Turn Your Phone Into A Mobile Hotspot for Mardi Gras

Having trouble connecting to your local Wi-Fi hotspot? The airport asking you to pay for internet? Sounds like you could use this app called FoxFi. It lets you turn your phone into a Wi-Fi hotspot. Here’s why you should be downloading it:

• It’s free. Purchasing this feature through a cellular provider can cost around a C-Note a month. That’s $1200 a year.
• It allows you to connect multiple devices, instead of Bluetooth and USB tether which usually only allows one connection at a time.
• You don’t have to worry about carrying around an extra device to provide internet access, let alone charging up something else. Your phone is all you need.
• Nearly everyone has a 4G phone nowadays, so you know the connection will be decent enough to navigate on. I’ve heard of online multiplayer games being played with these.
• You can add a password to keep your network private so people like me can’t take all your bandwidth when I see an open network.

So far, it’s only available on the Android Market. I’ve seen a similar app called MyWi that requires you to jailbreak your iPhones first. I’ve always said that an Android phone delivers stock what iPhone/iPad users have to hack their devices to do, but hey. Download the app and tell me how it works for you. Is the speed of the internet up to par? Were you able to upload your pictures and videos to Facebook, Twitter, & YouTube like normal? – @GeicoTheQue
Here’s a link to an informative page on Wi-Fi tethering.