Tetrd: USB Universal Tethering

Robin Christianne Juson

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About this app

Tetrd is a simple tool that allows you to share your internet connection from your device to your PC and vice versa through a USB cable.

You can try it free for three days! When your free trial ends, you can purchase Tether Pro for unlimited tethering, Reverse Tether Pro for unlimited reverse tethering, or Universal Tether Pro to get both at a discounted price.

Tethering

Tethering allows you to share your device's wifi or mobile internet connection with your PC. You can use this if your carrier or data plan doesn't allow you to enable the built-in tethering feature of your device. Or if you have an unlimited data plan, but your carrier caps your hotspot/tethering usage to a certain amount, say 7GB.

Reverse Tethering

Reverse tethering allows you to share your computer's internet connection with your device. Use this if you're having issues with your device's wifi connection such as unstable ping or disconnections especially when playing games and your PC is connected to the internet via an ethernet cable. It can also be used in situations where wired internet is the only available option.

Note: Some apps only check for wifi or cellular connectivity and will not have internet access when reverse tethering.

Additional Features

• No root required
• No USB debugging required (except on Windows)
• Fast link speed (200Mbps+ on some devices)
• Multiple devices can be reverse-tethered simultaneously
• Local network (see server app settings)
• Auto-connect (see app settings)
• Supports ICMP echo/ping (requires Android 6+)
• Configurable network settings

VPN Usage

The app creates a local VPN so that your device can send data to your computer via USB. This is required when reverse tethering and optional when tethering. When tethering, a local VPN will only be created if you enable the "Local network" setting in the server application's network settings. This allows you to access servers (e.g. FTP server) in your PC from your device. Note that the app doesn't use, collect, or share any data that goes through the VPN. For more information, please visit the app's privacy policy at https://tetrd.app/privacy.

Server Application

This app requires another application to be installed on your computer. You can download it from the links below.

Windows 10+
https://download.tetrd.app/files/tetrd.windows_amd64.exe

MacOS 10.15+ (Intel)
https://download.tetrd.app/files/tetrd.macos_universal.pkg

Linux
https://download.tetrd.app/files/tetrd.linux_amd64.deb
https://download.tetrd.app/files/tetrd.linux_amd64.rpm
https://download.tetrd.app/files/tetrd.linux_amd64.pkg.tar.xz

Ratings and reviews

It's good, but not Great. When it works, it functions as advertised, but in my experience it's been frustrating at best, to simply get an established connection between the device and the server, often requiring a reboot of the server app, or the device app, or both before it will eventually open the dialog to connect. When it works, it's very good. I've even been able to play real time online games like Warframe w/o issue, just wish it was easier to get it to connect to it's server.

I paid for the full version (this is for a 3-day demo), and it does work, but very limitedly. It drops the connection every couple of minutes, claiming to be out of resources on a very new phone with no other intensive apps running. Better than nothing when you don't have the ability to make a wifi hotspot, but hardly any sort of reliable solution.

Seems to work very well! The connection is fast, and setup did not take very long. As of writing, use of the app for normal tethering past the three-day trial period costs $10, which I think is well worth it. Definitely set the user agent under the "advanced" settings so that everything appears to be from your phone to the provider.

What’s new

• Fixed some bugs