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[APP] AWESOME App for Wifi Tethering - Open Garden Wifi Tethering

i tested out all the wifi tethering apps and this one was by FAR the best. Fastest speeds. Easily allows 4g tethering. compared to barnacle, wifi tether, and wireless tether, and its Noticeably faster. I only tried it cuz I couldn't get the sprint hotspot hack on my ROM. So if you're in this group, or even not (speeds are very very comparable, if not faster, than sprint hotspot), TRY IT OUT!
NOTICE::: Requires GPS Permission, so USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!! see posts below, including mine - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17571902&postcount=30.
Heres the market link - https://market.android.com/details?id=og.android.tether&hl=en
WiFi Tethering
by OpenGarden, Inc.
50,000 downloads, 1911 ratings (4.4 avg)
Free
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Thanks! I'm using it now!

I will try it out for sure. Thanks
Sent from my SPH-D700 using Tapatalk

This app is a good find, got me tethering my took with ease earlier today. Thanks for sharing this one!
Sent from the Odyssey

Yeah I like this better then wifi tether, but they used the exact same layout as wifi tether, lol, thanks open source

I like this one as well, becuase my ipod can connect to it.

it is basically the same layout as wifi tether and a few others..but it doesnt need to activate sprint hotspot. whenever it did that for me i had serious issues. plus this one gives faster speeds

FrankyFiggz27 said:
it is basically the same layout as wifi tether and a few others..but it doesnt need to activate sprint hotspot. whenever it did that for me i had serious issues. plus this one gives faster speeds
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Yup, the old one would require a wipe cache/dalvik in order to use native Hotspot so it definately caused some conflict. Just ran YouTube and there was no freezing or lag
Sent from my SPH-D700 using xda premium

downloaded it but it gives me an error "unable to start tethering. Is your device 'rooted'" which it is, and wifi tether works fine (and yes, I am rooted). I'll have to play with it tomorrow and see if I can sort it out.

D`Nyed said:
downloaded it but it gives me an error "unable to start tethering. Is your device 'rooted'" which it is, and wifi tether works fine (and yes, I am rooted). I'll have to play with it tomorrow and see if I can sort it out.
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+1 Are you using cyanogenmod? I wonder if that's the issue...
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i think EH17 broke this app, i couldn't get it to broadcast a wifi connection and there is some text that comes up about a missing file in /data/.../ when i reinstalled.

It did that for me a few times, too, but when I re-launched the app*, it worked.
*relaunched as in, immediately after it gave me the error and closed; if you're using the Hurricane ROM, you should also download Root Checker from the Market - for some reason, even though BusyBox was supposed to be installed, it wasn't and I had to download a separate installer to make it all work.

Why does this app require permission to fine gps location?

Will try it. Hope it works better than wifi tether. Had it crash on me this weekend while power was out and totally destroyed my rom, not even restoring a back up would stop the force closes, also had journaling enabled.

Ma$etas said:
Why does this app require permission to fine gps location?
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Reason I'm not installing it

Ultro said:
Reason I'm not installing it
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Just keep your gps off lol. It's only required because the app requires root access. The app is safe...over 250,000 downloads and no complaints of safety issues

FrankyFiggz27 said:
Just keep your gps off lol. It's only required because the app requires root access. The app is safe...over 250,000 downloads and no complaints of safety issues
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So if i keep my gps off i shouldnt worry about anything then?
what about when i do turn it on why does it want the permission to fine my gps what does it need to locate me gps info for?
just cause 250K have downloaded doesnt make it safe just maybe no one has cared or even bothered to see what permissions it ask for all they cared for was having wifi tethering

Ma$etas said:
Why does this app require permission to fine gps location?
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http://opengarden.net/open-garden-mobile-apps/
lol: "You can view a map of our current users of the tethering application for Android: Open garden Wifi Tether Map"
http://opengarden.com/map/

Just used apktool and ran diff -ur -I '^ \.line [0-9]*$' wireless_tether_2_0_7/smali/ og.android.tether/smali/.
Now I'm pissed off.
A This is clearly based on wireless tether 2.x. This is a GPL violation, as they do not provide source code. How is opengarden different? There is code pertaining to wakelock handling, and:
B Functions that collect your GPS location and device id. I've browsed through their site, and they (claim) to have a plan to create a free public mesh network, but:
C They fail to mention this in the market description, or the app itself.
Since this modified GPL app, I am perfectly within my rights to modify the app, so I have removed all code pertaining to stats collection (as well as the FINE_LOCATION permission), and am posting this fork here, on the assumption that the wakelock handling makes this thing worthwhile.
Enjoy.

