USB Tether to Ethernet Adapter - Essential Phone Questions & Answers

II would like to USB tether my PH-1 to my router using an ethernet to USB adapter. To use USB tether you apparently need a powered USB connection. Is there a way around this so I can tether to an ethernet adapter?

I'm not sure what you mean by tether, but if you're just trying to get an Ethernet connection for your PH-1, I got a simple, unpowered USB-C to Ethernet adapter off scamazon for about $10. It works great. Much faster D/Ls than any wifi.

AyUaxe said:
I'm not sure what you mean by tether, but if you're just trying to get an Ethernet connection for your PH-1, I got a simple, unpowered USB-C to Ethernet adapter off scamazon for about $10. It works great. Much faster D/Ls than any wifi.
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AyUaxa, can you tell be the exact procedure you use to connect your USB-C ethernet adapter? It sounds like you use a different method than Hotspot & Tethering -> USB Tethering.

Garvinr said:
AyUaxa, can you tell be the exact procedure you use to connect your USB-C ethernet adapter? It sounds like you use a different method than Hotspot & Tethering -> USB Tethering.
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1. buy one of these, using scamazon smile to benefit a charity: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00M77HMU0/ref=sspa_mw_detail_5?ie=UTF8&psc=1&pldnSite=1&th=1
2. plug dongle's male USB C into PH1s female USB C. maybe carry them around in the same pocket for a while, go for coffee or dinner or something, so they get to know each other first. if either isn't cisgendered, make appropriate apologies.
3. plug a good ethernet cable into an open port on your router and the other end into the female ethernet port on the dongle. at this point, don't worry about the niceties--routers are easy and the dongle's already committed.
4. Use pulldown on PH1 to turn off wifi and 4G to confirm internet connection through ethernet. There should be a <--> icon in the status bar.
5. Surf internet at high, wired speed until battery dies. I don't think it's necessary to turn off wifi and 4G to get the ethernet connection to work, but since battery life is an issue, unless you've got a USB C splitter that allows you to charge while connected to the dongle, I turn those off to conserve battery.
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AyUaxe said:
I'm not sure what you mean by tether
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I am pretty sure the OP wants to do the opposite of what you are suggesting... Tethering usually means using the data connection of the phone to provide the internet access to the other device(s). Typically, this is done by setting up the phone as a WiFi hotspot, but the idea here is to use the wired Ethernet connection to the router instead, so all devices connecting to the router would use the internet connection shared by the phone.

kt-Froggy said:
I am pretty sure the OP wants to do the opposite of what you are suggesting... Tethering usually means using the data connection of the phone to provide the internet access to the other device(s). Typically, this is done by setting up the phone as a WiFi hotspot, but the idea here is to use the wired Ethernet connection to the router instead, so all devices connecting to the router would use the internet connection shared by the phone.
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kt-Froggy is correct, I want to share my phone internet connection with my router. Thanks

You figure out a way to hook up to router
Wanting to do the same thing, and that is, provide internet service to router through cell phone.
Any suggestions on how it may be done
Garvinr said:
kt-Froggy is correct, I want to share my phone internet connection with my router. Thanks
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gramicko said:
Wanting to do the same thing, and that is, provide internet service to router through cell phone.
Any suggestions on how it may be done
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A USB-c to ethernet cable... Then plugged into the incoming port on the router...

Use my mobile data plan for home
Since I have true unlimited data plan with carrier I plan to use Essential exclusively as a hotspot phone to provide internet through a router AP for the house. Looking for an adapter to hardwire to router -act as access point- and that the phone is charged while in use. I've tested through wifi and it works through an Asus router, but I want to see if I get better speed if hardwire to router.
Thanks for the information I'll look into it.

