{"id":6259,"date":"2008-01-11T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/wmwifirouter.html"},"modified":"2008-01-11T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T10:00:09","slug":"wmwifirouter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/wmwifirouter.html","title":{"rendered":"WMWifiRouter"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most incredible software packages I have come across in quite some time is WMWifiRouter <\/a>which enables Windows Mobile devices to become WiFi access points, sharing the EVDO connection with a number of others. Although the software allows ad hoc connections instead of infrastructure I found no negative effects from this minor oddity.<\/p>\n

As Tom Keating wrote recently<\/a>, I did install this software on my phone for a number of reasons. One of the main ones is because I would like to use the Nokia N800<\/a> tablet computer away from areas that have WiFi. You have no doubt read me go on and on<\/a> about how useful the N800 is… The main problem with the device continues to be the lack of cellular access.<\/p>\n

Now, I can easily run the WMWifiRouter software on my XV6800 <\/a>and an instant access point is created for the N800 and other devices to share.<\/p>\n

In addition, during trade show set up (before internet is running in the convention center) at ITEXPO<\/a>, TMC can now use our Windows Mobile devices to create instant access points for others to share.<\/p>\n

As you might imagine, Verizon is not happy about this because they have their own "tether" service which allows you to pair a Windows Mobile device with a single other computer via bluetooth. This service requires you to pay a monthly fee and in addition limits your data connection to a single device.<\/p>\n

If there is a downside to the WiFi sharing service it is that when you receive a phone call the data connection is killed and the one time this happened to me I had to reboot the phone to allow it to start sharing the wireless connection.<\/p>\n

In addition, there is obviously a tremendous battery drain involved when using the service so have spare batteries and\/or a power cord nearby. In addition your device will get fairly hot after a few minutes. I have noticed when using WiFi on the XV6800 before getting this software that sometimes the phone also runs hot.<\/p>\n

One other issue… Verizon has eliminated any internet connection sharing in this device so you need to add other software to allow WMWifiRouter to work. I downloaded ICSInstall.zip<\/a> from XDA-Developers (registration required).<\/p>\n

I then followed these instructions:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Extract the files from the attached ZIP to your computer<\/li>\n
  2. Copy ICSInstall.exe, ICSInstall.bin and cf.cab to your device<\/li>\n
  3. Install cf.cab on your device<\/li>\n
  4. Soft-reset<\/li>\n
  5. Run ICSInstall.exe<\/li>\n
  6. Click Patch<\/li>\n
  7. Wait ’til it says Done<\/li>\n
  8. Soft-reset<\/li>\n
  9. Test ICS ( \\Windows\\IntShrui.exe )<\/li>\n
  10. Delete ICSInstall.exe, ICSInstall.bin and cf.cab<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \nOnce installed I was sharing like a champ and surprised at just how amazing this software is. As this is a shareware program I urge my readers who find this program useful (and others as well) to donate <\/a>to the company’s developer Jorrit Jongma<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    One of the most incredible software packages I have come across in quite some time is WMWifiRouter which enables Windows Mobile devices to become WiFi access points, sharing the EVDO connection with a number of others. Although the software allows ad hoc connections instead of infrastructure I found no negative effects from this minor oddity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,172,160,199,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}