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Old 11-24-2011, 12:40 PM   #1
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Has anyone tried to tether the Fire to a smartphone for those times that WiFi isn't available?

Just curious, it's not a deal breaker for me, just a curiosity thing.
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In general terms, it won't work because the Kindle Fire cannot support Peer-to-Peer (adhoc) networks, only structured networks. It's an unusual limitation for an Android device, and is why some devices like the Wi-Drive need special drivers.
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Good thread. I think this is being updated so it will work with the Fire:
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/

http://androidforums.com/lg-esteem/4...e-no-wifi.html

I will be trying this soon.
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Old 11-24-2011, 01:14 PM   #4
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Has anyone tried to tether the Fire to a smartphone for those times that WiFi isn't available?

Just curious, it's not a deal breaker for me, just a curiosity thing.

Phones that are Wi-Fi hotspot enabled should work with the Fire. Just like any other Wi-Fi hotspot.

Here is some information that may come in handy. It is from a MobileRead forum member who was trying to use an iPhone 4 as mobile hotspot with their Entourage Pocket Edge which is an Android based tablet. They got it to work without any rooting (jailbreaking) their phone or the Android tablet.


I am posting this via being tethered to my iPhone. You are not going to believe what the problem was --appostrophes; as in my phone's name being Dee's iPhone. I had this niggling feeling they might have been screwing something up, but it wasn't until I read the link above about ad-hoc networks and it said right there in black and white, "apostrophes may render the network unreadable." I renamed my iPhonee and BANG! got in. I still had to do some tweeking, like reset the PE and turn my hotspot on and off before I made a real connection.



This is from another Pocket Edge owner who successfully tethered their Android tablet to an Android smart phone:

Just to let folks know the PE establishes wifi connection just fine with phones that are wifi hotspot enabled. Nexus S comes to mind. Anyone else have experience with this?



So yes, it should be possible.

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I used Personal Hotspot on my iPhone to connect the Fire and it worked perfectly.
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Old 11-25-2011, 09:15 AM   #7
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In general terms, it won't work because the Kindle Fire cannot support Peer-to-Peer (adhoc) networks, only structured networks. It's an unusual limitation for an Android device, and is why some devices like the Wi-Drive need special drivers.
This has been my experience. When tethering, my phone broadcasts as Ad-Hoc, rather than Infrastructure. My laptop can connect to it, but the Fire does not see it at all. Still testing.
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Tethering the Fire to my LG Optimus V (VirginMobile prepaid) hotspot works perfectly.
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Old 11-25-2011, 11:25 AM   #9
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After digging in deeper, my understanding is the Fire does not support Ad-Hoc connections. Apparently most newer phones support Infrastructure connections when tethering, but not my old original Droid.
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Old 11-26-2011, 02:56 PM   #10
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I was able to connect to my Samsung Galaxy SII, however, discovered something ugly, Tmobile blocked it on my new cellphone. If was working on my 4G Android Sidekick. But thats a different issue.



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My 4G Sidekick works. I guess I will have to keep it as backup Android cellphone or device. That one runs Froyo, Galaxy SII runs. Gingerbread.

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Old 01-05-2012, 10:06 AM   #11
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I have an android LG Optimus Slider, and this download worked like a charm:
http://code.google.com/p/android-wif...3_1-pre110.apk
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I tether to my droid bionic all the time. Careful that some data plans have a 2gig download limit. I'm grandfathered under the old limitless data plan. Good thing because I tried some Amazon Prime Instant Videos and that upped my normal 500mg data usage to 3.6gig pretty quickly.

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Has anyone tried to tether the Fire to a smartphone for those times that WiFi isn't available?

Just curious, it's not a deal breaker for me, just a curiosity thing.
My Samsung Galaxy S2 allows the KFire to run things at what it says is 5-6Mbps (I'm near San Francisco, which has AT&T's 4G or a hybrid version of it, though I'm across the bay). The Link speed is seen as 65Mbps vs my Home router's 56Mbps on a Netgear N300. I played video on the KFire at a dog park and there was no stuttering of video at youtube.

AT&T supports the tethering, at $20/mo. add'l and it's worth it for me. I ran a Kindle Fire and a Kindle Touch and Kindle 3 at the same time with no slowdowns that I noticed. The KFire was doing video.

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AT&T supports the tethering, at $20/mo. add'l and it's worth it for me.

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That's the part I don't get it

Why pay if should be or can be free? That's the only reason why I have not sold my 4G Sidekick, because supports tethering without any rooting, free of charge,

I hate AT&T ...
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