.
fm