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[Q] Deployed in Afghanistan please help!

I just purchased the gtab after careful deliberation and i have just one woe.... The only way to get internet access here is to connect to the local provider through the wireless routers they have distributed throughout the installation... Thats the easy part... after that you have to connect using a PPPOE vpn.... i do this with my laptop but i want to use my gtab on the net also.. call me greedy... So my question is; is it possible in anyway to connect to their VPN? Or maybe bridge the connection between my lappy and the gtab?

It might be possible thru Bluetooth? That is if your laptop has Bluetooth. Otherwise I think you will need a small wifi router or something and setup ICS (Internet Connection Sharing).

Bluetooth won't work....
You can use VPN software on your tab but that needs specific settings [ the same from your lap top ] just need to find compatible VPN software for the tab that will work with your network.
Easiest solution is to use your laptop as a wireless router.
depending on your OS [ assuming windows ] there are many guides online on how to set it up.
May be as easy as selecting your network connection and turning on network sharing....
Goodluck homie
EDIT: i don't know what your base's restrictions are but if your "tech" team helped set up your laptop they should help on the tab too.

Goat_For_Sale said:
Easiest solution is to use your laptop as a wireless router.
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My recommendation as well.

jbro06 said:
I just purchased the gtab after careful deliberation and i have just one woe.... The only way to get internet access here is to connect to the local provider through the wireless routers they have distributed throughout the installation... Thats the easy part... after that you have to connect using a PPPOE vpn.... i do this with my laptop but i want to use my gtab on the net also.. call me greedy... So my question is; is it possible in anyway to connect to their VPN? Or maybe bridge the connection between my lappy and the gtab?
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well im not sure i understand all you said but theres a progran i use call connectify that let you share you laptop internet by creating a hotspot so try it out and post your result

thanks for your quick replies ill try each of the suggestions out and post the results afterwards... hopefully one of them will help

jbro06 said:
thanks for your quick replies ill try each of the suggestions out and post the results afterwards... hopefully one of them will help
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What OS is your laptop ? i can probably pull the steps pretty quick

jayune said:
well im not sure i understand all you said but theres a progran i use call connectify that let you share you laptop internet by creating a hotspot so try it out and post your result
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Wow connectify worked amazingly thanks alot... i am now net capable on my Tab.. thanks again

jbro06 said:
Wow connectify worked amazingly thanks alot... i am now net capable on my Tab.. thanks again
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Make sure you restrict your hot spot on your laptop to the mac address of your tab and see if you can hide your ssid as well. The base techs lock you down to VPN access for their security so they will not like you opening up their network for everyone to access using your vpn connection.

comfort69 said:
Make sure you restrict your hot spot on your laptop to the mac address of your tab and see if you can hide your ssid as well. The base techs lock you down to VPN access for their security so they will not like you opening up their network for everyone to access using your vpn connection.
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Thats not necessary as the internet we have is not supplied by the base techs.. we get our personal internet from a local civilian contractor called IO Global.... and the thrid country nationals they have working the branch are no where near enough tech savvy to care what im doing... but thank you for your concern...

Thanks for asking this question. I am in Oki, and having a simular connection problem with my gtab, but the solution provided allowed my to correct my problem as well. Stay safe.

I just left Afghanistan and was having a similar problem. Just curious - what base are you on?

PatrioticAmerican said:
I just left Afghanistan and was having a similar problem. Just curious - what base are you on?
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No offense but i dont feel comfortable disclosing that information...

jbro06 said:
No offense but i dont feel comfortable disclosing that information...
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Firstly! Thank you to all for your service to our country!!!! As the people in Egypt are finding out FREEDOM is not FREE.
Second... I do not know which ROM you are using; however Clemsyn's KERNEL does support configuring VPN on your tablet. Please go to this thread for more information:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=895825
With the above you should be able to configure your tablet and be able to roam around your area without having to go through your laptop.
This should meet the need you have
I hope the above helps and stay low !!!!

jbro06 said:
comfort69 said:
Make sure you restrict your hot spot on your laptop to the mac address of your tab and see if you can hide your ssid as well. The base techs lock you down to VPN access for their security so they will not like you opening up their network for everyone to access using your vpn connection.
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Thats not necessary as the internet we have is not supplied by the base techs.. we get our personal internet from a local civilian contractor called IO Global.... and the thrid country nationals they have working the branch are no where near enough tech savvy to care what im doing... but thank you for your concern...
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You should at least consider doing this anyway, for your own peace of mind: you don't want some random stranger abusing your network connection or potentially accessing your personal data, do you? You wouldn't take chances with your physical security I am sure. Your data security is important too.
Thank you for serving your country, stay safe out there.

