View Single Post
Posts: 8 | Thanked: 3 times | Joined on Feb 2013 @ Brasov, Romania
#1
Hello all,
I would like to know if it is possible to make the N900 a WiFi / WiFi HotSpot.
I read a lot of posts about this feature request but none from what I read offers a reliable / doable solution for this (I might skipped unintentinally some posts so please, if you find relevant information on this, feel free to contribute, and link to those posts if you feel to do so). I felt the need of specifying this because I don't want to write Yet Another Post About This as there are quite a few about it. Now my problem:

I'll divide this post on several parts for the ease of reading:

1) Motivation:
- PROS: Sometimes, I need to connect all my gadgets (smartphone, tablet etc) to the Internet. I wish to do that through the N900 WiFi connection, because I don't want every time to setup each of my gagets individually for every new WiFi connection I find with: SSID, username, passwords etc.
Instead, I setup only one WiFi connection on each of the gadgets, that would be N900, and on N900 I setup only one current WiFi, and voila! I will allways have on my gadgets the N900 connection which allows all my gadgets to get internet through N900.
-CONS: A lot of power drained from the N900 (that's still doable with an Y cable and a charger). I don't mind about power drain, If it holds for a few hours while I finish the urgent need to Internet Connection, that's fine.

2) Requirements:
- What do I need in order to do this? Which packages, which kernel, what hardware: what cables, which USB stick (and drivers) should I purchase to be supported by power user 51 kernel (as that is the kernel I'm in right now).

3) Implementation:
- What exactly has to be done to achieve this, and then, how can it be narrowed down to a script or even a standalone app for others to use at ease.

4) Mentions:
- I'll update this post along with the new info that comes in, to reflect all that needs to be done to achieve a N900 WiFi / WiFi HotSpot.

5) Useful related posts:
- Qt Mobile Hotspot
- N900 USB router

Thanks in advance to contributors.

Last edited by ChiefRA; 2013-03-01 at 17:46.
 

The Following User Says Thank You to ChiefRA For This Useful Post: