Subj : Re: Introduction ...
To   : Ed Vance
From : Blue White
Date : Mon Mar 11 2024 07:48 am

 > After having DSL and Fiber Internet failures here I thought a Android
 > phone
 > could be attached to my XP box and I could be using the phones Data
 > feature
 > with a REAL keyboard and Multimail as I had normally done B4 internet
 > failed
 > here.
 > 
 > According to Microsoft Support a XP ot Vista PC can't do that.
 > 

It might be that, while you cannot plug the phone directly into the
machine to share the internet, you might still be able to use the phone.

(1) if your machine supports wireless or, if you have an ethernet port,
you can find a wireless dongle for it, your phone might be able to act as
a wireless hot spot to supply internet for your pc.  Your phone and/or
provider may or may not support the phone-as-a-wireless-hotspot so you'd
have to figure that out first.

(2) some mobile providers will sell you a wireless hot spot device that
will allow you to use your mobile plan to provide internet to your
household.  This would likely also require to you find a wireless dongle
to plug into the pc to accept the signal.

I have never tried using my mobile plan to provide internet to another
device, but I have seen others do it, and I have received offers from
providers in the past for the wireless hot spot device.

I have used a wireless dongle on a Thinkpad laptop that was just old
enough not to have wireless built it.  The machine thought it was an
ethernet connection and it worked great.  The one caveat here is that you
have to be able to access the dongle, either via software or a browser
interface, to get it set up before you can use it.  If it requires
software, you will need to be sure the software is compatible with your
OS.

Once they are programmed to "point to" the proper wireless signal, they
are usually OS independent and can be plugged into any device that will
accept an ethernet connection (and that has a free USB port available to
power the device).



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