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colanbo
9th October, 2012, 01:24 PM
Hi Guys, I hope I'm not going over old ground.
I have just moved house and have no broadband for at least 6 weeks (BT are really useless). There are no good wifi signals.
I can connect my laptop with an internet dongle. Is it possible to transfer this connections to my openbox s11. I have tried to make a network bridge, but it doesn't seem to work. If anyone can help I will be very grateful. I can't imagen 6 weeks of having to talk with the wife, please help!!!!:five:
CaptainCretin
9th October, 2012, 01:46 PM
It should work, but only for FTA channels.
saayinla
9th October, 2012, 02:02 PM
Do you not have smartphone that has wifi hotspot? you can make use of that
beggsy21
9th October, 2012, 02:25 PM
I can recommend 2 options, firstly if you have a smartphone (iphone 4 etc) use the personal hotspot option to create a wifi hotspot then log on from openbox to that. Alternatively if you have a windows 7 pc you can use a clever little program called virtual router Virtual Router - Wifi Hot Spot for Windows 7 / 2008 R2 (http://virtualrouter.codeplex.com/)
Once you are connected from laptop to your internet dongle connection then run this little free program to share the connection as a hotspot, works for me!
colanbo
9th October, 2012, 04:09 PM
Sorry to be a nob, but how do I connect (logon) my Openbox S11 to a wifi network? I only have a Lan/Ethernet port on the back and I don't know any other way to connect.
nibblitz
9th October, 2012, 04:16 PM
You can only connect an S11 to a network via its ethernet port... You could maybe use a wifi bridge, or home plugs, but you'll still be connecting the box via its ethernet port...
seamouse
9th October, 2012, 04:42 PM
flash a old router with dd wrt, that turns a router to a wifi bridge to connect the network part to a wireless signal
seanmckeown
10th October, 2012, 01:30 PM
With mobile hotspot or even using dongles I have never been able to connect to any servers using o2. Using 3 mobile has never been a problem. But in my experience, o2 connects ok and gives an ip address but won't connect to CCcam
colanbo
12th October, 2012, 11:48 AM
I've just managed to do this with S11 and XP with my dongle on 3 network.
I downloaded the program at connectify.me
You can then try the pro version for a week.
I then set the "Share Over and Sharing Mode" to my ethernet port and connected my laptop to the openbox via a normal ethernet cable and it works.