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In this tutorial I will be showing you how to tether your MetroPCS Samsung Code internet connection to a pc or laptop.  Tethering is nothing  more then allowing you to use the internet connection from your cell phone on your computer.  After you complete this tutorial your MetroPCS Samsung Code will now act as a modem to the internet.  Some of the benefits of using MetroPCS and tethering your cell phone are as follows.

Advantages

• MetroPCS has no contracts unlike Verizon, At&t and Sprint
• MetroPCS allows unlimited phone, text and data connection
• MetroPCS only cost $50 a month compared to $70 – $80 a month at other providers
• Allows you to always have a internet connection on you pc as long as you cell phone can receiver internet
• MetroPCS will be getting 4g coverage first

Disadvantages

• Limited Coverage Area  (How often do you leave your coverage area?)
• Lack the latest and greatest cell phones like the Android and Iphone  (I don’t need my cell phone to light my cigarettes, that is what a lighter is for!)

The main scenario that most would want to be able to tether there cell phone to there pc or laptop is when you are on a business trip or vacation and are unable to access a wifi connection or a lan internet connection.  To start this tutorial off, the only equipment you will need is your Samsung Code cell phone, the usb adapter that came with the phone, a pc and maybe a blue tooth adapter if you don’t have the usb adapter.

So the first thing that you will need to do is power on your Samsung Code phone and then plug the usb adapter into your phone and computer.  After Windows Mobile Device Center has connected you cell phone to your pc, you need to download a few free programs.

The first program that you will need to download is the secpolicies.cab and place this in you \MyDocuments folder on your Samsung Code.  Once the secpolicies.cab program has been placed on you cell phone, simply install the program and power down your phone by holding down end call button for a few seconds.  After your Samsung Code powers down, you will then need to power up the phone by holding down the end call button for a few seconds.

The next program that you will need to download and install is the BJ.WM6.ICS.Enable.cab file.  Again just like before place the BJ.WM6.ICS.Enable.cab file within the \MyDocuments folder on your Samsung Code.  After you have installed this program, you will again need to reboot the phone by holding the end call button.

Once you have installed the secpolicies.cab and BJ.WM6.ICS.Enable.cab on your Samsung Code, navigate to the \MyDocuments folder on your phone.  You will now find a program called Cert.cab located within the \MyDocuments folder.  Simply run and install the Certs.cab program, then reboot you cell phone one more time.

After you cell phone powers back on, you will now find a application on your cell phone called Internet Sharing.  All you have to do now when you want to use the internet connection from you Samsung Code to your pc is plug in the usb cable from your phone to the pc.  Then click on the Internet Sharing application and click on the the connect button.  If you happen to have a bluetooth device on your laptop or netbook, open up the Internet Sharing application and change the PC Connection from USB to Bluetooth PAN.

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In this post I am going to show you how to setup a Western Digital My Book World Edition network hard drive.  The Western Digital My Book network hard drive is a cost effective solution if you need to be able to backup multiple computers on a local area network or want to be able to store and share files with other pc’s on a network.  The Western Digital network hard drive also includes Twonky media server, which will allow you to stream videos, music and pictures to many different media devices on your local area network.

In this tutorial I will be using Windows 7 operating system, but you should be able to following these same directions if you happen to be using Windows Xp or Vista.  If you have any problem locating the ip address of you Western Digital My Book, install the WD Discovery program.  So to begin this tutorial on setting up your Western Digital My Book World Edition, you will of course need to connect the hard drive with a ethernet cable to either a router, switch or hub; then plug the power cable in.  Once the hard drive boots up, go to:

• Start
• Network
• Locate MyWorldBook under the Storage Tab
• Right Click MyWorldBook and click install

After you have installed the software for your Western Digital hard drive, you will then need to right click on the MyWorldBook icon, but this time select View Device Webpage.  Once you have selected View Device Webpage you will be greeted with the Western Digital setup wizard screen.

Once the Western Digital Setup Wizard screen loads up, simply accept the agreement.  After you have accepted the terms for your hard drive, you will then be able to name your device if you feel that you need to.  Also make sure that you set the correct time zone for your hard drive, since computers rely heavily on clocking.

After you have set the time zone for your Western Digital My Book, you will then be asked to change the admin password for you device.  For security purposes, you will definitely will want to change this password.  The default login for you Western Digital My World book is “admin” for the user name and and “admin” for the password.  Just think about it, if you had some nudity pictures of yourself or financial documents stored on the hard drive and someone hacked your wireless router.  You would be in some serious trouble, so please always change the default password.

Once you have changed the default password for your the hard drive, you will then be asked if you want to use dhcp for your ip address or if you want to set a static ip address.  For novice users I recommend using dhcp, but I use a static ip address since I am constantly using ftp to upload and download files to my hard drive.  I really don’t like trying to find out what my ip address is for my hard drive every time I use it, that is why I set a static ip address.

After you have made you selection on what type of ip address to use, the device will be all setup to use.  The Western Digital hard drive may reboot to finish up the configuration, but other then that you are all set.

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In order to setup your Linksys router, you will first need to know what your Linksys router address is.  If your Linksys router is brand new then your Linksys router address will be 192.68.1.1.  Sometimes you may have to set your Linksys router address to another addressing scheme, due to your modem may be using the same ip address range.

To find out what your current default Linksys router address is simply open up the Command Prompt program by clicking on:

1. Start
2. All Programs
3. Accessories
4. Command Prompt

Now that you have the Command Prompt open, type in ipconfig.

As you can see my default gateway is 192.168.1.1 for my Linksys router.  Once you have found your default ip address for your router, which in our case is 192.168.1.1.  Simply open a web browser and type this ip address in URL bar.  Once the default gateway screen open for your Linksys router, you will be able to make changes to allow the router to work with your previous network equipment.

Linksys Router Ip Address Setup

1. Connect PC directly to broadband modem/router provided by isp
2. Open Command Prompt and type ipconfig
3. Write down current Default gateway and Subnet Mask
4. Disconnect Pc from the modem / router
5. Connect Pc to your Linksys router
6. Open Command Prompt and type ipconfig
7. Open web browser and type in default gateway from the command prompt program
8. Configure Linksys Router (See Ip Address Schemes below)
9. Connect the Modem / Router from Isp into the internet port on your Linksys router
10. You may have to unplug the Linksys router from the electrical to reset the router to acquire the correct ip addresses

Linksys Router Ip Address Schemes

More often then not, you should  be able to plug your Linksys router into your Isp mode / router and your Internet and Lan will automatically work.  But somethings your Isp will be using the same network scheme that the Linksys router is using.  So the easiest thing that you can do to make the network work, is to change the default Linksys router address.

Once the Linksys Basic setup page open change the Ip address to something other then 192.168.1.1.  Usually you can the ip address on the Linksys router to 192.168.2.1 and your network will start working.  After you have change the ip address on the linksys router, click the save button.  Most 3rd party routers such as Belkin, 2wire and Netgear tend to use either 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.1.254 as the default gateway and 255.255.255.0 as the subnet mask.

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