You might also consider getting a USB splitter that allows your ph-1 to charge while USB Ethernet tethering.
I did this for a period of time with a different phone and having it plugged in continuously for a few months, it wrecked the battery and not sure if it was related, but the screen got all funky.
My alternate plan to remedy that was to use my phone's wifi hotspot, installed Open-WRT on a spare rPi I had laying around (maybe you can install it on your router if you check out their compatibility list?) and then I set up a Tasker event to automatically turn on a WiFi-enabled plug when my phone got down to 20% battery.
I suppose you could do the wired Ethernet adapter with a USB splitter and a WiFi-enabled smartplug if you're die-hard about having it wired.
I might also recommend putting your router in bridge mode (or at least disable the DHCP server) so your phone is giving out IP addresses, so you don't have a bunch of extra translation. LTE and WiFi have enough latency, adding another layer of NAT probably won't help if you're doing anything time-sensitive like gaming.
Just my 2¢.
Good luck!
(Might I inquire what service you're using that provides unlimited data? I was grandfathered in to an old Verizon contract with true unlimited data but unfortunately the contract owner was swindled by a sales rep to "upgrade to a new plan that would save [you] $15 a month" ? so I'm in the market for a new contract (or even prepaid if such a data option exists. I'm currently testing Google Fi, but the PH-1, being a compatible phone, not "Designed for Fi" I'm stuck on TMO which has almost no service in my area so unfortunately I don't think I'm going to be able to stick with Fi))

I have "Sprint Unlimited Family" supposedly true unlimited until 50gigs then may be throttled down based on congestion of network.
Tried Asus RT-AC68U router as AP through USB 3.0 cable and it worked perfectly. Need to look into tasker to see if it works so phone is not always charging
jake5253 said:
You might also consider getting a USB splitter that allows your ph-1 to charge while USB Ethernet tethering.
I did this for a period of time with a different phone and having it plugged in continuously for a few months, it wrecked the battery and not sure if it was related, but the screen got all funky.
My alternate plan to remedy that was to use my phone's wifi hotspot, installed Open-WRT on a spare rPi I had laying around (maybe you can install it on your router if you check out their compatibility list?) and then I set up a Tasker event to automatically turn on a WiFi-enabled plug when my phone got down to 20% battery.
I suppose you could do the wired Ethernet adapter with a USB splitter and a WiFi-enabled smartplug if you're die-hard about having it wired.
I might also recommend putting your router in bridge mode (or at least disable the DHCP server) so your phone is giving out IP addresses, so you don't have a bunch of extra translation. LTE and WiFi have enough latency, adding another layer of NAT probably won't help if you're doing anything time-sensitive like gaming.
Just my 2¢.
Good luck!
(Might I inquire what service you're using that provides unlimited data? I was grandfathered in to an old Verizon contract with true unlimited data but unfortunately the contract owner was swindled by a sales rep to "upgrade to a new plan that would save [you] $15 a month" so I'm in the market for a new contract (or even prepaid if such a data option exists. I'm currently testing Google Fi, but the PH-1, being a compatible phone, not "Designed for Fi" I'm stuck on TMO which has almost no service in my area so unfortunately I don't think I'm going to be able to stick with Fi))
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Garvinr said:
II would like to USB tether my PH-1 to my router using an ethernet to USB adapter. To use USB tether you apparently need a powered USB connection. Is there a way around this so I can tether to an ethernet adapter?
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Since some time there is an ethernet therthering option on my note 10+ 5G.
I use it to as an uplink on my router.
I initialy used an old usb A ethernet dongle with an adapter.
I recenly got some poe to usb c pd adapter from aliexpress, about 80$ a pice.
This way my phone gets power and can sharw its ethernet connection over just one cable.
Because my router is just a vm, and all ports to it are just v-lans i can easy configure 1 ore more of the ports of my poe switch to be wan.
Side note: i use openmptcprouter for wan bonding, i get near 100mb/s dl and ul in the country side, just using 3 lte modems and my phone in ethernet therthering mode.

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How to make EVO act as router?

