wifi router out of an 810 using BTdun
 

Is there a way to make an 810 into a wifi hotspot type device using BT-DUN from say a cell phone. Using the tablet as a router and BT for net connection to your cell? That way one could use other wifi devices going though the 810 for connection sharing.
Don't know if anyone has ever seen an app like that or not.
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Re: wifi router out of an 810 using BTdun
 

An ad-hoc connection, sure. Putting the N8x0's wireless into AP mode... Not sure, but even if you could, it'd probably slaughter your battery (even worse than ad-hoc).

Re: wifi router out of an 810 using BTdun
 

How would that work practically? Sure, the Linux kernel can do the trick, technically, but are there ready-to-use scripts? A GUI?

Re: wifi router out of an 810 using BTdun
 

GUI? not likely since that is pretty niche.
Suggest practicing on a desktop linux box first. HostAP is what I've used in the past. But a cheap AP is better than HostAP is fun, slap a battery on an AP and forget killing the NIT as a router. And up here in the Great White North the cell data plans are so slow and so expensive I don't even own a cell phone much less tether the NIT.

Re: wifi router out of an 810 using BTdun
 

This is something which I would also like to do. Maybe I'll explain why so that you understand better.

I have a data plan for my cell phone: 10 gigs a month, up to 3.6Mbits/s download (HSDPA). Since it is tied to my SIM card, I can do the following:
-use bluetooth to connect the N810 to the Net via the phone
-use bluetooth to connect my Macintosh to the Net via the phone
-get the SIM card out of the phone, put it in a wireless router (about 200€) and be able to connect the Mac and the Nokia at the same time (and not be able to receive phone calls on my mobile number for the time that the SIM is in the router).

So: YES, being able to use the Nokia (or recycle the old 770 I have lying around) to distribute the Internet connection by wifi as soon as my phone is in bluetooth range would be great. Ideally, I would leave the 770 at work: as soon as I am there (with the phone), the 770 connects via bluetooth and all the devices I have with me get a wifi connection. All this with a single SIM card.



I know that battery life will be terrible, so I will have to keep everything plugged in. No big deal.

Re: wifi router out of an 810 using BTdun
 

Hmm so any idea how to start doing this? it would be nice to have a nice gui app.
But hell even a unix script to turn it on and off would be cool.

Re: wifi router out of an 810 using BTdun
 

Why connect everything when you can use the cell phone? It is surely more expensive to pay for the voice/data plan than a wireless only.

Re: wifi router out of an 810 using BTdun
 

I rarely use the phone part of the cell phone. I don't want the N810 to be online for voip, but for other internet applications.

Re: wifi router out of an 810 using BTdun
 

Unfortunately, it seems that to run a wifi card in access point mode, you'll need a prism chipset: this page here lists the requirements.


That leaves use with two solutions:

First one:
-use ad hoc mode explained here
-start the Internet bluetooth connection explained here
-add a route command to link the two interfaces.

Second one:
-use a wireless access point to create the network (and I have one lying unused...)
-all wifi devices (including the tablet which will be used as a router connect to the wireless network and get their own i.p.
-the tablet is configured as the default router
-the tablet is also connected to the Internet via bluetooth
-add a route command on the tablet to link the two interfaces

Re: wifi router out of an 810 using BTdun
 

This is not an answer to the question concerning the N800, but I just found that it is possible to directly turn some symbian smartphones into a wlan access point using a software called joiku. A different solution to the same problem...