[Noisebridge-discuss] Android question: I want to share, via wifi, my Internet connection. What's the best way to do this?

[Michael Shiloh]

Just out of curiosity, what exactly does "rooting" do?

On 06/08/2011 02:31 PM, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
> It's hard to share IP connectivity over wifi without rooting your
> phone or having it baked into the vendor image.
>
> However, it is possible to run applications that will connect out to
> the web and expose a SOCKS proxy or other application-level connection
> redirection.
>
> I've run Cyanogen mod for a while, which makes WiFi-based tethering
> easy, but in the past I've had good luck with Tetherbot
> (http://graha.ms/androidproxy/).
>
> Cheers,
> jof
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Michael Shiloh
> <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> ATT will sell me this option, but I hear there is a free way to do it,
>> turning my wifi card into an access point. I perused the "free"
>> applications in the "marketplace" (my god there are many) but I couldn't
>> find it there, not that I expected to.
>>
>> Can I do this without rooting my phone? I do intend to root my phone at
>> some point, but it's not pressing and I don't really have the time right
>> now.
>>
>> Where does one go for this stuff?
>> What do you use?
>> Are you happy with it?
>>
>>
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