If you use mobile hotspot for internet and want to print wireless, read this.

[Scott & Heather]

Fred,

My setup is a little different than what you're describing.
My iPad is my only Internet source via the Verizon LTE chip inside it. The iPad can broadcast said Internet to other devices when I turn on its hotspot feature. This gives the devices Internet access through the iPad. So my wireless laptop and wireless desktop in the bus both have Internet through the iPad sitting on the front seat of our coach. To make things more confusing, I connect my wife and my iPhones to the iPad internet as well because the iPad is set in a location in the bus that gets decent LTE signal (the front where all the glass is v.s. the bedroom area where I have two tiny windows and a whole lotta metal). So all my devices get their internet from the iPad. The problem is, the iPad doesn't act as a true router. My Wii won't connect to it, and the printer won't connect to it. So the only way to print was to do one of two things:
1. Disconnect a computer or iphone from the ipad and connect it wirelessly to the printer wireless and then print
2. Print from a computer using USB.

Neither of these options were very useful. Half the time the iphone or computer would lose the printer settings in between print jobs and not print and USB doesn't work when I want to print from my iphones (which is a lot actually). So I needed a way to take the iPad internet and rebroadcast it through a router. Most routers today will not tether to an iPad with ios8 so I've been stuck. This little virtual router program allows my wireless desktop computer to connect to the iPad internet, rebroadcast it via a central network and simultaneously allow all of my devices to connect to the printer wirelessly. I can now print from my iphones, ipad, laptop, desktop etc. And anyone who connects to my wireless network can do the same if I give them the super secret password. Here's a diagram of how I was connecting before using virtual router:




Here's what it looks like using my desktop as a virtual router:

[Fred Mc]

I don't use any app. The printer has the e-print option.Both my ipad and iphone see the printer as a wifi network. As a matter of fact I get a better connection between the ipad/iphone and the printer than I do with my pc. I had to resort to a cable connection between the pc and the printer. My ipad does not have LTE capability but will only work with a wifi connection. However my iphone can act as a hotspot which then allows me to access the net with the ipad.

Regards

Fred.