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 Message 1622 
 August Abolins to Ed Vance 
 to wifi or not to wifi 
 29 May 24 22:21:00 
 
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Hello Ed!

** On Tuesday 28.05.24 - 20:46, Ed Vance wrote to August Abolins:

 >> If so, I don't think there is an cat5 adaptor for the phone
 >> to feed ethernet to your devices.  Usually the only
 >> possibility with eth/cat5 adaptors that connect to
 >> smartphones is when you want to provide internet TO the
 >> phone.

 EV> Not wanting cat5 for the phone, in my earlier searches I
 EV> saw a photo of a Bluetooth dongle that had a hole in it
 EV> for a cat5 plug

If you see that again, post the link.  I'd like to see what you  
were looking at.

If your phone supports Bluetooth, you can probably use that to  
provide your signal to your pc.  Your pc just needs to support  
bluetooth too.  If you are afraid of using wifi at the phone,  
you can probably select Bluetooth-tethering when you enable the  
phone's mobile hotspot feature.


 EV> The first time I heard about Bluetooth was when I was in
 EV> line at store and the person behind me was talking a lot
 EV> and when I asked who they were talking to I learned they
 EV> had a earpiece with a mike that used Bluetooth to talk
 EV> over their cellphone.

But that's differnet. The phone is merely supplying the regular  
audio output/in over bluetooth to the earpiece/mike.


 >> Your easiest solution (as has been mentioned before) is to
 >> simply get a wifi dongle for your pc, and enable mobile
 >> hotspot on your phone.

 EV> I'm a hardhead.

Then use bluetooth!

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