On 28 May 2014 11:24, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
Or perhaps, USB cable between your phone and a PC and tether the PC to the phone. Plug the PC into an ethernet port somewhere on the network and do some routing magic (covering up the fact that I wouldn't have a clue how to do this) to send some of the traffic via your phone.
That's an interesting alternative (and handily on-topic for ALUG too). Given that there are several PCs in the office that currently get served DHCP addresses by the Draytek I can see it might need a bit of work though, but I'm certainly open to pointers?
(I've shied away from running a Linux PC as a router, mainly because the Draytek does everything reliably and replacing it with a PC is more likely to fail. DNS is hosted on a Linux box using dnsmasq, and it's noticeable that when that PC is down for any reason (eg rebooting for updates) everything else has to stop in the office because one way or another it needs Internet. But these days, given that the whole job could probably be done by a Pi, maybe it's worth reconsidering?)
Hopefully the USB cable would both power your phone and transfer your data.
That would be a useful plus!