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There’s little point in obtaining a piece of news scoop if you can’t publish it immediately on your own news site/blog. The venue’s router had decided not to play ball, so we were facing a total lack of internet access. Which is exactly what a mobile broadband dongle is intended to compensate for. The catch is that not one of our dongles presently wants to work. Fortunately, lateral thinking prevailed and we were able to access our site using the built-in Wi-fi hotspot facility which Android 2.2 provides as standard. Here’s how we did it. All we needed to do was to take the SIM out of our mobile broad band dongle and slip it inside a suitable Android Froyo/2.2. In our case the recently upgrade is the Android Smartphone ZTE V880 (Blade) .  A technique commonly referred to as ‘tethering’ enables you to utilize your Smartphone as if it was a 3G modem. You can tether by installing drivers and connecting to a PC or Mac via a USB cable. Far easier, is to turn on the Wi-Fi tethering ability which Google built into the 2.2 release of Android.  ZTE V880 (Blade) calls this facility as the 3G Mobile Hotspot. Click it and install a password to stop others stealing your mobile broadband connection. Then all you have to do is to search for the Wi-fi hotspot you’ve just created. You can rename the handset’s default SSID from the settings option, so it should be easy to spot. We found the Android hotspot; typed in the password; and connected successfully. Why didn’t we just use our mobile broadband dongle you might ask? Ah. Well, one of the downsides to being a mobile broadband dongle device is that the equipment you are using has compatibility demands with Operation System, need install driver and can’t be used by tablet and cell phone. The first dongle we attached to computer was Huawei E182E which can be found at modem3g.com. Now, the dongle was followed by a much newer device: – 3G Router (also name as Mobile hotspot or MiFi)
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