Creating a Mobile Hotspot With a Wireless Router and a Cellphone

January 19, 2006 | General | By: Mark VandeWettering

I’ve seen a lot of projects like this, but this one has some nice twists: they modify a cheap router that runs the OpenWRT firmware to open up one of the internal serial ports to connect it to the cell phone via a cheap data cable, and then add a bunch scripts to make ppp work through the cell phone, and then share the connection via wireless. Very neat, and points out that T-Mobile has some cheap unlimited data plans.

Probably could do the same thing with the WRT54GS routers like I have too.

[tags]Wireless,Wifi,Hotspot,Hack[/tags]

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Comments

Comment from Carlos
Time 10/3/2006 at 5:15 am

Very great hack!