Has anyone tested this on a GB rom?

[SOLVED] Safe access to public wifi's?

Hi, soon i'm going to a vacation and would like to know what to use to access public wifi networks securely to avoid my personal data interception and generally be secure while browsing?
Thanks

VPN.
Google superfreevpn, but you will have the check what is the password before you use their VPN, because they change the password every now and then.
Pressed from my Maguro

Issues I see with superfreevpn:
-Uses PPTP (PPTP a history of insecurities)
-Restricts bandwidth
-Restricts use (no P2P, no torrents)
-8 hour time limit per session
-No idea who these guys are (no guarantee they aren't stealing your info themselves)
As an alternative, you could set up your own OpenVPN server at home. Most home routers can do this easily when using firmware such as OpenWRT, DD-WRT or Tomato, or you can set it up on a computer behind your router. Then you have a secure connection back to your own ISP, so you will have at least the same level of security/privacy you have at home. This is what I do, using OpenVPN for Android on my phone which uses the new VPN APIs introduced in ICS.
Hope this helps.

Hmmm, this seem to be a better option.:good:

Another alternative is to use Orbot from Google Play store, which implements Tor on Android.

Thanks guys, especially @phazerorg.
Umm while i understand the process of VPN you're talking about, what about data which is first sent to/through public WiFi AP?
WIll look into OpenVPN.
Do you have an article or link for me to get more in depth?
Thanks once again.

purpler said:
Thanks guys, especially @phazerorg.
Umm while i understand the process of VPN you're talking about, what about data which is first sent to/through public WiFi AP?
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If you mean before the VPN tunnel is established, it's true that some connections could be made. I think the best you could do here is to either turn off syncing and don't browse before the VPN is up, or make sure any syncing/browsing uses SSL. A little Google searching seems to indicate that the gmail app uses SSL, so no worries for that. For other apps, you'd want to investigate. Or shut off all syncing so pretty much no connections are made before you connect to your VPN. Once the VPN is up, you can have all traffic travel through it and it just looks like UDP packets of random data to the public wifi.
WIll look into OpenVPN.
Do you have an article or link for me to get more in depth?
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Nothing specific, but searching Google for "OpenVPN tutorial" turned up quite a number of useful-looking results, including some from the official OpenVPN site. I know there's a GUI app for Windows, and router firmware makes it easy. OpenVPN is popular and open source, so there's loads of resources and a community around it so you shouldn't have any trouble.

You can allways use opera mini as everythding goes through their servers. I would not trust free vpns as its like using a free access point. Who's to say they arnt looking at your data
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purpler said:
Thanks guys, especially @phazerorg.
Umm while i understand the process of VPN you're talking about, what about data which is first sent to/through public WiFi AP?
WIll look into OpenVPN.
Do you have an article or link for me to get more in depth?
Thanks once again.
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Once a VPN circuit is established, all data is encrypted between your device and the server. No one in the WiFi hotspot could read your data, even if they intercepted it. Neither could the WiFi hotspot operators.
The same is true of Tor, with the added benefit that the Tor node operators can't read your data, either, with the exception of the exit node. But the exit node operator can't tell who sent the data, because the packet headers have been stripped and replaced (several times).

