I have found a killer app for my phone. This is one reason why I went for the N95 8GB in the first place, for software like this to crop up and make it well worth the investment! WalkingHotSpot turns a wifi-enabled smart phone (like mine) into a wifi router! They’ve just released a trial version. It’s pretty much install, fill in a couple of settings and run. It sets up an ad-hoc wifi network, which can be secured if need be. The trial version allows only 1 connection at a time. I had a small issue with it not working initially but I was using the wrong Internet connection settings on the phone, oops. (Everything else connects via the other lot of settings, so who knows what the difference is.) It works like a dream now, so I might be able to use a bit more of that monthly 120mb I get from Vodafone.
I noticed when I loaded sionide.net, that the header image was quite poor quality. Apparently most 3G/GPRS traffic is filtered through a lossy HTTP proxy in order to cut down on the amount of traffic you use. It was also fairly slow when I tested it just now but I don’t live in an area covered by 3G..
No more messing about with annoying sharing the phones Internet connection over Bluetooth or across a USB cable, something I never even bothered to get working because it looked so.. needlessly complex. This is the perfect solution for “proper” Internet, when out and about.
Virtually all mobile internet providers, 3G or otherwise, use a lossy compressing HTTP proxy
-Dx
Thanks for the info *edits*
What type of wireless security does it support mate? Just WEP? It’s competitor Joikuspot doesn’t support any encryption at all last time I checked - pretty dodgy since some kid in a cafe could burn through my (still fairly) expensive 3G data quota very quickly with just a couple of torrents
@xMachina: Yeah just WEP, but that’s definitely better than nothing. It might be easy to hack but it’s enough of a deterrent, besides you might not be in one place that long..
i love it i love it and again i love it… just connected now with whs in cambridge on a Three connection. Three blocks some sites through policy (grr) so I use the tiny Ultra Surf Proxy to “free my internet”… Ultra Surf was originaly made for the chinese but it seems we in the “developed world” also need it…