I was recently on vacation and checked into a hotel that did not have free wifi. At this point, I am basically enough of an internet addict to pay the absurd amounts of money for the wifi. I can usually mitigate some of this cost by just using my Motorola Atrix to access the internet over the cell network when I didn't need the full functionality of my netbook.

However, my strategy was foiled this time. I have had an almost complete cell phone blackout in my hotel. I'm not talking about my room here. I'm talking about the entire building. Granted, I don't have a great signal when I walk outside, but I have only looked at my phone a few times to see a single bar on it.

Well, this isn't really too bad. I mean, I have my netbook, and I can pay to get on the wifi. Of course, that's per client. I guess my phone is just an expensive little brick. There are things I want to do on my phone, though. It's a source of entertainment as well as a device for calling people and looking up restaurants.

I did a little searching around. I found several forums about how to get an android phone to connect to the internet through a computer. I was pretty happy with that since most people want to do it the other way. I finally found a forum that gave me what I needed.

The software that has saved a bit of my sanity (if there is actually any left) is called Connectify. It's pretty simple to set up. I only needed the free version. It will actually let you use the wireless interface to act as an access point as well as the way the laptop gets on the internet. I was able to set it up in a few minutes and get my phone on the internet through my laptop.

I honestly wonder if I could get rid of my wireless access point and just use Connectify...

If I give that a try, I will post the results.