phazerorg said:
As an alternative, you could set up your own OpenVPN server at home.
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I had issues with OpenVPN. I ended up setting up a linux server with IPSec instead. I just use the built-in VPN connectivity (L2TP/IPSec PSK, to be precise) to connect to my home server.
strumcat said:
Another alternative is to use Orbot from Google Play store, which implements Tor on Android.
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While TOR might be (arguably) great for "anonymizing", it does nothing for encryption. You can sniff packets from someone using TOR as simply as someone using a direct connection.
Edit: Actually, I need to look into TOR a bit more. Does anyone know for certain if it's endpoint-to-endpoint encrypted? The Orbot Play Store page says nothing about encryption, but rather only mentions the proxy chain effect, which would make my original statement correct.
DarkBanHammer said:
You can allways use opera mini as everythding goes through their servers. I would not trust free vpns as its like using a free access point. Who's to say they arnt looking at your data
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Again, this doesn't encrypt data, which means anyone in the vicinity can fairly easily sniff packets from you and plainly see your data flowing. Even worse would be people who have their own mobile access point, de-auth you from the public wifi, and then spoof the public wifi. It's actually fairly easy to do.

Tor is encrypted from your device to the exit node.
https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en
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hmm, TOR seems to be working fine in terms of ease of use and configuration. If everything is indeed encrypted than it's ideal solution for me.
Anyone else has an opinion?
Thanks guys!

What about man in between issue?

purpler said:
What about man in between issue?
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If the path is encrypted endpoint-to-endpoint, such as it would be in a VPN (or apparently with TOR... thanks for the info, strumcat, as I assume that applies to Orbot also), then a man-in-the-middle gets nothing. If someone gets between you and the wifi node, they would only see the encrypted gibberish.

that being said, TOR (Orbot) it is.
Thanks all!

Cilraaz said:
If the path is encrypted endpoint-to-endpoint, such as it would be in a VPN (or apparently with TOR... thanks for the info, strumcat, as I assume that applies to Orbot also), then a man-in-the-middle gets nothing. If someone gets between you and the wifi node, they would only see the encrypted gibberish.
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Yes, Tor is the name of the network itself. Tor Browser Bundle (for Windows) and Orbot (for Android) are provided by the Tor Project and the Guardian Project for accessing Tor. They both utilize Tor encryption and other features, You can always check to make sure that Tor is working by browsing to http://check.torproject.org site.
If you're using Jellybean and want to use the transparent proxying feature in Orbot, be sure to first enable "Use Default IPTables" in Orbot settings so it will work ok. Then enable "Transparent Proxying", and choose the apps you want to use Tor under "Select Apps". That's the easiest way to use it. When you want to use the apps normally again, just turn off Tor.
You can learn more about Tor and Orbot at https://www.torproject.org/

yes i did, works great.
Orbot is very elegant solution.
Thanks

strumcat said:
Yes, Tor is the name of the network itself. Tor Browser Bundle (for Windows) and Orbot (for Android) are provided by the Tor Project and the Guardian Project for accessing Tor. They both utilize Tor encryption and other features, You can always check to make sure that Tor is working by browsing to http://check.torproject.org site.
If you're using Jellybean and want to use the transparent proxying feature in Orbot, be sure to first enable "Use Default IPTables" in Orbot settings so it will work ok. Then enable "Transparent Proxying", and choose the apps you want to use Tor under "Select Apps". That's the easiest way to use it. When you want to use the apps normally again, just turn off Tor.
You can learn more about Tor and Orbot at https://www.torproject.org/
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Great info here, thank you.

Ravpower RP-WD01 WiFi-Disk Connectivity Review

Ravpower RP-WD01 WiFi-Disk Connectivity Review
There are many reviews about this device:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2169383
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2173608
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2150164
All of them really praise it for its core functionality. However, the threads didnt answer some of my questions. Here I will reiterate the main points of the other reviews, as well as provide answers to more advanced senarios.
First of all, I wanted to see if the Ravpower's wifi passthrough mode added much latency to internet usage. I connected it to my home wifi network, and ran some tests, some directly on the home wifi network, and some on the ravpower's hotspot network.
Home wifi :
http://www.pingtest.net/result/81588240.png
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As you can see, as far as latency is concerned, there is not much difference between browsing on your home network and accessing the internet through the ravpower hotspot. I can't test really high speed internet access, since our lines arent too good, and this is the highest speed I can get with relative stability.
You can access the connected media directly through the wifi hotspot, either using a mobile app, or even using a standard linux distro with Samba support. After applying the admin username and whatever password you set, I was able to get full read/write access to my media, and I was able to play 1080p30 video off of it perfectly.
Pleasingly, you can also access it through your home's wifi network. It will assign itself an IP address (which you can find out through its control panel), and then you can access the shared resources present on the drive, straight from your desktop if need be.
This makes it perfect for a carputer type of setup, where you can have the Ravpower attach onto the WIFI hotspot provided by your mobile/internet modem, and then you can share the media with your phone or tablet. Using a CIFS app, should be able to map the drive into android and allow your favourite apps to manage your music/movie collection almost like it was natively in the system, although I haven’t figured that bit out yet. I’ll get back to you guys when I make progress in that regard.
Overall I'm VERY pleased with this, and once I figure out CIFS and how to mount it to my internal directories, I’ll be ecstatic.

