Using my phone as a hotspot worked, hotspot in windows did not

[mesaone]

I was on a mobile job that had no WiFi available, but I wanted to use PT Control while setting up.

PT Control worked great when I used my cell phone to create a WiFi hot spot, with my computer and ipad connected to said hotspot

Creating a hotspot with my computer alone (http://lifehacker.com/turn-a-windows...com-1593327340) didn't work at all. Possibly my own mistake, who knows. But it was super easy with my phone.

[Darryl Ramm]

Why do you need a WiFi hub at all? Why not just use an ad-hoc network?

[YYR123]

I think most mortals don't understand how to set those things up Darryl......

I am mortal.....and I wouldn't have any idea where to start besides Google

[mesaone]

Originally Posted by Darryl Ramm

Why do you need a WiFi hub at all? Why not just use an ad-hoc network?

That's the part that didn't work.

[Darryl Ramm]

Originally Posted by mesaone

That's the part that didn't work.

Ad-hoc is very different than "creating a hotspot". With an ad-hoc network there is no hotspot/basestation/wifi hub and neither end is pretending to be one, its a direct peer-peer WiFi link. Some older versions of iOS has broken ad-hoc networking, I don't recall the versions. It's easy at least to set up an ad-hoc network and conform it's live (ping he other host, and see if Control works).

[mesaone]

With that in mind Darryl, I'll try this when I get home.

[Darryl Ramm]

Great, that's it. Also see the notes here for completely unrelated software, but the troubleshooting steps may help. http://www.logicinmind.com/index.php?id=75

[mesaone]

Thanks for that, I'll report back once I try this out.

[YYR123]

wow that was cool. and really pretty easy.


I still haven't tried to hook the control app up to it yet, but it appears doable.

thanks

dram

[mesaone]

So they removed the feature from Windows 8.1 because of course they would, right? Instead of mucking around with command line stuff I downloaded a bare-bones utility from here http://geekltd.com/create-connect-ad...windows-8-8-1/

And all is right with the world. I used it to create an a network (SSID ProTools, password of my choosing) and launched PT and PTControl. Worked right off the bat, no lag or anything.