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General Support => Installation and Set-Up (Devices) => Topic started by: randyv on December 10, 2020, 09:59:11 PM

Title: 202 using cell phone hotspot
Post by: randyv on December 10, 2020, 09:59:11 PM
In my vehicle, I have an all in one printer and I need to fax from it. 

Currently I scan to PDF to my laptop and use a paid($16/month) efax service to send/"fax" someone.

I want to connect my printer/fax via phone line to OBI202, connect OBI202 via wifi or blutooth to my cell phone, use my cell phone hotspot as internet.

I think this can be done via BT dongle.  Am I correct? Would the connection be stable enough?

I tried USB tethering but it did not work.
Title: Re: 202 using cell phone hotspot
Post by: SteveInWA on December 11, 2020, 04:39:24 PM
No, that's not going to work.  If you could even get a connection at all, it would be far from stable enough to survive faxing even one page.

Please delete all of your duplicate posts.
Title: Re: 202 using cell phone hotspot
Post by: drgeoff on December 12, 2020, 02:34:42 AM
Quote from: randyv on December 10, 2020, 09:59:11 PM
In my vehicle, I have an all in one printer and I need to fax from it. 

Currently I scan to PDF to my laptop and use a paid($16/month) efax service to send/"fax" someone.

I want to connect my printer/fax via phone line to OBI202, connect OBI202 via wifi or blutooth to my cell phone, use my cell phone hotspot as internet.

I think this can be done via BT dongle.  Am I correct? Would the connection be stable enough?

I tried USB tethering but it did not work.

Better, but not guaranteed, chance of working using OBiWIFI/OBiWIFI5G to connect Obi202 to cellphone hotspot.