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As I mentioned in my review of the HTC Hero, tethering your Hero on the Sprint network is not really supported despite their manual telling you how to do it. And after some significant searching for solutions on Google, I stumbled upon the PDANet application. What a find!
Now before I give you the link to their site, you must know that the domain name is not what you would think. The domain name is JuneFabrics.com, seems weird for sure, but it is a great app. You can read the details of PDANet for Android and make your own decisions.
You can download a free trial there. And, you can use that trial forever on non-HTTPS sites. But if you want to use it for full featured browsing, you are going to need to pay for it.
In my opinion, PDANet for Android is worth every penny. At $29.00, I think you will get your money’s worth easily if you use your computer on any of the private wifi networks that you can subscribe to.
PDANet installed with no issues on my Hero and on my XP based business laptop. I read of some people having issues, but encountered none. The only issue I had was about a week in to my trial, HTC Sync started returning some strange errors. In my case, I just deleted HTC Sync since I don’t use it anyway.
If you use your laptop significantly at home and on the road, you might want to buy an extra HTC USB cord. I quickly found that I would leave it at home and be on the road with no way to tether. PDANet is useless to me without the cord!
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Still not quite good enough. I want to use my android phone as wireless hotspot for up to 5 devices, or 4 wireless and 1 wired. For free. And that just works.
I know I’m not the only one.
Some please make this app. Please! if android and the openness that comes with it is going to ever defeat the iphone, we need this.
I would save $60 a month if I could get it to do this. Right now I pay for a data card connection with Sprint because I live entirely too far from any CO to get DSL and will never be in reach of cable. I would surely prefer to hook an Android up as my router and route all of the Internet in my house up this route.
Given that I survived for years with no high speed, I won’t complain too much for now.
This is a great app, I’m using it right now and getting 330kb/s download speed with my HTC Hero on the 3 mobile network in the UK with my Mac. I needed it because tethering isn’t supported by Macs, you plug it in and it just doesn’t connect, but it does with this. Now I can use internet almost anywhere.
PDAnet works just fine without wires as a DUN over bluetooth
DUN over bluetooth does not work on my HTC Hero at all. I’ve not updated PDAnet in a while, so maybe a new version does, but not the version I am running.
I was connected and i received a Call to my phone. The sms agent was active in my pc and i received a txt from the mobile company to call . Should i disconnect the sms agent to be safe….?
I use PDANet on my HTC Evo 4G with no problems. I have 4 out of 5 bars and just ran a test @ 3.72 Mb/s Down & 0.77 Mb/s Up. I can’t believe I didn’t find this app sooner!
I cannot for the life of me get this to work on my Hero (2.2 Android) over Sprint. This is so frustrating.
What issues are you having Tom? Did you read their FAQ? If I don’t do it in the right order I have issues (tether phone, turn on pdanet on my computer, start the pdanet app on the phone — and choose to enable USB tether, choose the pdanet icon in my computer tray and click connect). Every once in a while I will have issues (maybe once a month) that resolves itself when I restart my laptop.
I’d have to generally rate pdaNet pretty high.
Hi,
I’m a HTC Tattoo user. While following your instruction to prepare my phone, I run into a problem. After installing openVPN, I was asked to install TunnelBlick which I did too. However, from there on, I do not know how to download the client.ovpn file. Could you kindly explain explicitly how to do this steps?
Thanks