Hi there. I bought a Ravpower after being disappointed with the iUSBport not being compatible with my Transcend portable HDD and I have not been let down this time!
To get it working with ES or AndSMB you need to set the login details correctly as guest access did not work for me. I could login and see IPC$ but couldn't access the storage device(s) and got the "Invalid operation" error when I tried to access IPC$. I changed the settings in ES/AndSMB to the following:
Server: 10.10.10.254
Username: admin
Password: whateveryouhaveset
Change the Server and Password to suit. I had to restart the device a few times for changes to apply as the first time I tried ES it did not work. "MobileFun" just doesn't quite cut it so having proper samba support with this device is a real plus! Hope that helps!

thebeest said:
Hi there. I bought a Ravpower after being disappointed with the iUSBport not being compatible with my Transcend portable HDD and I have not been let down this time!
To get it working with ES or AndSMB you need to set the login details correctly as guest access did not work for me. I could login and see IPC$ but couldn't access the storage device(s) and got the "Invalid operation" error when I tried to access IPC$. I changed the settings in ES/AndSMB to the following:
Server: 10.10.10.254
Username: admin
Password: whateveryouhaveset
Change the Server and Password to suit. I had to restart the device a few times for changes to apply as the first time I tried ES it did not work. "MobileFun" just doesn't quite cut it so having proper samba support with this device is a real plus! Hope that helps!
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I could get it working in solid explorer, but have you fiured out a way to get CIFS working ?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ws.plattner.cifsmanager&hl=en
With CIFS, the external HDD is mounted internally, which allows it to be accessible by other apps, like poweramp and mxplayer and things ...

suffer1989 said:
I could get it working in solid explorer, but have you fiured out a way to get CIFS working ?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ws.plattner.cifsmanager&hl=en
With CIFS, the external HDD is mounted internally, which allows it to be accessible by other apps, like poweramp and mxplayer and things ...
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Sorry for my delay in replying, I am travelling in Australia right now and using the Rav quite a lot and have not had any problems with it so far. Unfortunately I have not been able to mount it through CIFS and have found that video performance suffers using SAMBA through ES File Explorer but there is a workaround.. If you browse to 10.10.10.254/data (replace with the IP you set) in your web browser you can watch and seek through movies with no delay compared to delays of up to 30 seconds I had seeking using the ES SAMBA method.

thebeest said:
Sorry for my delay in replying, I am travelling in Australia right now and using the Rav quite a lot and have not had any problems with it so far. Unfortunately I have not been able to mount it through CIFS and have found that video performance suffers using SAMBA through ES File Explorer but there is a workaround.. If you browse to 10.10.10.254/data (replace with the IP you set) in your web browser you can watch and seek through movies with no delay compared to delays of up to 30 seconds I had seeking using the ES SAMBA method.
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To compound that, apparently its really difficult to mount network shares in Jellybean + because of userprofiles or something :-/

suffer1989 said:
To compound that, apparently its really difficult to mount network shares in Jellybean + because of userprofiles or something :-/
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Hello I tried to connet rp-wd01 to my wireless, but it doesn't work. I don't understand why!
Please help me.
Thanks