My EVO is rooted with custom Evio 1.5 ROM.
Now my question is, I thought that you could have it so that th EVO acts a wireless hotspot for other devices.
Now, I know that you can have it act as a hotspot and transmit the 3G/4G signal as a rotuer.
BUT, I thought it was possible to make it so the EVO could share the wireless signal that it is connected to, to other devices.
Sorry if this sounds confusing, but I live in an apartment complex with free wifi, but it requires you to open up a browser and it redirects you to a page where you enter some info and it gives you a free "account" to access the internet. Well, my friend wants to go on Xbox Live and well, the 360 does not have a browser to enter the information, thus the wifi blocks his 360.
My EVO picks up the wifi just fine (because it has a browser) so I thought it would be a good idea, to receive the wireless signal and transmit it to his Xbox 360 as a different router but still using Wireless speeds.
I swear that when I was messing around with my EVO that I could share my wireless internet with other devices, but I thought it was a useless tool, because if the device can already connect to WiFi, then why does it need to connect to my EVO. But now, I see a good use for it, but for some reason I cannot figure out how to do it.
3G is a lot slower than our WiFi, and we don't have 4G in Rochester, MN.
Does anyone know if there is a way for the 360 to bypass it, or know how to transmit a wireless signal from the phone and turn it into a router.
Maybe this will help
http://www.videojug.com/webvideo/how-to-get-an-internet-browser-on-an-xbox-360-game-console
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I don't think that it is possible. There is only one wifi radio. Either it is using wifi to be a client, or as the hotspot or tether application a host.
Think that you would need two wifi devices, like a notebook or desktop running wifi and using the ethernet port running Internet sharing plugged into the back of the Xbox using ethernet or possible using ethernet from your PC into a router.
I work for a company that installs systems similar to the one probably being used in your apartment complex. Devices on our system (Nomadix) are authenticated by MAC address. Have you tried to spoof the Xbox's mac address on a computer, sign in to the web and then attempt to connect with the 360?
AFAIK you cannot both connect to an access point and broadcast a signal for another device to connect to. I know that you CAN connect to an access point and USB tether. You can also connect a laptop to the free wifi and share the connection to the xbox with a cat5 cable.
download "wireless tether pre 11" and use it to play xbox live, i used myn the other night for about 5 hours and only burnt through 20 some megs, um if you dont have wifi on your xbox, use a laptop and pic up the signal with it and plug in an ethernet cable to your xbox from your laptop. that will also work, it is a bit slower than your net in your apartment, as i was only getting two to three bars the whole night.
DonutGrunt said:
My EVO is rooted with custom Evio 1.5 ROM.
Now my question is, I thought that you could have it so that th EVO acts a wireless hotspot for other devices.
Now, I know that you can have it act as a hotspot and transmit the 3G/4G signal as a rotuer.
BUT, I thought it was possible to make it so the EVO could share the wireless signal that it is connected to, to other devices.
Sorry if this sounds confusing, but I live in an apartment complex with free wifi, but it requires you to open up a browser and it redirects you to a page where you enter some info and it gives you a free "account" to access the internet. Well, my friend wants to go on Xbox Live and well, the 360 does not have a browser to enter the information, thus the wifi blocks his 360.
My EVO picks up the wifi just fine (because it has a browser) so I thought it would be a good idea, to receive the wireless signal and transmit it to his Xbox 360 as a different router but still using Wireless speeds.
I swear that when I was messing around with my EVO that I could share my wireless internet with other devices, but I thought it was a useless tool, because if the device can already connect to WiFi, then why does it need to connect to my EVO. But now, I see a good use for it, but for some reason I cannot figure out how to do it.
3G is a lot slower than our WiFi, and we don't have 4G in Rochester, MN.
Does anyone know if there is a way for the 360 to bypass it, or know how to transmit a wireless signal from the phone and turn it into a router.
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Spoof your computer mac address to that of you 360. Activate, then connect 360
Or use a laptop to connect to wifi, then a bridge ethernet cable form laptop to xbox.
or you could (insert something that was already said four posts up).
illogic6 said:
I work for a company that installs systems similar to the one probably being used in your apartment complex. Devices on our system (Nomadix) are authenticated by MAC address. Have you tried to spoof the Xbox's mac address on a computer, sign in to the web and then attempt to connect with the 360?
AFAIK you cannot both connect to an access point and broadcast a signal for another device to connect to. I know that you CAN connect to an access point and USB tether. You can also connect a laptop to the free wifi and share the connection to the xbox with a cat5 cable.
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Haha, that's hilarious, the service that our apartment uses is Nomadix.
Thanks for the help guys, got it all figured out
illogic6 said:
or you could (insert something that was already said four posts up).
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Same thing donut grunt said also, but he said cat5 which is an ethetnet cord, I just said so ppl would understand. But good deal, how did you fix your issue?
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Help Wirelessly Providing Internet to Wireless Router, to Client PCs

