[lubuntu-users] usb tethering not working?

[Basil Fernie]

Hi Marlon,

I use USB tethering most of the time, and have done for several versions 
of Lubuntu, once nm-applet started working as desired. (Before that I 
booted into Q4DOS for reliable connections.) But now both Lubuntu 16.04 
and 16.04.1 work impeccably on several laptops around the house.

Yes, I connect through my cellphone's USB tethering facility. Yes, both 
the laptop and the tablet show 3 or 4 local wifi points. Only 1 of them 
is open for public use and that is the municipal streetpole-mounted one 
about 70-80m from my house. It is not line of sight, and the signal is 
too weak to use from here. If I want to use it I prefer to drive 600m 
down the road to the municipal library which has relatively safe parking 
and fewer contesting users so the data rate is sometimes not too bad. 
But there is a daily cap of 500MB so I can't even download a small Linux 
distro without using uget or similar over a couple of days. And the 
practical rate is probably between 28kB/s to maybe 150kB/s. For serious 
speed I need to crank up uget to accept 2 input channels, one of which 
will be the vanilla wifi connection on the laptop, the other will be the 
USB tether from my cellphone which is simultaneously downloading via 
free wifi. Sometimes I will replace this wifi channel with plain old 3G 
at my own expense, if the wifi situation is desperate. But whichever way 
the signal is getting /into/
the phone, it will be getting to the laptop via USB. (Exceptionally, I 
may enjoy 1MB/s.)

I do occasionally turn my phone into a wifi hotspot, if a couple of the 
home laptops need to be downloading stuff simultaneously, but incoming 
is still via 3G.
Point is, I have 3 or 4 different versions of Lubuntu which all work 
fine with USB tethering. I don't like leaving the wifi hotspot password 
lying around on the laptops in the connection dialogue settings because 
I've had some serious Out Of Bundle overcharges incurred by this, and 
USB tethering allows much  tighter financial control. For which to 
happen, it needs to work - and it does. This e-mail will go out on a 
through a USB tether, via LXLE 16.04.1LTS, FWIW.

Peace to you,
Basil



On 09/02/2016 02:16 PM, Marlon Ng wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Narcis Garcia <informatica at actiu.net 
> <mailto:informatica at actiu.net>> wrote:
>
>     Unless your mobile device runs Lubuntu, this mailing list has
>     nothing to
>     do specifically to wireless tethering.
>
>     Lubuntu in the traditional computer should allow to connect through a
>     Wifi device to a wireless network if it's present and properly
>     configured.
>     Nothing specific to wireless tethering.
>
>
> I understand, but I wasn't talking about wireless tethering, I was 
> talking about USB tethering, which worked fine in Lubuntu 14.04, but 
> not anymore in 16.04.1  .  You may read my response to Liam Proven.
> Thank you.
>
>

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