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[APP] AWESOME App for Wifi Tethering - Open Garden Wifi Tethering

i tested out all the wifi tethering apps and this one was by FAR the best. Fastest speeds. Easily allows 4g tethering. compared to barnacle, wifi tether, and wireless tether, and its Noticeably faster. I only tried it cuz I couldn't get the sprint hotspot hack on my ROM. So if you're in this group, or even not (speeds are very very comparable, if not faster, than sprint hotspot), TRY IT OUT!
NOTICE::: Requires GPS Permission, so USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!! see posts below, including mine - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17571902&postcount=30.
Heres the market link - https://market.android.com/details?id=og.android.tether&hl=en
WiFi Tethering
by OpenGarden, Inc.
50,000 downloads, 1911 ratings (4.4 avg)
Free
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Thanks! I'm using it now!

I will try it out for sure. Thanks
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This app is a good find, got me tethering my took with ease earlier today. Thanks for sharing this one!
Sent from the Odyssey

Yeah I like this better then wifi tether, but they used the exact same layout as wifi tether, lol, thanks open source

I like this one as well, becuase my ipod can connect to it.

it is basically the same layout as wifi tether and a few others..but it doesnt need to activate sprint hotspot. whenever it did that for me i had serious issues. plus this one gives faster speeds

FrankyFiggz27 said:
it is basically the same layout as wifi tether and a few others..but it doesnt need to activate sprint hotspot. whenever it did that for me i had serious issues. plus this one gives faster speeds
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Yup, the old one would require a wipe cache/dalvik in order to use native Hotspot so it definately caused some conflict. Just ran YouTube and there was no freezing or lag
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downloaded it but it gives me an error "unable to start tethering. Is your device 'rooted'" which it is, and wifi tether works fine (and yes, I am rooted). I'll have to play with it tomorrow and see if I can sort it out.

D`Nyed said:
downloaded it but it gives me an error "unable to start tethering. Is your device 'rooted'" which it is, and wifi tether works fine (and yes, I am rooted). I'll have to play with it tomorrow and see if I can sort it out.
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+1 Are you using cyanogenmod? I wonder if that's the issue...
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i think EH17 broke this app, i couldn't get it to broadcast a wifi connection and there is some text that comes up about a missing file in /data/.../ when i reinstalled.

It did that for me a few times, too, but when I re-launched the app*, it worked.
*relaunched as in, immediately after it gave me the error and closed; if you're using the Hurricane ROM, you should also download Root Checker from the Market - for some reason, even though BusyBox was supposed to be installed, it wasn't and I had to download a separate installer to make it all work.

Why does this app require permission to fine gps location?

Will try it. Hope it works better than wifi tether. Had it crash on me this weekend while power was out and totally destroyed my rom, not even restoring a back up would stop the force closes, also had journaling enabled.

Ma$etas said:
Why does this app require permission to fine gps location?
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Reason I'm not installing it

Ultro said:
Reason I'm not installing it
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Just keep your gps off lol. It's only required because the app requires root access. The app is safe...over 250,000 downloads and no complaints of safety issues

FrankyFiggz27 said:
Just keep your gps off lol. It's only required because the app requires root access. The app is safe...over 250,000 downloads and no complaints of safety issues
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So if i keep my gps off i shouldnt worry about anything then?
what about when i do turn it on why does it want the permission to fine my gps what does it need to locate me gps info for?
just cause 250K have downloaded doesnt make it safe just maybe no one has cared or even bothered to see what permissions it ask for all they cared for was having wifi tethering

Ma$etas said:
Why does this app require permission to fine gps location?
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http://opengarden.net/open-garden-mobile-apps/
lol: "You can view a map of our current users of the tethering application for Android: Open garden Wifi Tether Map"
http://opengarden.com/map/

Just used apktool and ran diff -ur -I '^ \.line [0-9]*$' wireless_tether_2_0_7/smali/ og.android.tether/smali/.
Now I'm pissed off.
A This is clearly based on wireless tether 2.x. This is a GPL violation, as they do not provide source code. How is opengarden different? There is code pertaining to wakelock handling, and:
B Functions that collect your GPS location and device id. I've browsed through their site, and they (claim) to have a plan to create a free public mesh network, but:
C They fail to mention this in the market description, or the app itself.
Since this modified GPL app, I am perfectly within my rights to modify the app, so I have removed all code pertaining to stats collection (as well as the FINE_LOCATION permission), and am posting this fork here, on the assumption that the wakelock handling makes this thing worthwhile.
Enjoy.

Has anyone tested this on a GB rom?

THIS WIDGET USED 9.5GB!!! in 1 week

thanks to this data usage feature on ics it warned that i was close to 10gb. i had no idea. its the pure news widget. thankfully i have unlimited data. but anyone have any idea how this is happening? i only have 3 news sources.
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sorry mate can't see ya pic

switch to manual updates.

qman66 said:
thanks to this data usage feature on ics it warned that i was close to 10gb. i had no idea. its the pure news widget. thankfully i have unlimited data. but anyone have any idea how this is happening? i only have 3 news sources.
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Google should log the average amount of data an app can use and write it on the market...

That is ridiculous, how often was it updating
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cordell507 said:
That is ridiculous, how often was it updating
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for a few days every few hours even though i had it set to 30 minutes it didnt work right. now its been updating every half hour and still the same crazy data. i mean its only a few lines of text for each article. i only have 10 newest showing. it doesnt make any sense. something has to be going on in the background that i dont know of.

hory chit
the battery life was probably terrible if it used this much :/

That's crazy! Have you mailed the developers? It must be images or something, text couldn't add up to that. Maybe leave it connected to your wifi and run wireshark or something (if you've got an adapter that will run promiscuous mode properly) - maybe you can see what it's doing...

jmbillings said:
That's crazy! Have you mailed the developers? It must be images or something, text couldn't add up to that. Maybe leave it connected to your wifi and run wireshark or something (if you've got an adapter that will run promiscuous mode properly) - maybe you can see what it's doing...
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i havent yet. i have a a little thumbnail image next to the text. this is just strange.

qman66 said:
i havent yet. i have a a little thumbnail image next to the text. this is just strange.
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holy crrrrap....9GB
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This must be a bug, the app developers wouldn't want everyone with their app using this much data from their servers every week!
ErGo_404 said:
Google should log the average amount of data an app can use and write it on the market...
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Good idea.

jmbillings said:
That's crazy! Have you mailed the developers? It must be images or something, text couldn't add up to that. Maybe leave it connected to your wifi and run wireshark or something (if you've got an adapter that will run promiscuous mode properly) - maybe you can see what it's doing...
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Images? Forget about images, this has to be downloading high quality videos to get to 9GB.

I have some serious security concerns about what this app is doing. You should try to sniff the data and see how much its sending versus receiving. I'd be curious to know what IP addresses it is communicating with. Did you install it directly from the market?
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Just read the comments on the market for this app. One other person reported it using 833 megs in 10 hours. That was back in July.
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It over 9000! (MB)
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I used to use pure messenger and calendar widgets without any surprises. That is insane though really...
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Maybe it is a bug in ICS's data use report? Try to contact your carrier to check if you have really used 9GB in the last month.
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You should contact the developer, he is very responsive and provide good support.
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Hi,
I am the dev of this app.
1. when you have such trouble, please contact me by email (hopefully somebody did).
2. check if it load images and images sizes. It doesn't load 'thumbnails' from the websites, but full images if thumbnails are not available ... so, if the website use big images of 2Mb ... it can goes quickly.
3. disable widget cache if it was enable
4. here is my widget with 3h refresh period and 8 feeds :
http://pureapps.planethoster.org/images/presentation/pne_data.png
5. if you use the internal viewer, all browsing you does in the viewer is counted ... video streaming, downloads...
@deekjx : For comments about 'security concerns', dump the UDP/TCP trafic if you want, there is nothing hidden. But, please, be careful before publishing such comments. Now, if the app doesn't come from the market, you can be right... few users reported Pure calendar hacked bersions containing viruses because they got it from a 'forum'.
Please, email me logcats just after a manual refresh to check what is wrong.

Same for me too
Switched to manual update worked fine. contacted dev through market

Strange question - limiting data use using an app on the Nexus?

Hello,
We are thinking about switching our users from BB to Android. On the BB they pretty much only use data for email as pretty much all other things like browsing on BB suck. We are worried they'll go over their data limit if they go to android. Is there a way to put something on their phone to make sure emails are priority and limit their browsing data usage?

Yes. I'm not 100% sure but there is a data mobile limit box you can tick in the data usage section. And i would venture to say there are some apps. I guess wait for somebody who has used it to detail it out for you as I have no experience using it.
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OK. It is easy. You just tick data mobile limit and use the limiter bar in the to slide the the limit. There is also a warning bar to specify when you get a warning. As an aside, you get a disclaimer saying Google and your carrier might calculate usage differently. In my experience the data usage has been within +- ~20mb. And usually it is within 10mb.
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Many carriers offer usage controls that limits data consuption/talk time/messaging. I know Verizon offers it for $4.99 per month and the controls are only accessible by the primary user on the account. 3rd party apps like the ones in the market are too easily modified by the device user and could cause issues in a business environment given mass users. Look into usage controls with your carrier. You need a concrete solution... Good call moving away from the sunk ship known as RIM.
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I would suggest using the data counters in your settibgs app. There you can provide your max usage and alarms for certain data milestones. This menu also provides information on wich app has been using the most. A great way for me to limit my data and save batery has been to put my phone in 2g only.
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wingnut76 said:
OK. It is easy. You just tick data mobile limit and use the limiter bar in the to slide the the limit. There is also a warning bar to specify when you get a warning. As an aside, you get a disclaimer saying Google and your carrier might calculate usage differently. In my experience the data usage has been within +- ~20mb. And usually it is within 10mb.
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Thanks - I have no idea where that data mobile limit thing is.

boe said:
Thanks - I have no idea where that data mobile limit thing is.
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It's a new feature in ICS that can be found under Settings -> Data Usage.
It looks like this (random screenshot from Google Images):
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boe said:
Hello,
We are thinking about switching our users from BB to Android. On the BB they pretty much only use data for email as pretty much all other things like browsing on BB suck. We are worried they'll go over their data limit if they go to android. Is there a way to put something on their phone to make sure emails are priority and limit their browsing data usage?
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Just be in for a shock. Android devices (or iPhones) will use much much more data than BlackBerrys. You can try and restrict it all you want but you'll never see BlackBerry-like data usage.

[Q] OS Service + others increasing my internet usage

Is there anyone who ever have the same problem with me? I look at my 3G Watchdog and realize that there is "OS Service + Others" which is using my internet usage frequently but i don't know what is that? I already uncheck active sync, background data, try using Droidwall when root (but I don't know which app that i have to block); but the "OS Service + Others keep using my internet quota. Thank you for your attention.
I am using Stock ROM XXLM6 and unrooted.

wira11 said:
Is there anyone who ever have the same problem with me? I look at my 3G Watchdog and realize that there is "OS Service + Others" which is using my internet usage frequently but i don't know what is that? I already uncheck active sync, background data, try using Droidwall when root (but I don't know which app that i have to block); but the "OS Service + Others keep using my internet quota. Thank you for your attention.
I am using Stock ROM XXLM6 and unrooted.
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need help immediately....

wira11 said:
need help immediately....
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Man, what's the frown for......every day you are alive is a Happy Day
You using Flash Video, or any Cloud Player, like Amazon Mp3, or Google Play, or Drive.....
are you allowing those or any Cloud connected service use 3G mobile data, or restrict to WiFi??
This is from App FAQ:
http://www.3gwatchdog.fr/faqs/
Is usage by application accurate [Pro]
Is usage by application accurate [version pro, Android 2.2+]?
Usage information is provided by the Android system, and unfortunately is rather approximative. As a rule of thumb global usage (as displayed in the main screen) tends to be more accurate, so you should trust it more.
Starting from 3GWP 1.9.0, streaming media traffic (e.g. YouTube) may be reported under the name "Streaming media" rather than under the apps which actually use it. However the usage of some applications (e.g. TuneInRadio) is correctly reported under their own name.
Measured usage not assigned to any specific installed application is listed under the name "OS services + others".
The lack of separate counters for Mobile and Wifi usages obliges 3GW to "track" connectivity changes to distinguish the current type of usage. This creates a risk of overlooking usage occurring while the 3GW service is not running. The service is automatically started on boot and normally stays running in the background, unless killed (manually or automatically) by a task killer, or by the system in case of a severe shortage of resources . If this happens, the service will automatically be restarted within 15 mn, but traffic by app consumed during that time will not be counted. Note that the same problem will not affect global usage because Android provides a dedicated counter for global mobile usage, so even if the 3GW service is temporarily down, the internal Android counters are still tracking usage and the 3GW service is able to catch up without loss of data when restarted.
The sum of all usages is displayed at the top of the screen can only be compared with the global measured usage, not with the billable usage.
Finally, it has been reported that the Dell Streak and Acer Mini E310 don't implement correctly the Android functions used by 3GW, and usage reported stays at 0 for all apps.
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irishpancake said:
Man, what's the frown for......every day you are alive is a Happy Day
You using Flash Video, or any Cloud Player, like Amazon Mp3, or Google Play, or Drive.....
are you allowing those or any Cloud connected service use 3G mobile data, or restrict to WiFi??
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anyway thx u for your wise advice man.. Sure you're right about every day that i'm still alive is a Happy day...
I'm just a little bit confuse about this data usage...because every time i see my phone it always increasing and i just want to know why...
And about any Cloud Connected service that you mention above how to restricting it from 3G mobile data? And which apps are Cloud Connected Service in GT-I8150?

wira11 said:
anyway thx u for your wise advice man.. Sure you're right about every day that i'm still alive is a Happy day...
I'm just a little bit confuse about this data usage...because every time i see my phone it always increasing and i just want to know why...
And about any Cloud Connected service that you mention above how to restricting it from 3G mobile data? And which apps are Cloud Connected Service in GT-I8150?
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This is a smart phone.....and data usage is part of the deal unless you turn off all Radio!!
Cloud App for instance Google Play Music...
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Or Amazon Mp3
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irishpancake said:
This is a smart phone.....and data usage is part of the deal unless you turn off all Radio!!
Cloud App for instance Google Play Music...
View attachment 1034378
Or Amazon Mp3
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In Indonesia our GT-I8150 doesn't have that apps...hahaha...but I don't have this problem when I bought this...this problem occur when I change my ROM to Stock ROM from Europe...

wira11 said:
In Indonesia our GT-I8150 doesn't have that apps...hahaha...but I don't have this problem when I bought this...this problem occur when I change my ROM to Stock ROM from Europe...
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What baseband?
I don't know, but does Indonesia use Asia baseband [Phone FW]?
Is Euro FW compatible?
BTW...those Apps, just an example, I acquired those, not default to Phone!!
Just using them as example of how apps can be set up to not use Mobile Data.... same with Tiny Shark or Doods Music Streamer....
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irishpancake said:
What baseband?
I don't know, but does Indonesia use Asia baseband [Phone FW]?
Is Euro FW compatible?
BTW...those Apps, just an example, I acquired those, not default to Phone!!
Just using them as example of how apps can be set up to not use Mobile Data.... same with Tiny Shark or Doods Music Streamer....
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My Stock ROM is DXLC1, now I'm using XXLM8 that is the Stock Rom for Slovakia..and Yes it's Compatible to my phone...

[SOLVED] Safe access to public wifi's?

Hi, soon i'm going to a vacation and would like to know what to use to access public wifi networks securely to avoid my personal data interception and generally be secure while browsing?
Thanks

VPN.
Google superfreevpn, but you will have the check what is the password before you use their VPN, because they change the password every now and then.
Pressed from my Maguro

Issues I see with superfreevpn:
-Uses PPTP (PPTP a history of insecurities)
-Restricts bandwidth
-Restricts use (no P2P, no torrents)
-8 hour time limit per session
-No idea who these guys are (no guarantee they aren't stealing your info themselves)
As an alternative, you could set up your own OpenVPN server at home. Most home routers can do this easily when using firmware such as OpenWRT, DD-WRT or Tomato, or you can set it up on a computer behind your router. Then you have a secure connection back to your own ISP, so you will have at least the same level of security/privacy you have at home. This is what I do, using OpenVPN for Android on my phone which uses the new VPN APIs introduced in ICS.
Hope this helps.

Hmmm, this seem to be a better option.:good:

Another alternative is to use Orbot from Google Play store, which implements Tor on Android.

Thanks guys, especially @phazerorg.
Umm while i understand the process of VPN you're talking about, what about data which is first sent to/through public WiFi AP?
WIll look into OpenVPN.
Do you have an article or link for me to get more in depth?
Thanks once again.

purpler said:
Thanks guys, especially @phazerorg.
Umm while i understand the process of VPN you're talking about, what about data which is first sent to/through public WiFi AP?
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If you mean before the VPN tunnel is established, it's true that some connections could be made. I think the best you could do here is to either turn off syncing and don't browse before the VPN is up, or make sure any syncing/browsing uses SSL. A little Google searching seems to indicate that the gmail app uses SSL, so no worries for that. For other apps, you'd want to investigate. Or shut off all syncing so pretty much no connections are made before you connect to your VPN. Once the VPN is up, you can have all traffic travel through it and it just looks like UDP packets of random data to the public wifi.
WIll look into OpenVPN.
Do you have an article or link for me to get more in depth?
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Nothing specific, but searching Google for "OpenVPN tutorial" turned up quite a number of useful-looking results, including some from the official OpenVPN site. I know there's a GUI app for Windows, and router firmware makes it easy. OpenVPN is popular and open source, so there's loads of resources and a community around it so you shouldn't have any trouble.