999ping said:
Thank you for serving your country, stay safe out there.
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+100!
Yes, thank you!

thanks everyone for both your support of my mission and of my gtablet... I will most definitely try out the clemsyn kernel and see what comes of it because then i could roam the entire base.. And as far as hiding the ssid, i really dont think thats warranted as the people in my unit or anyone else in the area are not the type of people that would know how to get around what simple security i have in place.... They arent the type of people that you would encounter on this forum, or any tech forum for that matter.... but thanks for your concern ill keep it monitored and if i dont have the warm and fuzzy i will put more security in place, but at this point its just an inconvenience.....

comfort69 said:
...and see if you can hide your ssid as well.
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This may cause some problems. Android some some well documented issues with non-broadcast SSIDs. It may work, it may not. It may work today, but not connect again tomorrow.
You'll need to test different configurations (if you even can hide the SSID) and see what works. But you may NEED to broadcast for the Tab to connect (again).
Also, from a security stand point, hiding the SSID adds nothing, really. Restrict access to the MAC address and you'll be fine. Use WPA2 if at all possible.
And I'll add to the thanks for serving. You are a true American hero.

lol my first thanks lol you welcome man, i agree hiding your ssid does nothing as far as i know connectify does not work unless password protected and the default method is wpa2, even with the usual method of wpa hacking, macc address filtering should cover you so your good and thanks for tour service man

Jbro,
Thanx so much for starting this thread. I've been "there" and am going back to the same place and forgot that they use pppoe there! And I agree, you don't want to deal with the response from them when you tell them what you're doing.
It sucks bad enough standing in the line in the first place.
Have they improved connection speeds? It used to be steady but nothing to write home about. Also, can you a wifi signal base wide now?
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[Q] Couldn't log into Panera Wi-Fi

Hi,
I was at Panera today and could see their Wi-fi, said "connected", but was grey, not blue in status.
Would try to find the Panera page accepting their terms, but stopped halfway loading.
It looked like the stats were DHCP and that's all I could tell.
any help?
Thanks

Adam said:
any help?
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Yes...try the chocolate brownies...they are great.
seriously...no...I haven't had a chance to try Panera's but it does the same thing on my laptop sometimes...not sure if it's the TF...

Thanks!
Never had an issue with win XP Pro on my laptop....
Addictive place to hang out at

I have actually used my transformer at panera. Once you connect, you have to open up the browser and accepts their TOS. Then you are set!
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And sorry, meant to add that you might need your browser set to a desktop string. To fully load their TOS
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You can also try setting a static DNS (not any other part of the IP, let it DHCP that) of 8.8.8.8
Those are google's DNS servers and this often lets you skip the web browser login aspect of many free or even PAY wifi at hotels.

shawnbuell said:
And sorry, meant to add that you might need your browser set to a desktop string. To fully load their TOS
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Thanks Shawnbuell... Being a Noob, I am not sure what you mean. Little help?

shawnbuell said:
And sorry, meant to add that you might need your browser set to a desktop string. To fully load their TOS
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Ahhhh... Whenever I typed about:debug into the browser nothing happened..
But, then I went to settings and found that more options were there.
It's now under advanced - set it for desktop rather than tablet so that the browser won't load the pages as mobile.
I'll try it later today!

crater said:
You can also try setting a static DNS (not any other part of the IP, let it DHCP that) of 8.8.8.8
Those are google's DNS servers and this often lets you skip the web browser login aspect of many free or even PAY wifi at hotels.
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Thanks for the tip about 8.8.8.8. I never knew that.

SoCalTiger said:
Thanks for the tip about 8.8.8.8. I never knew that.
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Yeah can you guys elaborate on this? I am not following this at all?!

Me too please!

interesting.
the 8.8.8.8 DNS setting made my Xperia X10 disgustingly fast from home....the only issue is that i had to assign a static IP to the phone itself...I just chose a random one that I knew was part of my home network...
do you think that will cause a problem later on?

npompei said:
Yeah can you guys elaborate on this? I am not following this at all?!
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I tried to find some more info or settings on my TF and couldn't find how to do this. Any help?
Thanks!

for the future, when the wifi icon is grey instead of blue, your still connected, but you don't have direct access to google servers which means syncing is down.
This is normal with any internet that requires a log-in page.
For example at my school i have to log in through the browser like you do at panera, and gmail won't update because the google sync dosn't have direct access. You can do a manual check, but it won't do it on it's own.
just so you know.

[Q] Wifi not working on android phone at school

So my school just got net books for everyone and also WiFi, but the problem is that my android phone can connect but it cant use it. at first i thought they somehow banned everything but the net books but when i brought my laptop it connected just fine:. so what do you think they did? and how can i mod my phone to use it. if it is possible.
p.s. i can only use internet explorer on my laptop and not firefox.
Thanks for the help

U sure u configured ur phones settings?
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Yea i can connect to my home wifi and other peoples wifi i just cant get any info from my schools wifi sending or reciving. Do you think it could be the port that android hose through?

