[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Tether and Hotspot ROCK in this rom!

* This is a lot of technical discussion about PC, Android, remote port forwarding, static IP assignments, and DMZ assignments. The question is at the bottom in bold. Skip the rest if you are not interested in this not very pertinent to cm11 discussion. Thank you.

A feature I have always liked but now depend on are USB Tether and HotSpot. Comcast had GREAT internet, except mine would go out and in, sometimes ruining it for the entire day, about 5 days a month, and they could never fix it. But man, it was fast and I could reach almost any site. Too bad their billing department go so aggressive as to assign you billing rates that you never agreed to and really make life tough with late fees and reconnect fees every month unless you help make them rich. Not me, man. The got the wrong schmuck. :p

Now AT&T is cheaper, a bit, but their home router kind of stinks. They use an external WiFi AP and this should all work seamlessly, but it doesn't. I can WiFi to my laptop from phone but not desktop. Same IP address block, but for whatever reason, I cannot get in. I can watch shows on any site on WiFi with AT&T, but the Ethernet ones seem to have "a DNS of their own". I can get to the Uverse Router page for the 3801HGV device (Known to many by it's SSID: 2WIRE700) but putting certain PC and Android devices on a static IP and use port forwarding is a major hassle on this thing. I put my Linux server in the DMZ to catch all internet traffic for the Web server, FTP server, and was hoping the mail sever, but now my Linux box has THE on an only public IP address assigned to it. Working for somethings, but not good enough. I can no longer check mail from this machine from my web form mail or system logs. Almost ALL ISPs block port 25 for email, they do not want cheap spammer Linux machines cranking out thousands of spam emails all day long until caught. With a local, Static NAT IP address, I could get the mail as it does not run through AT&T. But with a public IP address on the Linux box, all traffic goes through AT&T servers which block the mail port. It would be better to make the Linux box static and send web, ssh, ftp, and mail ports over to it so I can use Remote Desktop to get at my stuff when away from home. But so far, I cannot assign static IPs on it yet. If I reset everything and start over, I might be able to do it. I got the handbook and this would mean a lot of resetting and I am enjoying my SVU episode. Do I really want to tackle this at 11:00 PM? Ugh! :rolleyes:

I watch a lot of TV shows online, stuff that is not freely available you can watch anyway with hosts that provide multiple offshore servers so you can see anything you want. I am watching a show that is on a .tv domain fine on the laptop. But after dinner I go to desktop and the site and video search forever, but fail to come up. "Some of them", not all of them. But the server with the intact video file will not come up. I plug in the Razr, speed jumps from 3.4 Mbps to 21 Mbps and I use Google Public DNS. NOW I can watch the show. Unlimited Data makes this a no brainer.

Hmmm, since I just assigned Google Public DNS on my Ethernet connection, should try again on that site. Let's try it man. The speed is high enough for this show. Turning off Tether now. Well, that blew out the Flash plugin, see if the site reloads. No, it will not reload. Turn tether back on for the boost and try again. Oh yeah, comes right in. Verizon has better internet than AT&T and not just speed. Regardless of DNS, the Verizon Network, like Comcast, has a much greater reach. This may be due to the DNS Suffix of "attlocal.net" that is corrupting the excellent free Google DNS. Well, it looks like this phone, a good rom like CM11, and my Verizon plan have taken on a much higher value and importance. Good choice to dump Comcast but not Verizon. ;)

Since I am dumping information here, let's go all out and see how Windows 7 describes these two, tandem connections. The labels in BOLD I put so you can identify each one.

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 6: Verizon USB Tether

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Remote NDIS based Internet Sharing Device

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: AT&T Ethernet ADSL

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : attlocal.net

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection

Both have identical Google Public DNS Servers:

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4

"Remote NDIS based Internet Sharing Device". That's pretty cool! :D

Downloading a typical rom would take less than a minute on Comcast. AT&T minutes, 15 minutes to upload. Unless I use Tether or Hotspot. Then it is instant again. I just cannot imagine life without these features in the rom or having to pay extra for each one of them, use it or not. The CyanogenMod Hotspot and Tether really work great.

Does anyone know if AKOP has Hotspot and Tether and do they work quite well like cm11 or not?

Okay, I have watched as much "Gold Rush" and "Pawn Stars" as I can stand, back to SVU online! :laugh: