The connected laptop isn't working with the USB cable.
The connected laptop isn't working with the USB cable.
Using a Toshiba A500 is quite the story. The built-in Wi-Fi adapter only supports 2.4 GHz, so I swapped it out but kept failing after about fifteen minutes. I thought it was because I bought a cheap $12 adapter, but the original one still worked perfectly. Now I’m relying on an old S7 as a USB tether in a USB 3.0 port I installed into the express card slot—damn, those ports are gone. It’s functioning just fine. My latest speed test showed 80 Mbps, which is acceptable. I plan to get a new internal card soon, but for now it’s manageable. The issue is that I can’t cast from the laptop anymore. "No devices found." The Chromecast is working as I type this; the network is stable, all 18 devices are connected. Yet the computer’s IP has changed from 192.168.0.30 to 192.168.42.30—still on the same network, but the phone acts like a router, blocking direct contact. How can I work around that? Also, anyone got a Core Duo 9800 to share? (Or something similar with a 1600 MHz FSB and more than 3 MB cache)? Just asking.
Your laptop operates on another network segment. Your phone is behaving like a router, leading to a NAT problem. You’d likely need to configure port forwarding or set up a static route directly on the phone. It’s unlikely Android can handle this natively, so third-party tools would be necessary. I’m not familiar with any reliable apps for this task.