suffer1989 said:
To compound that, apparently its really difficult to mount network shares in Jellybean + because of userprofiles or something :-/
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Any luck or updates on mounting it? This is the exact thing I'm trying to do, but I haven't found anything yet.
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Skeeterdrums said:
Any luck or updates on mounting it? This is the exact thing I'm trying to do, but I haven't found anything yet.
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I've been experimenting. If you have a kernel that supports nfs or cifs, and you have superuser access on your phone , Busybox, as well as a terminal emulator, you can create a folder in your sdcard and then mount the remote share to the folder in your sdcard, the same was linux users do.
Something like this:
https://gist.github.com/aldur/4a3f90a111b71662f056

suffer1989 said:
I've been experimenting. If you have a kernel that supports nfs or cifs, and you have superuser access on your phone , Busybox, as well as a terminal emulator, you can create a folder in your sdcard and then mount the remote share to the folder in your sdcard, the same was linux users do.
Something like this:
https://gist.github.com/aldur/4a3f90a111b71662f056
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Thanks for the update, that's more or less what I had been seeing after googling around a bit more. Just need to find cifs source and build a copy for the Amazon Fire Phone. [emoji2]
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[Q] I've blocked updates, but still getting updated. Please help

I'm not rooted. I've blocked these links via DNS settings and yesterday I still got updated. I'm afraid one of these days Amazon will push out an update that will block Kodi and my aftv will be useless to me. Any suggestions or fixes? Thanks
a1910.d.akamai.net
amzdigitaldownloads.edgesuite.net
atv-ext.amazon.com
firs-ta-g7g.amazon.com
softwareupdates.amazon.com
updates.amazon.com

cadia1977 said:
I'm not rooted. I've blocked these links via DNS settings and yesterday I still got updated. I'm afraid one of these days Amazon will push out an update that will block Kodi and my aftv will be useless to me. Any suggestions or fixes? Thanks
a1910.d.akamai.net
amzdigitaldownloads.edgesuite.net
atv-ext.amazon.com
firs-ta-g7g.amazon.com
softwareupdates.amazon.com
updates.amazon.com
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did you disable the OTA updater withint the fire tv itself using the utility app?>

So if you attempt to ping those addresses, what gets returned? How did you accomplish it? I used OpenDNS and all web calls get redirected to the OpenDNS error page. I've had no issues using that method. It's also nice to filter out "Web Spam" sites, so I leave it on all the time.

cpugeeker said:
did you disable the OTA updater withint the fire tv itself using the utility app?>
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No. How is this accomplished?

Sizzlechest said:
So if you attempt to ping those addresses, what gets returned? How did you accomplish it? I used OpenDNS and all web calls get redirected to the OpenDNS error page. I've had no issues using that method. It's also nice to filter out "Web Spam" sites, so I leave it on all the time.
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I don't what pinging is.
If I go to those sites. I get a page that says they're blocked. But somehow an update got through.

cadia1977 said:
I don't what pinging is.
If I go to those sites. I get a page that says they're blocked. But somehow an update got through.
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How did you implement the block? Did you edit the DNS entries on your computer or router? Can you post a screenshot?

Sizzlechest said:
How did you implement the block? Did you edit the DNS entries on your computer or router? Can you post a screenshot?
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On the computer via opendns. My uverse router doesn't give me the option to block sites.

cadia1977 said:
On the computer via opendns. My uverse router doesn't give me the option to block sites.
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That's your problem. You need to change the DNS settings on the router to the OpenDNS DNS servers.

Sizzlechest said:
That's your problem. You need to change the DNS settings on the router to the OpenDNS DNS servers.
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phew. and I thought Amazon has figured out a way to get around the blocking. why didn't you or don't you block your updates using su/ disable ? Isin't that full proof?

Sizzlechest said:
That's your problem. You need to change the DNS settings on the router to the OpenDNS DNS servers.
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Sorry, I forgot to say I have my belkin router in between the uverse router and the aftv. I changed the DNS settings on the belkin router to be able to block sites using opendns.

navigates said:
phew. and I thought Amazon has figured out a way to get around the blocking. why didn't you or don't you block your updates using su/ disable ? Isin't that full proof?
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What's su disable?

cadia1977 said:
No. How is this accomplished?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2736774
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2736774
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Don't you need to be rooted to do this? I'm not.

