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Menneisyys · 10-21-07, 04:23 AM

UPDATE (10/21/2007): In the meantime, a hacked DLL has been released (see the original thread for more info; note that the tutorial below suffices if you don’t want to read that much). All you need to do is to download THIS file, unzip it to anywhere on your phone (can also be a storage card) and create a link file to intshrui.exe in \Windows\Start Menu\Programs. This will make it possible to have two copies of Internet Sharing on your device: the original for BT PAN-based and a hacked one for Wi-Fi based sharing. This also means you’ll be able to use both the BT PAN- and the Wi-Fi-based sharing on your handset.

Note that the hacked DLL file itself is HERE; as you can’t just “shadow” the original ROM file in \Windows with it, you’ll only want to use it if you’re a ROM cooker yourself and want to put a cooked version in your ROM. .

It worked wonderfully between my HTC Universal and Nokia N95; I used the shared connection for hours in this setup. The latter (S60 v3 FP1, ROM version 11.x; as it’s the latest-and-greatest in the Nokia line, this also means Symbian phones generally need to rely on Wi-Fi-based sharing when accessing the Net via an external modem) doesn’t support either BT DUN or BT PAN but it does support Wi-Fi P2P connections; therefore, you must use the latter to connect to the Web if, for some reason, you can’t or don’t want to use the built-in phone because, for example,

it’s locked to another network
you want to access the cellular net where there’s not much signal, while you can you can place the WM device to a spot where there is; then, you might want to prefer an external modem in this setup
or, you just don’t want to swap SIM cards between your Windows Mobile device and client (in this case, the N95) all the time

I haven’t had any speed problems. I, on the other hand, did encounter disconnections every 5...20 minutes; however, it didn’t really annoy me because, on the WM device, I just clicked Connect again and the N95 started to see the Net again. (This behavior, should you encounter the same, will pretty much annoy you if you want lengthier net access sessions.)
Note that the DLL has the Wi-Fi card name (TIACXWLN1) wired-in; this means it will NOT work on models using other Wi-Fi card names (for example, the HTC Wizard).

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Menneisyys Contributing Reviewer Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,546 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	UPDATE (10/21/2007): In the meantime, a hacked DLL has been released (see the original thread for more info; note that the tutorial below suffices if you don’t want to read that much). All you need to do is to download THIS file, unzip it to anywhere on your phone (can also be a storage card) and create a link file to intshrui.exe in \Windows\Start Menu\Programs. This will make it possible to have two copies of Internet Sharing on your device: the original for BT PAN-based and a hacked one for Wi-Fi based sharing. This also means you’ll be able to use both the BT PAN- and the Wi-Fi-based sharing on your handset. Note that the hacked DLL file itself is HERE; as you can’t just “shadow” the original ROM file in \Windows with it, you’ll only want to use it if you’re a ROM cooker yourself and want to put a cooked version in your ROM. . It worked wonderfully between my HTC Universal and Nokia N95; I used the shared connection for hours in this setup. The latter (S60 v3 FP1, ROM version 11.x; as it’s the latest-and-greatest in the Nokia line, this also means Symbian phones generally need to rely on Wi-Fi-based sharing when accessing the Net via an external modem) doesn’t support either BT DUN or BT PAN but it does support Wi-Fi P2P connections; therefore, you must use the latter to connect to the Web if, for some reason, you can’t or don’t want to use the built-in phone because, for example, it’s locked to another network you want to access the cellular net where there’s not much signal, while you can you can place the WM device to a spot where there is; then, you might want to prefer an external modem in this setup or, you just don’t want to swap SIM cards between your Windows Mobile device and client (in this case, the N95) all the time I haven’t had any speed problems. I, on the other hand, did encounter disconnections every 5...20 minutes; however, it didn’t really annoy me because, on the WM device, I just clicked Connect again and the N95 started to see the Net again. (This behavior, should you encounter the same, will pretty much annoy you if you want lengthier net access sessions.) Note that the DLL has the Wi-Fi card name (TIACXWLN1) wired-in; this means it will NOT work on models using other Wi-Fi card names (for example, the HTC Wizard). __________________ MS MVP- Mobile Devices.