windows xp will not connect to android wireless teather

cloudtp2 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-15-2011, 12:54 AM

my computer at work wont connect to my phone. its on windows xp,
the wireless adapter can see the phone but it fails to connect. i tryed many settings and still nothing.

any ideas?? how do learn what im missing??

im using the wireless teather app from the market. my phone is rooted and running midnight rom. it will connect to my home computer on windows vista.

**gTen** · #2 (**permalink**) 02-15-2011, 01:42 AM

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Originally Posted by cloudtp2

my computer at work wont connect to my phone. its on windows xp,
the wireless adapter can see the phone but it fails to connect. i tryed many settings and still nothing.

any ideas?? how do learn what im missing??

im using the wireless teather app from the market. my phone is rooted and running midnight rom. it will connect to my home computer on windows vista.

Are you able to connect to mass storage?

when you connect and go to device manager, do you see any drivers with warnings/errors?

cloudtp2 · #3 (**permalink**) 02-15-2011, 03:05 AM

i ment connecting to wireless tether. it connects fine with usb for mass storage. but today the internet was down at the shop. so i got the laptop out and decided to do wireless thethering, but it never connected. i tried different channels and settings but never connected. i dont know what settings to use. its a new labtop but it has windows xp. maybe 1 year old.

chrisnosleep · #4 (**permalink**) 02-15-2011, 03:33 AM

Will your XP machine connect to any other wireless devices, like any routers or access points? If not you might make sure your "Wireless Zero" config is set up in the XP machine.

**gTen** · #5 (**permalink**) 02-15-2011, 05:04 AM

What version of Android-Wifi-Tether are you using? have you tried the new 3.0 version?

What does the Android-wifi-tether log say? what does windows log say?

redshift · #6 (**permalink**) 02-15-2011, 12:21 PM

Wireless tether uses 802.1n. My XP laptop only had .1g. I had to create an ad hoc connection for the wireless tether to work.

cloudtp2 · #7 (**permalink**) 02-15-2011, 11:16 PM

the laptop does connect to the regular router. i think it has something to do with it connecting to .1g like redshift says. i dont know anything about routers and connection settings. about g's and n's.

**gTen** · #8 (**permalink**) 02-16-2011, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by cloudtp2

the laptop does connect to the regular router. i think it has something to do with it connecting to .1g like redshift says. i dont know anything about routers and connection settings. about g's and n's.

No thats not the issue..you would not be able to see the connection AT ALL if you don't have N..BUT this has reminded me something..on one of my laptops I had to Enable AdHoc N via the Adapter Driver settings for it to work...

You can also try the new Android-Wifi-Tether 3.0 if you havent..as its Infrastructure..