On 8/16/2016 2:50 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 08/16/2016 10:43 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> >> Maybe I know even less about Wifi than I thought. I *ASSUMED* the >> two laptops would be able to communicate without an intermediary. >> I've got a T-mobile Z915 Hotspot which I use as a USB connected >> "cell modem) - Wifi turned off. Their documentation isn't the >> greatest. I don't recall it saying anything about communicating >> between two machines on the same hot spot. I got the impression >> it only connected multiple machines to the internet. > > I have recently finished using my Verizon tablet as a hotspot. (I'm back > on Comcast, now.) It worked fine, but it used a lot of data. If you use > your hotspot, your communications will go out to the T-mobile system and > back again, so you'll end up using twice the data on your T-mobile plan > (assuming you don't have an unlimited data plan). > > As others have said, just plug an Ethernet cable between the two > laptops, manually set IP addresses on them, and you're good to go. (At > least I think you would need to do the manual IP setup thing.)
"The DEVIL be in details" ;/ I B working on better phrasing of problem definition. > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