You can allways use opera mini as everythding goes through their servers. I would not trust free vpns as its like using a free access point. Who's to say they arnt looking at your data
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purpler said:
Thanks guys, especially @phazerorg.
Umm while i understand the process of VPN you're talking about, what about data which is first sent to/through public WiFi AP?
WIll look into OpenVPN.
Do you have an article or link for me to get more in depth?
Thanks once again.
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Once a VPN circuit is established, all data is encrypted between your device and the server. No one in the WiFi hotspot could read your data, even if they intercepted it. Neither could the WiFi hotspot operators.
The same is true of Tor, with the added benefit that the Tor node operators can't read your data, either, with the exception of the exit node. But the exit node operator can't tell who sent the data, because the packet headers have been stripped and replaced (several times).

phazerorg said:
As an alternative, you could set up your own OpenVPN server at home.
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I had issues with OpenVPN. I ended up setting up a linux server with IPSec instead. I just use the built-in VPN connectivity (L2TP/IPSec PSK, to be precise) to connect to my home server.
strumcat said:
Another alternative is to use Orbot from Google Play store, which implements Tor on Android.
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While TOR might be (arguably) great for "anonymizing", it does nothing for encryption. You can sniff packets from someone using TOR as simply as someone using a direct connection.
Edit: Actually, I need to look into TOR a bit more. Does anyone know for certain if it's endpoint-to-endpoint encrypted? The Orbot Play Store page says nothing about encryption, but rather only mentions the proxy chain effect, which would make my original statement correct.
DarkBanHammer said:
You can allways use opera mini as everythding goes through their servers. I would not trust free vpns as its like using a free access point. Who's to say they arnt looking at your data
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Again, this doesn't encrypt data, which means anyone in the vicinity can fairly easily sniff packets from you and plainly see your data flowing. Even worse would be people who have their own mobile access point, de-auth you from the public wifi, and then spoof the public wifi. It's actually fairly easy to do.

Tor is encrypted from your device to the exit node.
https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en
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hmm, TOR seems to be working fine in terms of ease of use and configuration. If everything is indeed encrypted than it's ideal solution for me.
Anyone else has an opinion?
Thanks guys!

What about man in between issue?

purpler said:
What about man in between issue?
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If the path is encrypted endpoint-to-endpoint, such as it would be in a VPN (or apparently with TOR... thanks for the info, strumcat, as I assume that applies to Orbot also), then a man-in-the-middle gets nothing. If someone gets between you and the wifi node, they would only see the encrypted gibberish.

that being said, TOR (Orbot) it is.
Thanks all!

Cilraaz said:
If the path is encrypted endpoint-to-endpoint, such as it would be in a VPN (or apparently with TOR... thanks for the info, strumcat, as I assume that applies to Orbot also), then a man-in-the-middle gets nothing. If someone gets between you and the wifi node, they would only see the encrypted gibberish.
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Yes, Tor is the name of the network itself. Tor Browser Bundle (for Windows) and Orbot (for Android) are provided by the Tor Project and the Guardian Project for accessing Tor. They both utilize Tor encryption and other features, You can always check to make sure that Tor is working by browsing to http://check.torproject.org site.
If you're using Jellybean and want to use the transparent proxying feature in Orbot, be sure to first enable "Use Default IPTables" in Orbot settings so it will work ok. Then enable "Transparent Proxying", and choose the apps you want to use Tor under "Select Apps". That's the easiest way to use it. When you want to use the apps normally again, just turn off Tor.
You can learn more about Tor and Orbot at https://www.torproject.org/

yes i did, works great.
Orbot is very elegant solution.
Thanks

strumcat said:
Yes, Tor is the name of the network itself. Tor Browser Bundle (for Windows) and Orbot (for Android) are provided by the Tor Project and the Guardian Project for accessing Tor. They both utilize Tor encryption and other features, You can always check to make sure that Tor is working by browsing to http://check.torproject.org site.
If you're using Jellybean and want to use the transparent proxying feature in Orbot, be sure to first enable "Use Default IPTables" in Orbot settings so it will work ok. Then enable "Transparent Proxying", and choose the apps you want to use Tor under "Select Apps". That's the easiest way to use it. When you want to use the apps normally again, just turn off Tor.
You can learn more about Tor and Orbot at https://www.torproject.org/
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Great info here, thank you.