Thread: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
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rambo is offline rambo
2010-12-07 , 15:20
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#331
Originally Posted by KPAH View Post
What about reversing the connection?
I.e.Ad-Hoc connection is hosted by the PC, rather than N900.
Will it make any difference?
With Ad-Hoc mode: No.

If the PC could make itself appear as a basestation then in such case power-management (and WPA) would be available.

Unfortunately there is no sane way for the PC to "host" the connection even if in theory DHCP (and via that routing information) could still be served from the N900.

("why not sane": it would require separate hosting programs for each OS, and depending on the wifi drivers etc it might or might not work. While Linux makes stuff like this easy [supposing proper drivers are available] you can count me out of trying to develop something for windows).
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