Good luck covering your basement theater setup and your upstairs laptop at the same time.Ģ. You’re lucky if it can cover a big room at full speeds, and it certainly won’t cover an entire house. Range: The hotspot feature on your phone has limited range. There are several reasons it’s WAY better to tether you phone directly to your router, instead of just using your phone’s wifi hotspot feature.ġ. Prevent throttling of your Video streams (with a VPN).#2 – Share tethered connection w/ any router (works w/ 3rd-party tether apps).#1 -Tether directly to ASUS router (Official tethering only).The two methods for sharing your 4G data with your wireless router.Routers that support direct phone/4G modem tethering.
This method works with almost all routers, and is compatible with 3rd-party tethering apps (like PdaNet) the help users get around tethering data caps on unlimited plans.Īnd this guide will show you how to do both. Method #2: For all other router types (or non-official tethering apps) you can tether your phone to your computer via USB and then ‘share’ your tethered connection to the Router via an ethernet cable. You can even connect the router directly to a VPN (and you’ll probably want to) to prevent your mobile company from throttling your non-mobile streams (yes they can tell). This method works only with your carrier’s ‘official’ tethering method (unless your phone is rooted or Nexus). Method #1: There are several routers that let you tether your phone directly to the router using a USB cable, which keeps your phone charged, and lets your router handle the heavy lifting. The old method was to turn on your phone’s wifi hotspot feature, but that has really limited range and chews up your phones battery like crazy (not to mention shortening it’s lifespan if you do this daily).īut now there’s a better way… (well 2 actually).
So can you use your 4G unlimited data for your home internet connection? Cordcutting (and saving money) is hugely popular, and people are sick of paying for 2 separate data connections. 2017 has finally brought an explosion of ‘Unlimited’ 4G plans available from US wireless carriers.
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