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Old 07-26-2007, 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by midibach
I'd really love to see an app that could route and nat IP, run a DHCP server, and assign an SSID to the WiFi. That would be the holy grail. Then I could just launch this app on the phone and connect with my laptop using a standard wifi profile.
... making the phone a WiFi hotspot.

It's been talked about for a while, and I agree that it would be the grail. Unfortunately, it's apparently not possible. Luv2Chill posted this a while back:

http://www.ppcgeeks.com/using-my-apa...135.html#39311

which explains why. Closest I have gotten is to tether my phone to my laptop and then set up Internet Connection Sharing on the laptop to share via WiFi to other WiFi laptops.
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