I think I stumbled upon something interesting. Two of my Fire TVs have the amazon app store apk installed on them, but one doesn't, and it is getting update, but the ones with the amazon app store installed are not. I am thinking that if you have the amazon app store apk installed that it disables the updates. Not sure if I am right, but try instlling it and see if it fixes your problem.

Question pixel 6 Hotspot & 5 GHz?

I use hotspots however noticed this only seems to have 2.4 GHz support, I can't seem to find 5 GHz...............am I missing something?

Shipoftheline said:
I use hotspots however noticed this only seems to have 2.4 GHz support, I can't seem to find 5 GHz...............am I missing something?
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Did you try out the "extend compatibility" button?
If that is activated, it should mean that 2.4 Ghz is used (for greater compatibility) - if you un-check it, it should switch to 5Ghz. Maybe I misinterpret this button/option, but I don't quite see what else it would do.

Morgrain said:
Did you try out the "extend compatibility" button?
If that is activated, it should mean that 2.4 Ghz is used (for greater compatibility) - if you un-check it, it should switch to 5Ghz. Maybe I misinterpret this button/option, but I don't quite see what else it would do.
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No it doesn't do that, that seems to be nothing to do with Wifi 5 GHz on the Hotspot menu

Shipoftheline said:
No it doesn't do that, that seems to be nothing to do with Wifi 5 GHz on the Hotspot menu
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I did a bit of research and found a couple of reddit threads talking about a similar issue with the Pixel 4/ Pixel 5
For reference one
->
https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/lmlhxt
And the results are mixed.
There are people that claim that it might have something to do with having an active 5G connection to your own House-Network wifi that might prevent the Pixel to open 5Ghz network itself, some claim that it has to do with a 5ghz-force option in developer options, one guy even claimed Google said that it only supports 2.4ghz - even though at last one said that his Pixel 4 can open 5Ghz hotspots.
So you have 4 opinions with four different results and only one will suit your needs.
Thanks, Internet. I guess.

I travel a lot and not always does hotel WIFI network serve me well, not to mention security
I use an app (that requires root of course) and allows me to select 5 GHz for an access point
down to which channel I prefer from a list of options for both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz tethering.
VPN Hotspot - Apps on Google Play
Share your VPN connection over hotspot or repeater. (root required)
play.google.com
One advantage is that the client devices can benefit from adware filtering since it
filters the entire network by chaining the local VPN that blocks ads like a pi-hole

miravision said:
I travel a lot and not always does hotel WIFI network serve me well, not to mention security
I use an app (that requires root of course) and allows me to select 5 GHz for an access point
down to which channel I prefer from a list of options for both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz tethering.
VPN Hotspot - Apps on Google Play
Share your VPN connection over hotspot or repeater. (root required)
play.google.com
One advantage is that the client devices can benefit from adware filtering since it
filters the entire network by chaining the local VPN that blocks ads like a pi-hole
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That's interesting info and I installed it, however I can't get Nordvpn to share, are you using pixel6Pro, or android 12? system install or not? I read the manual at github. I also don't understand if repeater or hotspot is required for vpn sharing, and I cant get repeater mode to work anyway, tried setting various pins on the app and in windows, no luck.

The reason is Pixel 6 supports Wi-Fi 6. When you have "Extend compatibility" disabled, it uses 6 GHz frequency, which is supported by far not every device today. If you enable the setting, it switches to 2.4 GHz, leaving you without the option to use 5 GHz. I confirmed this on my Apple device with Wi-Fi 6 support.
I am not sure if 5 GHz hotspot is supported by the phone's hardware, but I suspect it's more likely is and it's just Android's UI not giving you the option. I guess it makes sense to open a ticket at Google's Bug Tracker.
UPD. Made a ticket, please star, this will help the issue to get noticed sooner:
Issue 211113450: Ability to use 5 GHz Wi-Fi hotspot on Pixel 6 & Pixel 6 Pro
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I'm currently on live chat with Google, and they're claiming my Pixel 6 doesn't support broadcasting WifI hotspot on 5 GHZ at all. I'm not sure if I believe this though. Any thoughts?