How to Tether an Android to a PC via PDANet+: Wi-Fi
Tethering your Android phone to your PC using PDANet+ via Wi-Fi is easy. In this article, we are going to walk you through the steps, so you can use your Android's internet connection on your PC, and then share it with your other devices using Connectify Hotspot.
- You need to have PDANet+ app installed on your Android. Click this link to download PDANet+ to your Android.
- This method requires your computer to be capable of connecting to 2 Wi-Fi connections at the same time. Most computers can only connect to one Wi-Fi hotspot at a time. You may need to have a USB Wi-Fi adapter on this setup.
- Connectify Hotspot can't use Bridged network access with PdaNet. Use Routed, the default.
Step 1: Purchase Connectify Hotspot PRO or MAX from the Connectify website. Connectify Hotspot treats a PdaNet connection as a dial-up connection, like a USB 3G/4G modem, so sharing it needs Hotspot PRO or MAX. On Hotspot Lite (free), the PdaNet Broadband Adapter shows a PRO badge under Internet to share.
Step 2: Launch PDANet+ on your Android. To do this, open the PDANet+ app and put a check on WiFi Direct Hotspot.
Step 3: Download and install PDANet Desktop for PC in order to use PDANet+. You can go http://pdanet.co/install/ to download the PDANet Desktop for PC. If you need more help in installing PDANet+ or connecting to PDANet+ you can refer to this page: http://pdanet.co/help/
Step 4: Make sure you have a Wi-Fi card installed on your PC and that it’s on.
Open Windows Settings > Network & internet > Wi-Fi and check that Wi-Fi is turned on. If your computer doesn’t have an internal Wi-Fi card, get an external Wi-Fi USB adapter and plug it into a USB port of your PC. Windows will install the appropriate drivers, or you may be required to install them - just see the documentation that comes with the device. You may need to restart your PC before being able to use the external Wi-Fi USB adapter.
Step 5: Click the network icon at the right end of the taskbar. On Windows 11, click the arrow next to Wi-Fi to see the list of networks.
Step 6: Connect to the Wi-Fi network name and password as shown on the upper part of PDANet+.
Step 7: Share the connection with Connectify Hotspot. On the Hotspot screen, choose your phone's connection under Internet to share, and then click Start hotspot. A connection made through PdaNet is listed as the PdaNet Broadband Adapter. If your phone's connection is listed as a Wi-Fi network instead, any edition of Connectify Hotspot can share it, including Hotspot Lite.
For every step, see How to use PDANet with Connectify Hotspot.