Still need help/ bump

The schools wifi may be using leap to verify you on the network. I believe you can install a program that allows you to configure these settings.

Why not ask the schools administration about it? If the school has a tech support department, they may be able to tell you why.
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bump/ still need help

Did you ask the it department? We really can't help to much if we don't know all the details.
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Hey, i think your skool has a VPN Connection, try useing the VPN app on your phone, but it requires a username and password, also try your school ID for the login, hope it works

softwaredownloads
softwaredownloads.org/windows/business/pims-calendars/android-manager-wifi/
I think maybe it can help,do not forget the three letters(w)!

if your school provided the net book then they probably have MAC address security enabled. That's as much help as I am going to give you with bypassing their security
Best of luck

[GUIDE] How to bypass T-Mobile's tether block using Firefox

Hello everyone, so I recently finally got blocked from tethering by T-Mobile after a long time of sucking it out of them by being rooted and on a custom ROM like all of us here.
The way they know you are tethering on their network is by the User Agent that is sent to them by your desktop/laptop computer browser. When they see that a regular browser is accessing their network, that's when you get the infamous T-Mobile Hotspot Screen we all hate.
I've recently discovered a Firefox Add-On called User Agent Switcher found here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/?src=search
Download it and install it to Firefox. Then download this (right click, "Save as") http://techpatterns.com/downloads/firefox/useragentswitcher.xml
Go to Tools>User Agent>Edit User Agents (a window pops up) click on "Import.." and add the .xml file you just downloaded.
Then pick a User Agent that resembles the Sensation webkit and BAM! Free tethering for all of us.
I'm using it right now
NOTE: If you use a Googlebot User Agent, you will be able to tether and always load up full webpages instead of mobile versions. - Thanks to The Archangel and chadwick3nser for discovering this!

You can also do the same with chrome.
Been doing it for since the day they released it.

The Archangel said:
You can also do the same with chrome.
Been doing it for since the day they released it.
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Hell yeah, go Chrome! I've never used it so I wouldn't know

FiddleGoose said:
Hell yeah, go Chrome! I've never used it so I wouldn't know
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I actually take it one step further an either completely hide my IP on the computer or switch it so they can't try to block it.

Nice!
Is that how att detects also?
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They detect by sniffing packets an the extra Mac address

The Archangel said:
They detect by sniffing packets an the extra Mac address
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Damn, AT&T is on point. Bastards.
I hate T-Mobile for pulling that move as well.

FiddleGoose said:
Damn, AT&T is on point. Bastards.
I hate T-Mobile for pulling that move as well.
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just about every major cell company does the exact same thing to detect it. Maybe different variants but still the same.

I am doing this right now as well, but all the desktop pages are in mobile. I have found the desktop button on the bottom of the youtube site but cant find it on most sites. any workaround for this?

chadwick3nser said:
I am doing this right now as well, but all the desktop pages are in mobile. I have found the desktop button on the bottom of the youtube site but cant find it on most sites. any workaround for this?
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Use a Google spider UA. Everything will be as normal

The Archangel said:
Use a Google spider UA. Everything will be as normal
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do i create a custom UA and edit the string to a spider or how would be the best way? or what would be the best one to use?about going about this? sorry, have no experience with user agents
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nevermind, i used googlebot 2.1 new version and its working great, thanks for this!!!

Glad you got it working.
Hey op. Heres a suggestion, put in the your first post. Use a Google bot user agent. Using that will load all the web mail pages normally.

The Archangel said:
Glad you got it working.
Hey op. Heres a suggestion, put in the your first post. Use a Google bot user agent. Using that will load all the web mail pages normally.
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You got it!

The Archangel said:
I actually take it one step further an either completely hide my IP on the computer or switch it so they can't try to block it.
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What are you using to block the IP address? I was thinking just changing the IP to not be the standard DHCP that the phone would give you still shows it coming from another MAC address on the same connection and would be obvious to the write sniffing rules?
I realize this isn't a requirement I've been using the UA for a while from canary but I easily see them stopping this workaround w/ better sniffing rules.

