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Originally Posted by SaltyDawg
Even if it said that, it means the same thing. If you are accessing your own home network via WiFi, then your own home network WiFi router also has access to your Evo via WiFi.
Communication has to be 2 way in order for it to work.
Evo to home router: I want to see this website.
Home router to Evo: Here it is.
Not much different from
Router to Evo: I want to see this website.
Evo to router: Here it is.
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eh... not really... the difference here is that the phone, like many phones now, have a wifi antenna, which allows to connect to wifi signals, and then access that network for data reception (instead of the phones cellular data signal)
that is wifi
then you have mobile hotspotting...which is what clearwire currently has, who sprint is working with....
this is allowing you to take your phones cellular data signal and allow other devices with wifi antennas to access the stream.... transferring cellular data signal, through the phone, making your phone act as a router, and then picking up this signal on another device, to have broadband connectivity speeds
you can clearly see there are two very different things going on here
if you connect 8 laptops to your phone's hotspot, all accessing 4G data... its going to be a lot of data transferring through
thus, sprint is charging $29.99 per month to activate this feature... THIS feature
they will not ask you to pay 29.99 to connect to your home's wireless router and enjoy quicker speeds, it has no relation to sprint's data streams...in fact, it takes strain off of their network
these are two different types of wifi, and it will be easy to block your phone from acting as a wifi hotspot, while still being able to access your local starbuck's wifi signal
plus in your example, what does it matter if your router has access to your phone's wifi? your router is not going to use the cell signal to process data...it is strictly for hotspotting..where your device is working as a transmitter....
TL;DR in wifi use, the phone is a receiver of data only, using broadband wifi signals the same way your laptop would in order to stream data to the laptop / phone...in hot spot use, the phone is a transmitter and receiver of data, acting as a router itself, but instead of the router receiving signal through fiber optic or cable lines, it is receiving it through the 4G sprint towers