its the start of a new year and im trying to get rid of/pay off bills i dont need.
Internet/cable/landline is one of them. Comcast has just gotten too expensive for my needs right now, so i shut it all off. So i'll be taking advantage of the internet im already paying for with sprint.. even though its 3g, i'll be going cold turkey by just internet browsing/paying bills/downloading small files, until 4G gets here.
So what i want to do is.. connect my phone wirelessly to my wireless linksys(ddwrt) router, and have computers in the house ethernet cabled to the wireless router. I cant afford wireless adapters right now, so the already installed ethernet connections will have to work.
Another thing im wondering, since the client pcs will be connecting to the router instead of all-at-once connected to the phone will it cut down on the heat the phone produces.. im hopeful. If i have to i can put the phone on a block of aluminum. lol.
So anyone with experience with ddwrt, linksys, and wirelessly using the phone as a modem-to-router, please educate me. Running myn rls 5.
Your going to run into a major problem here, your phone won't wirelessly talk to the router. You could have a computer act as a bridge, as long as that computer was on and had wireless.
crap.. im not looking to have my main computer on 24/7 just to provide access to the other computers.. sounds like im kinda stuck unless i put wireless adapters into all the computers, then tether straight to the phone???
gahhh..
yes it would. there are many threads about this on the dd-wrt forums. if you want to do wired tether to the router it would have to be one with the usb port.

Reverse Tether + Re Tether = How do I do it?

Basically I want to share my PC's internet to my Android phone via USB and then share the Android's internet to other WiFi enbled appliances via Android's WiFi as a hotspot.
PC Internet >>>--[USB]---> Android phone >>>--[WiFi Hotspot]--> WiFi clients
I progressed upto Reverse WiFi Tether where I can share my PC internet on my Android phone using USB connection but then enabling the WiFi hotspot on the Android phone doesn't share this internet to other WiFi clients (although the hotspot works and client's can connect, but no internet access/data transfer).
For those wondering why would I dig a pond to fill it;
a. I don't have WiFi (trans)receiver on my PC;
b. My Android phone doesn't have a RJ45 port;
For those even wondering: I don't want to buy a WiFi (trans)receiver for my PC either.
SKJoy2001 said:
Basically I want to share my PC's internet to my Android phone via USB and then share the Android's internet to other WiFi enbled appliances via Android's WiFi as a hotspot.
PC Internet >>>--[USB]---> Android phone >>>--[WiFi Hotspot]--> WiFi clients
I progressed upto Reverse WiFi Tether where I can share my PC internet on my Android phone using USB connection but then enabling the WiFi hotspot on the Android phone doesn't share this internet to other WiFi clients (although the hotspot works and client's can connect, but no internet access/data transfer).
For those wondering why would I dig a pond to fill it;
a. I don't have WiFi (trans)receiver on my PC;
b. My Android phone doesn't have a RJ45 port;
For those even wondering: I don't want to buy a WiFi (trans)receiver for my PC either.
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I'm not sure how to go about doing that, it might be cheaper just to go buy a cheap wireless router.
Any idea how to do the opposite? I want to use my phone to connect to a wireless network and send the network connection back to my computer that doesn't have WI-fi.
It might just be cheaper to buy a wifi card for your computer.
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Reilly1812 said:
It might just be cheaper to buy a wifi card for your computer.
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As soon as I can figure out how to stick a wifi card on my pi
How u Can reverse tethering place mentioned all steps plzzzzz
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lgoldstein said:
As soon as I can figure out how to stick a wifi card on my pi
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Curious. What does it have for networking?
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Curious. What does it have for networking?
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It just has an on board RJ45 Network connection. The problem that I'm running into is I want to use it to stream movies onto my TV in the living room, but my router is located in the kitchen and the wife has told me I'm not allowed to run a network cable across her house
lgoldstein said:
It just has an on board RJ45 Network connection. The problem that I'm running into is I want to use it to stream movies onto my TV in the living room, but my router is located in the kitchen and the wife has told me I'm not allowed to run a network cable across her house
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On a train for another hour at least. I will reply after I get to the office. Pretty sure Cisco/Linksys makes a box that gives you wifi access via RJ45. Have one and I know it works. Just not sure of vendor and model.
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Sorry - long day. Try a Linksys wireless bridge. I have the WET610N. Newer models on their website.
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I don't want to buy a router + I don't want to buy an access point... Why? I have enough of them
I just want to make an android a WiFi router (not for mobile data please) or a WiFi extender...
How... how... how...
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Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64
SKJoy2001 said:
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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You must have seen my post before changing to delete. Had an idea that I then rejected.
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Plz say something about reverse tethering.
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[Q] how to do USB internet or simple reverse tethering (as in Xiaomi redmi 1s)???

