Stupid question but need to ask anyway about connecting my phone to internet

[Lyle85213]

Here's my stupid question. I'm in a bad place for wifi reception at work and don't want to use all my data minutes listening to music while at work. I do have computer hooked up to internet and was wondering if there is a way for me to connect my phone up to the Internet via the USB cable. I know I can tether my phone to my computer but that's so my computer can get Internet via my phone. I want to do it the other way around. Any ideas?

 

[Wm7Long]

If listening to streaming music is your goal, why not just listen to it on your work computer? If there's some other goal that requires internet to be available on your phone, then you might be able to connect your work computer to a Wi-Fi access port (hotspot). Your phone should be able to get reception when near to that hotspot.

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

Make sure you have any USB drivers you need (Windows only) and the Android SDK up and running.

Connect phone to computer and activate USB tethering option. On your computer, you'll see a new network interface.

Setup a bridge between the PC existing network interface and the new usb network interface. Windows Instructions Linux instructions:

ip addr flush dev <interface 1>
ip addr flush dev <interface 2>
brctl addbr br0
brctl addif br0 <interface 1> <interface 2> 
ip link set dev br0 up

Substitute your network interfaces for <interface 1> and <interface 2> with no <> brackets.

Finally, on your computer send the following command to your phone through adb: (for Windows and Linux)

adb shell netcfg usb0 dhcp

I do not think there is any way to do what you want on a Mac.

 

[Lyle85213]

Thank you, Jerry. I know there are easier way to do this such as just listen to music on the computer but if we just did the things that were easy we wouldn't learn anything new in life. I'll give this a try this weekend.