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hey guys it's Brannon minimun from pocketnow.com and in this video we're going to show you how to do something that's pretty awesome with your windows mobile device if you're familiar with the Verizon and Sprint MiFi you know that it's a pocket-sized router that essentially pulls down Internet data and turns it into Wi-Fi so imagine you're in the car with a friend and you both have laptops there's AI beliefs in that obviously not a Wi-Fi router around you take out the my file you turn it on you both can get Wi-Fi high-speed access and use the connection at the same time you can do the same thing with your windows mobile phone through a special utility and actually the HTC hd2 will have this functionality out of the box but XDA for a few months now has had a utility that you can use on any Windows Phone and I'm going to demonstrate it right now so here I've got an HTC pur and I'm going to go to the Wi-Fi internet sharing wizard and I'm going to change the name of the of this particular connection to test and below that it has a WEP key and I'm going to click on start and it takes a moment to connect and now it's ready tells you what to do and it says test is running so right now on my netbook here I'm not connected to any wireless router just to sort of prove it if I launch Chrome try to get to a website nothing happens okay so in the bottom right corner I'm going to go to the connection manager and find test here it is right here I connect to it press connect it's going to ask me for the key which is one two three four five six seven eight nine nine zero press Enter connecting to test but wait about 10 seconds for it to just connect I'm going to move the device over here okay and it says select a location home network and let's see the internet connection here we go we are online right now through my phone and what's really amazing is that I can put this phone in another room or almost as far as you could go with a wireless router and I can still get a connection let's go to speedtest.net to get an idea of how fast my up-and-down speed is on this program using this program through my phone it's obviously obviously not going to be as fast as Wi-Fi because it's over cellular data but it actually comes pretty close to HSDPA for HSDPA so here i'm going to begin test and let's see what we get alright here it goes and it looks like I'm getting a pretty fast downstate actually about 1.4 megabits per second which is quite good considering that we're over Wi-Fi that's being broadcasted from my phone and let's see what the up speed it's probably gonna be pretty low yeah you definitely don't want to upload a YouTube video using this this connection it's about point 12 megabits per second but you get the idea and I've tested this while using two laptops at the same time the speeds stayed pretty consistent and it was a very a very good and easy experience to get multiple laptops connected so we'll place a link in the sidebar on how to get this program you're definitely gonna want to have an unlimited data plan on your device or else you're gonna probably rack up a lot of overages if you're using a laptop or netbook with your data connection from your phone that's it for now