SurfCityCom said:
What are you using to block the IP address? I was thinking just changing the IP to not be the standard DHCP that the phone would give you still shows it coming from another MAC address on the same connection and would be obvious to the write sniffing rules?
I realize this isn't a requirement I've been using the UA for a while from canary but I easily see them stopping this workaround w/ better sniffing rules.
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i use platnium hide ip. it switches to another ip when im on windows an sometimes ill use smac to change that also. havent found any programs for linux yet (havent really looked)

The Archangel said:
Use a Google spider UA. Everything will be as normal
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This is a very bad advice as pretending to be a googlebot may get you either blocked or banned from many websites (especially if they use ZBBlock) as this behavior is rated as a spammer/bot activity.

tobitege said:
This is a very bad advice as pretending to be a googlebot may get you either blocked or banned from many websites (especially if they use ZBBlock) as this behavior is rated as a spammer/bot activity.
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I've been doing it for a while, never got a ban on my end

Okay I've been tethering fine for a while on FF, but T-Mobile finally blocked me yesterday... I figured out that it was the second I started to watch a YouTube video. Guessing they're able to see activity on my cell account at the same time as my login is accessing YouTube and put 2&2 together...? (That may be obvious to some...)
Anyway... I may try the user agent spoofing but this is really aggravating since I'm traveling right now and the internets in my hotel are $10/day.
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Anyone figure out how to use netflix while spoofing in Firefox? I've been settling for Amazon Prime instant video, but I'd love to have Netflix back. With the UA spoof, Netflix won't play movies. At least I haven't figured out how.

This method no longer works for me

[Tool] Network Monitor

Hi All,
Would you like to know what app is using network in your phone? Would you like to know what address is the application connecting?
My friend wrote a tool named Network Monitor. The link is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jmm.networkmonitor Would you like to try?
The tool could help you below:
1. Monitor current data activity and uplink/downlink throughput.
2. Monitor external IP address.
3. List all package which using internet currently.
4. List all socket link including destination IP address and source IP address of per package.
5. Query where is the destination address of the link connection and show it in map.
It is a fun tool if you want to know what application using your internet connection background.
My friend welcome any comments and he could add function if it would helpful.
Thanks.

Would this be helpful in analyzing what kind of intranet traffic is causing high wlan_rx_wakelocks?

Useful tool.
Works good on my N7100.
Thank you.

much needed as many are taking up lots of data without knowingly.
thanks

Nice app. Keep up the good work :good:

I almost installed this as it looks to be very helpful, but.....then I reread the thread and the fact that you say "My friend" made this app and not you makes me very nervous....why isn't your friend posting this up?
The way I see it if this app was found to be stealing data or compromising networks who would we have to turn to? You? All you are going to say is "my friend did it not me".
No insult intended but have him\her post this themselves would be my request.
I mean dude....you have less than 20 posts. Not like you have been on here for years....or even a year.
As an IT professional with 46 companies relying on my judgement....I simply can't risk their security

The tool will let you know which application is using your network, even for intranet.
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Would this be helpful in analyzing what kind of intranet traffic is causing high wlan_rx_wakelocks?
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I think your concern was reasonable.
I am the author and using my friend's account. Let me explain what was going on. I wrote the tool part time and shown to my friend. My friend said you should publish in google play. But as you know, it is hard to let more person know there is software named "network monitor". My friend said he has a xda account and could help me to post. I will apply a account or just use this account.
One thing I could guarantee, there isn't back door in the application. Thanks for everybody's reply, it encourages me to add more functions.
One function I am considering to add is WIFI control/diag function.
Thanks
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I almost installed this as it looks to be very helpful, but.....then I reread the thread and the fact that you say "My friend" made this app and not you makes me very nervous....why isn't your friend posting this up?
The way I see it if this app was found to be stealing data or compromising networks who would we have to turn to? You? All you are going to say is "my friend did it not me".
No insult intended but have him\her post this themselves would be my request.
I mean dude....you have less than 20 posts. Not like you have been on here for years....or even a year.
As an IT professional with 46 companies relying on my judgement....I simply can't risk their security
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he_arslan said:
The tool will let you know which application is using your network, even for intranet.
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So it won't I guess, I need to know analyze the broadcast packets originating from somewhere else on the intranet and waking up my device from deep sleep (wlan_rx_wakelocks).

You are correct. Currently the tool doesn't support packet analyze. It needs root right to capture the packet from network.
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So it won't I guess, I need to know analyze the broadcast packets originating from somewhere else on the intranet and waking up my device from deep sleep (wlan_rx_wakelocks).
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One way to alleviate fears is to open source your code.
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ph37rd said:
One way to alleviate fears is to open source your code.
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nice app... would be nice if it also shows wi-fi TX/RX along with the total and mobile... I take it total is the combo of wi-fi and mobile?

Yes. Total TX/RX combines Wifi information.
The reason I didn't list wifi TX/RX is most person only care about mobile data and there is limited space to show information.
Maybe need to provide a way to configure the display items.
BTW, I have upgraded the software and added floating window and process view. Please enjoy it.