In Xiaomi Redmi 1s & some other phones, i've seen an option in settings as USB internet which simply allows us to use the internet from PC on our phone via USB cable... I know it's possible doing reverse tethering on our phone using terminal emulator & scripts but it's a tedious process. Can anyone make an app or make a setting in our phone to do reverse tethering easy as on above mentioned phones? (i don't have wifi access & 3g costs like hell for unlimited usage here :crying
ujilraj said:
In Xiaomi Redmi 1s & some other phones, i've seen an option in settings as USB internet which simply allows us to use the internet from PC on our phone via USB cable... I know it's possible doing reverse tethering on our phone using terminal emulator & scripts but it's a tedious process. Can anyone make an app or make a setting in our phone to do reverse tethering easy as on above mentioned phones? (i don't have wifi access & 3g costs like hell for unlimited usage here :crying
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Check this out. I use this very often. Device needs to be ROOTED!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2287494
You can also buy Leoxsys 150 Mbps Nano WiFi USB Wireless Adaptor (LEO-NANO150N), there seem to be many varieties available, be sure to buy the one that has WiFi with Hotspot.
This micro device plugs into the USB port of your PC and transmits your PC internet into WIFI, which you can latch on to using your handset.
It is cheap, have been using this for more than a year. I dont have a router, this works better than a router, though the range is less.
click on thanks if I have helped.
schubeir
The link provided by u have been already tested successfully by me, but it's kinda tedious process everytime u need to connect... I'm looking for an easy solution for USB reverse tethering, which needs no additional gadgets...

Repurposing phone as a wifi repeater

Hi, I've been using one of these big, ugly dual band wall plug wifi repeater/travel router for a while. It sometimes feels like it has a little too much on it's plate and needs to be rebooted/reconfigured all the time.
I recently got a Nexus 6p, and still have a perfectly working Nexus 5. I feel bad about it not being used, since it's such a great device. Then I realized....maybe I can use it as a wifi repeater! There wasn't anything in the default settings menu to create a hotspot AND remain connected to another hotspot on the Nexus 5. I did try it in tethering mode, and WOW the N5 performed much better than the crappy wall plug repeater. The only problem is getting it to create the wifi network....I've tried the fqrouter2 ap but it ends up giving errors, probably because it doesn't support the newer OS version.
Is there a way, with ap or script that I can make the phone connect to a 5ghz network and say, create a 2.4ghz hotspot?
What about tethering to ethernet? I was able to tether the wifi to usb with amazing results....maybe use an adaptor to get it to pass internet to an external router?
Any thoughts?:silly:
As a novice, my initial thought is that if there is only one wifi radio inside the Nexus 5 it can only either connect to wifi or broadcast, but not both. Asfor using ethernet, I can't see why not, using a usb otg cable, and then connecting a usb to ethernet adapter, and finally feeding that ethernet cable to whatever you wish, but I have not tested such so may the odds be ever in your favor
I've seen it done using the fqrouter app, just not on the N5. I've done similar stuff with computers running windows and linux as well. It may have one radio, but that radio has 2 bands. Maybe one band broadcasts a hotspot and the other talks to the main router? You are right though, having just one radio makes it a pain whether it's possible or not.

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