On 17/04/2014 2:23 p.m., Chris Hellyar wrote:
These days I WiFi tether to my iPhone.. Works with Androids as well I
believe although not tried it myself.
Yep, Androids also support creating a WiFi hotspot.
Both iPhones and Androids also support actual tethering with a cable. I
just plugged my S3 into a Linux machine (and enabled USB tethering) and
it showed up like an Ethernet device using the cdc_ether driver. Run a
DHCP client on it and away you go. On a Mac apparently the driver here
http://joshuawise.com/horndis will make it work.
With iPhones USB tethering should just work with a Mac, although my
quick try a few minutes ago it didn't, go figure. This site
http://www.howtogeek.com/68999/how-to-tether-your-iphone-to-your-linux-pc/
suggests with some extra software (might already be installed, depending
on your distro etc) iPhone USB tethering also works on Linux machines.
If you only want to share with one computer at a time then USB has the
benefits over WiFi of providing power to the mobile device and doesn't
have any of the interference issues that WiFi can have.
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