How to tether your Android phone via Wireless Hotspots, USB cable and Bluetooth

Today, I am going to drop something of importance to most android users here in my country and possibly Africa as large, Internet connectivity has been a major problem over the years, in fact many cybercafé has switch from (VSAT) to mobile telecommunication ((GPRS, EDGE or G’s)) company for the continuity of their businesses which is quite understandable but not reliable. Thank God all these mobile network providers now provide 3G services on Smartphone’s which make the problem lesser.

FAQ?

1:-     Are you at the airport and realized there’s no WI-Fi to access the internet?

2:-     Are you in a hotel room without WI-Fi or with restricted access?

3:-     Do you know it might be wrong to subscribe on phone and modem at the same time?

4:-     Do you know your Smartphone gives you edge above modem and other connection mediums?

5:-     Do you know its more secrecy to tether your phone than accessing your account over hotspot?

6:-     Do you know you can tether service via Bluetooth?

          Let’s get the job done…

Things required…

           1.     An android phone

           2.     Internet or data plan

           3.     Pdanet app & system executable file (details later)

           4.     Wireless card or USB cable or Bluetooth hardware

           5.     A “PC” either laptop or Desktop

I will like to start with the least, let’s choose Froyo 2.2 as case study since most phone that run on this platform are Google based devices.

     So I will also like you to check your network terms and conditions on tethering, but here, fuck terms, fuck conditions.

     Here’s is how to tether Google android handset running Froyo 2.2 while it’s similar for all later platforms even till 4.1 jelly Bean.

Step 1:

     Visit ‘play store’ from your android home screen menu (i.e. launch android market application on your phone), search for ‘Foxfi’ or “Pdanet+”, download and install on phone

Step 2:

     Visit http://pdanet.co/a/ and download the desktop version for your PC whether running Windows (XP/Vista/7/8) or Mac, install it and you will have an icon in your notification bar.

Step 3:

     Launch Foxfi on your phone and mark your desire connection mode (i.e there are three modes of connection: Wireless Hotspot, USB or Bluetooth), the service must immediately get started on your phone.

Step 4:

     Right click on the Pdanet+ icon located at the bottom right side of your desktop screen (i.e. notification bar) and left click on either of the connection methods, it must show something like ‘setting up broadband’, ‘verifying phone Internet’ and ‘connected’. Depending on the language your PC speaks

That’s it, you are good to go, I recommend USB connection due to it privacy, not too many people can hack the connection and grant maximum speed since you are not sharing it or its not been hack somewhere else, unless you intend sharing it yourself.

From FAQ5:

Because you get bandwidth of up to 1Gbps
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