Use the E90 as a hotspot?

[mvvermeulen]

Hey guys,

Is it possible to have your E90 connect to the interweb using 3(.5)G and then share it over wlan to my laptop (and possibly others too)? It might not be as pretty a solution as just using USB or Bluetooth, but I somehow like the idea.

I can imagine the wlan chip only allows one connection, so it wouldn't be much of a "hotspot", but still.

I was just wondering if anyone would have any thoughts on this!

Anyone?

[swingerman]

Hi.

The e90 can't act as a gateway. However you can connect your e90 with USB and share the connection with your laptop or PC.

Cheers,

[russdog]

I was able to set-up a bluetooth connection between my phone and laptop, and use the data connection on the phone to surf the web. I used the "Connect your PC to the internet using your phone" feature in Nokia PC Suite.

Good luck.
Russ

[mvvermeulen]

Thanks guys,

These are the ways I go online now and it works fine. I must say I am so glad Nokia decided to drop the pop-port in favour of a normal usb connection because with my N70 en E65, connecting my phone over usb always led me to desperation.

Back to the hotspot theory, I was just wondering how this would work. You would somehow bridge your E90's 3.5G connection to its WLAN chip. I suppose you would need some piece of software on your phone that would do this bridging for you...

Anyway, if anyone else has any ideas please let me/us know! I'm sure there are more people that would like to try this. Right? Guys?

Maurits

[matchstick]

I've just stumbles across this
http://www.joiku.com/?action=product...product_id=310

Which does appear to offer a way to share a 3G connection via Wifi.

No idea if it actually works but if it does it would seem a solution to the original request.

[kontraband]

coulda found it on the AAS landing news page a few weeks back.

[matchstick]

Originally Posted by kontraband

coulda found it on the AAS landing news page a few weeks back.

Which was dated the 7th Feb, the day after my post

[leoni1980]

Ive tested joikuspot on an n95 8gb, a standard n95 and an e90 and neither of them would work with anything but a macbook. The best i could get with any of the notebooks i tried was the joikuspot homepage (really slowly) but it just kept re-loading the search page whenever i typed anything into the url bar. It didnt even work when i typed into the joikuspot homepage searchbar. Dont know if im doing something wrong but i fiddled about for ages on it to no avail. Im on t-mobile in the uk.

[anthoj]

Hi,

I have Joikuspot installed on my E90 and so far it works perfect with my Macbook Pro. I have yet to test it with a PC Laptop, so I am not sure if it does work. Basically, what it does is it broadcasts the 3G/EDGE network on WiFi as Ad-Hoc, not infrastructure. So, I don't know how well PC's are equipped to handle Ad-Hoc based Wi-Fi. People don't usually use Ad-Hoc to my knowledge. I've seen 2 or 3 out of hundreds of WiFi that is Ad-Hoc based.

[leoni1980]

Originally Posted by anthoj

Hi,

I have Joikuspot installed on my E90 and so far it works perfect with my Macbook Pro. I have yet to test it with a PC Laptop, so I am not sure if it does work. Basically, what it does is it broadcasts the 3G/EDGE network on WiFi as Ad-Hoc, not infrastructure. So, I don't know how well PC's are equipped to handle Ad-Hoc based Wi-Fi. People don't usually use Ad-Hoc to my knowledge. I've seen 2 or 3 out of hundreds of WiFi that is Ad-Hoc based.

I've used WMWifirouter, which is a windows mobile wifi internet sharing tool created by Chainfire. This too uses an Adhoc connection like Joikuspot. The difference is that WMWifirouter worked on everything I tried it with, whereas of the 6 laptops I have now tested with Joikuspot only the macbook worked. It's very frustrating. I'm hoping a developer on these forums will develop a better application soon, now we know it's possible. I don't entirely trust Joikuspot anyway and it has limited functionaity whereas WMWifirouter allows access to any site and use of every protocol.

[anthoj]

Originally Posted by leoni1980

I've used WMWifirouter, which is a windows mobile wifi internet sharing tool created by Chainfire. This too uses an Adhoc connection like Joikuspot. The difference is that WMWifirouter worked on everything I tried it with, whereas of the 6 laptops I have now tested with Joikuspot only the macbook worked. It's very frustrating. I'm hoping a developer on these forums will develop a better application soon, now we know it's possible. I don't entirely trust Joikuspot anyway and it has limited functionaity whereas WMWifirouter allows access to any site and use of every protocol.

Well, the question is, is there an alternative for Joikuspot on Symbian OS? This is for the E90 phone after all.

[matchstick]

According to here
http://www.joiku.com/index.php?actio...w&title_id=200
(I think you need to be registered on the Joiku website to read the link)
"Beta v1.1 will be released soon, it has helped a lot at least in the lab tests."

Hopefully this new version will get round the problem i've been having of not being able to get beyond the Joiku start page when I connect my laptop.

I can't imagine that they'll be able to change from using an Ad-hoc access point but tbh I've never seen a wifi implementation that wasn't able to connect to an Ad-hoc connection even if some drivers will be set up to ignore them by default.