[arm-allstar] Wired tethering to phone (modem) usb or ethernet

[Doug Crompton]

I assume you mean using the phone as a wireless hotspot to the Pi3
wireless. This works fine and there should be no packet loss between theses
two devices located close together. I suspect your problem is packet loss
on your cell phone hotspot to whatever cell you are using. Hotspot
connections are not perfect. You can expect occasional packet loss and in
some areas no service. Everyone wants perfect but you are probably never
going to get it on a cell hotspot. VOIP is real time without buffering or
error correction and any disparity in the network will show up in what you
hear. Switching sites causes a brief dropout If you were using a web
browser or even streaming a movie which is buffered on your hotspot it
would not even show up unless you were in a totally bad area. You might ask
why your phone works better than the hotspot. Cell providers want the phone
itself to work the best and thus it gets priority. Since most Internet use
of a smart phone is limited to web browsing or some other service where the
disparities don't show up they can get away with not having perfect
internet.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*



On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 3:05 PM, "Terry Bethlehem via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Does this distro have the ability to, like a pc, plug a phone into it, usb
> cable, and the os of the pi can use the phone as a modem? Reason behind
> this is that I sometimes get packet loss when doing wireless tether. I'd
> like to try this and see if it fixes the problem and has better
> performance.
>
> I thought about using an otg adapter, then a Linux compatible usb to rj45
> adapter and feed the pi Internet. I've seen videos where the android phone
> could be fed Internet this way, but haven't found any info yet about the
> other way around. The phone providing Internet to the pi.
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