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[–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Whenever I have a Linux box without Internet I just USB tether an Android phone---if the phone is on WiFi then it uses that (not cell), so it's basically just a WiFi adapter that's almost universally supported. (I think it NATs, so in some circumstances won't work, but good enough for most emergency use cases.)

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I've never tried that. I do the wifi hotspot but what do I need to do USB tether?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago*

    The wifi hotspot uses mobile data and requires an active wifi reciever on the computer while the usb tether can use mobile or wifi data and only requires a working usb on the computer.

    You basically only plug a usb data cord between the computer and phone, and then activate usb tether in the phones connection settings

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