It happens to the best of us. You are working on a deadline and your internet goes down. Whether is high winds, an ice storm, or even equipment malfunction, not having the ability to connect to the internet can really hurt your quest to reach your deadline. The good news is, there is an Android program that is amazing at taking care of this problem for you by helping you use your phone to connect to the internet.
Thankfully, most Android phone plans require that users have an unlimited data plan. Because of this, you will not incur high charges that happen when you reach your limit of anything on which your cell phone provider has restrictions. You must have a USB cable for this to work.
If you go to the Android Marketplace, you can search for PdaNet and download it for free. The instructions that come with it are very simple and direct. You download the PdaNet program to your phone, connect your phone to your computer via USB cable, and then access the program from the computer and download a driver to the computer. The program itself gives you all of the instructions you need.
One great feature of the program is the on screen text messaging. If your receive a text message while your computer is hooked to your phone, it shows up on the computer with the option to type a response. You can also answer your phone by disconnecting it from the USB port. The computer will pause what it is doing and ask you to click a box when you reconnect and are ready to go back to using the web.
Using PdaNet is not going to be as fast as your normal cable modem connection. Videos will be slow to load, and occasionally unviewable at all. However, if your problem is getting to your email, writing an article before a deadline, or playing a quick flash game of online Farkle, PdaNet will work well for you.