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Rockhammer
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PDAnet

It would be amazing to have PDAnet made portable. It is a freeware teathering program that allows you to share your mobile phone's data connection with any PC.

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John T. Haller
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Driver

Doesn't PDANet just work with Windows without a drive now? And in instances where it doesn't, don't you need to locally install a drive (with admin rights, of course)?

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Using PDANet Without Installing PDANet on PC

Just thought I'd add this here since this post comes up towards the top when Googling for this:

You can use WiFi Direct on your phone's PDANet+ app, then connect to it from your PC (e.g., a work laptop where you can't install apps) with 3 steps:
1) Mark the check box next to WiFi Direct Hotspot in PDANet+ on your phone.
2) Open list of available WiFi connections. Select the name of the network listed on the PDANet+ app, and enter the password listed in PDANet+.
3) Enter Proxy settings listed in PDANet+ (IP and port number) on the PC you want to connect to the Internet. In Win10, that's located under Settings - Network and Internet - Proxy. Scroll to the bottom, change Use a proxy server to On, then enter the IP address (e.g. 192.168.1.1) listed in the PDANet+ app, and the port number listed in the PDANet+ app (e.g. 8000 - the port number is the number at the end e.g. 192.168.1.1:8000 - do not enter the colon (:), just 8000 as the port number.

Should now be connected to the Internet through PDANet on your phone, without installing anything on the PC. Enjoy!

ottosykora
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what is it for?

I have never used any kind of extra SW to connect my PC to the Phone and its mobile data connection.

Even the oldest phone I have here does it by itself and does not need any extra software neither on the phone nor on the PC.

so where is the advantage of it?

Otto Sykora
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