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[deadphill]

has anyone got this working with a psp? I tried entering the details manually but no joy. Any ideas?

[Transform]

im still having problems making it connect in my connections list under wifi settings on my phone. anyone else got this problem?

[WearTheFoxHat]

Transform, on Jan 17 2008, 19:59, said:

im still having problems making it connect in my connections list under wifi settings on my phone. anyone else got this problem?

Yup ... earlier this week I had a three hour train journey to London ... so I thought "oooh I can setup WMWifiRouter and use my laptop to surf!"

When I set it up .. the one with network settings, the only thing is seems to do is lock onto my home wifi network.  So on the status screen it says "Connected ... WearthefoxhatNET".  Then when it is away from home it says "Connected WMWifiRouter" but the laptop wont connect to it.

Then when I disable it, and exit the application it seems to stop the phone from connecting to my home wifi.

I got rather frustrated at this point and uninstalled it ... and it still appears as a network on the phones list of available networks!

Now it seems its totally gone ... so I sent my g/f out to get a bluetooth dongle for my laptop ... then I can ICS over bluetooth and continue surfing!


It looked such a promising app too, and I know Chainfire resides on here ... but I just found it a little unpredictable in its actions.  Although I would still try later versions of it, especially when WPA is working properly and I can be certain that I am the only one using it!

[crazyc]

WearTheFoxHat, on Jan 18 2008, 17:38, said:

Yup ... earlier this week I had a three hour train journey to London ... so I thought "oooh I can setup WMWifiRouter and use my laptop to surf!"

When I set it up .. the one with network settings, the only thing is seems to do is lock onto my home wifi network.  So on the status screen it says "Connected ... WearthefoxhatNET".  Then when it is away from home it says "Connected WMWifiRouter" but the laptop wont connect to it.

Then when I disable it, and exit the application it seems to stop the phone from connecting to my home wifi.

I got rather frustrated at this point and uninstalled it ... and it still appears as a network on the phones list of available networks!

Now it seems its totally gone ... so I sent my g/f out to get a bluetooth dongle for my laptop ... then I can ICS over bluetooth and continue surfing!
It looked such a promising app too, and I know Chainfire resides on here ... but I just found it a little unpredictable in its actions.  Although I would still try later versions of it, especially when WPA is working properly and I can be certain that I am the only one using it!

I had it working on my laptop, but not without some effort.
I had the same issue with my home network being preferred, but then had to tell it to connect to adhoc networks only.
Also think I had to use a specific IP address on the wifi adapter. Cant remember.

[WearTheFoxHat]

crazyc, on Jan 18 2008, 17:43, said:

I had it working on my laptop, but not without some effort.
I had the same issue with my home network being preferred, but then had to tell it to connect to adhoc networks only.
Also think I had to use a specific IP address on the wifi adapter. Cant remember.

Yup that sounds about right.  For me personally, thats too much messing about with an app.  Id like it to connect at home via the home wifi.  Then if im out and about, and I enable the wmwifirouter, then it just comes on and connects.  

(I dont mind initial configuration work, but not every time I use an app).


Edit: Chainfire, I hope you see this as proactive feedback, rather than criticism, as it is a great app.

Edited by WearTheFoxHat, 18 January 2008 - 05:49 PM.

[dmr54]

Went to look for this app and the website advises downloads are not currently available

[mwright]

Does anyone have the latest (0.91) version of this?

The website is still saying downloads disabled at the moment.

[deadphill]

has anyone found any way of connecting this to a psp? Sorry to be a pain but this is something I think would be awesome, short of either sony making a psphone or a usb sim card mount !!

Thanks

Phill

[mwright]

Over on XDA I found this posting from Crossfire

"Due to legal issues the download is currently offline and I don't know when or even if it will be available again at this time. It's going to be a couple of weeks at least, though."


Looks a bit worrying doesn't it

[deadphill]

I wonder what the legal issues could be. this is just a program which makes it easier to make a router of a ppc as there was already a guide on how to do this on XDA.

The mind boggles!

Phill

[WearTheFoxHat]

It could be anything really couldn't it.  From "borrowing" code, using a registered trademark, to utilising ICS in a way its not designed to.

[mwright]

Looks like wmwifirouter has been "relaunched" as a commercial product

See http://www.wmwifirouter.com/ and also http://forum.xda-dev...ad.php?t=357152

He is still a bit vague about some things though!

Shame really

[PaulOBrien]

Hmmmm....

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[spv_dman]

This product crashed my phone a couple of times and just uninstalled it. With the numerous bugs that I have read in various forum, I guess this product needs a couple of bug fixes before it becomes a trusted mobile phone software.