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Android WiFi Internet connection sharing

Can an android phone e.g. nexus 5, connect to a WiFi Internet connection and share that connection acting as WiFi extender?

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Davis McCarn

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Daniel McAllister

The android system on your phone is going to have certain limits placed on it by your carrier (e.g: you can only enable hotspot sharing of your cellular data plan if you've paid for the service).

That said, I'm not even sure that a jail-broken android would allow you to create a second WiFi interface -- a condition of setting up your phone as an extender or repeater, much less a "router" the way a hotspot works.

Certainly, if you wanted to play with this, you'd have to jailbreak your phone as a first step.

Dan
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Gerwin Jansen

To support the first post, I've been using wifi-bluetooth tethering on my Android mobile successfully.

No wifi sharing possibility that I know of.

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ag1iffit

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If the android device can USB tether with WiFi on then this is a method to share WiFi Internet but another device is needed to "extend" WiFi, e.g. a wireless network device that can accept internet via USB e.g. some NAS devices or a laptop with software router running.