The simplest solution to connect an Android phone to a computer via WiFi is ES Explorer. The application is free and has clear interface, however, most Android phone owners are limited to using it only as a file manager. To open the network capabilities of the program you must:

If the connection is successful, all directories on the computer available for public use will be displayed.

To open files from your phone to your computer via WiFi, it is recommended to use another menu item: “Network -> FTP”. No authentication or selection of additional settings is required. The application will independently create an FTP server on your smartphone, open the required port and provide a ready-made link for connection.

You can view or download files from your phone via WiFi in any browser. It is enough to enter the specified data in its address bar.

If, in addition to viewing files, you need to download from an Android device or upload folders to it, this can be done through standard operating system applications. To do this, just enter the server address that was provided by the program directly into the “Explorer” line. Directories located in the smartphone’s memory will open in the same form as files and folders on the computer itself.

Important! The most complete use of the smartphone's file system when connecting in this way can be achieved using specialized FTP clients, such as FileZilla or SmartFTP. But even when working through the standard File Explorer file manager in Windows, you can copy files from and to your phone.

Using the AirDroid app

In addition to viewing files on your smartphone, this application provides full synchronization phone with computer. Connecting to a computer via WiFi is carried out in several stages.

It is important to remember that the Android device and the computer must be connected to the same network. Moreover, if a router is used, a wired connection can be used for the computer, and the smartphone will connect via WiFi. If difficulties arise at the synchronization stage, the smartphone may be connected via mobile Internet.

After synchronization is confirmed, the connection to the phone is completed. Almost any action that can be performed can be done remotely, via a computer and a WiFi connection. The interface is designed as a separate desktop. In the upper right corner, information about the device and the amount of free memory are displayed. Just below is the control panel, with which you can send files and folders from your computer to the device.

The icons on this desktop work like menu options on the phone itself. For example, the call log displays full call details. Synchronization is performed in both directions - with the ability not only to view records, but also to delete them. The changes will be applied on the phone.

When you open contacts, all numbers in the smartphone's memory are displayed. People from notebook You can send SMS or call using your computer.

From interesting features Applications can be noted using the Android device's camera. There are not many practical applications of this feature, since the phone is already within the range of the WiFi signal.

Connecting to the device screen via WiFi works in the same video streaming mode. There may be a delay when updating information, but it is not so large that it interferes with your experience.

AirDroid also gives you full access to file system smartphone, like ES Explorer. Data on the phone is transferred via WiFi in both read and write mode.

Solving possible problems

If you are unable to connect your phone to your computer via WiFi using any of the suggested methods, restrictions may be set by your router. In some cases, its settings can set a mode in which various devices in a local network they do not have a direct connection with each other, but are used exclusively to access the Internet.

You can change the settings in the router control panel.
For Huawei: "Home network -> WiFi Settings - WiFi encryption - Enable access point isolation."
For TP-Link routers, the corresponding item is in the menu: “ Wireless mode-> Advanced settings -> Activate AP Isolation.”

If the connection via FTP is successful, but the smartphone does not display other devices in the ES Explorer “LAN” menu, it is recommended to change the sharing settings on the computer.

Useful video: The easiest way to connect your phone to a computer via Wi-Fi

Most of those who own a smartphone for the first time sooner or later wonder: how to connect an Android device to a computer via WiFi?
If you are tired of transferring files from personal computer on Android device and back using a flash drive or memory card, or you dream of watching movies and listening to music from your PC via WiFi, these couple of methods will help you using well-known programs from the Google Play Store.

Download the latest version of the program ES File Explorer and install it on your Android device.
After launching the program, you will see the main menu of the program and a list of files on your SD card. If the card is not inserted, the program will display a message that the card is missing. In this case, you can switch to viewing files in the tablet’s internal memory by clicking the large button at the top left with the image of a memory card.
In order to display the network environment, click on the small button labeled “PDA” located in the upper left corner of the window and in the menu that appears, select the “LAN” item (local computer network). A new empty window will open to display a list of network resources.

To scan network environment Press the button with the image of a magnifying glass, after which the network scan will begin.
After the scan is completed, a list of servers (computers) with their network addresses will appear on the screen.
If your computer is not found during scanning, you can add it manually. To do this, go to menu -> create -> server, and in the window that opens, enter network address computer or folders on it, login, password, server name. If a login and password are not needed, check the “anonymous” box. It is not necessary to enter the server name. If you did not enter a name, the address entered in the first field will be displayed instead in the list of network resources.

We press the OK button, and we see how a new server has appeared in the list of network resources; by tapping on it, we will see its folders and drives to which network access is open.
All. Now you have the ability to copy and open files on remote computer via local network.
If you cannot access your computer running Windows 7, try Control Panel -> Network and Sharing Center -> Additional options shared access, check the box next to “Disable password protected sharing”. And make sure that the “Turn on network discovery” and “Turn on file and printer sharing” options are also enabled.
Also, do not forget to enable sharing in the properties of the drive or folder to which you want to give access over the network and set permissions for users, if this option is available.

Total Commander, as you know, is a classic two-panel manager, and in order to copy a file over the network, we need to open a folder located on the computer on one panel, and the local tablet folder on the second, and then simply drag the desired file from one panel to the other.

First of all, we need to install the application itself. Total Commander can be downloaded.

After this, you will need to add a plugin to the program to work on the local network. To do this, click on the “Add plugins (Download from website)…” item in the main program window:

After which a window will open asking you to go to the plugin download page:

Click the “OK” button, after which the browser will start and the following page will open in it:

We need to select the second item LAN (Windows network) Plugin and click on the link Download+Install
In the window that opens, select Play Store

The LAN plugin window will open in the Play Store. Click on the “Install” button
After installing the plugin, the LAN icon (Windows shared network directories) will appear on the Total Commander main screen:

Using this item, you will navigate to files and folders on your computer. However, first, we need to access it. To do this, click on the above icon and add a new server to the list of computers by clicking on the corresponding icon:

In the window that opens, type:
The name of your computer as you want to see it in the list:
Computer network name or network address, username and password:

You do not need to set a username and password if your computer has network access to folders and directories for all users.
To find out the network address of your computer, click on the WiFi connection icon with the second mouse button and select “Status”, and in the window that opens, click on the “Details” button.

In the IPv4 Address line you will see the network address of your computer.

All. Now you can access your computer's folders and files via your local network via WiFi.

If you cannot access a computer running Windows 7, try in “Control Panel” -> “Network and Sharing Center” -> “Advanced sharing settings” and check the box next to “Turn off password sharing” protection."
Also, make sure that the “Turn on network discovery” and “Turn on file and printer sharing” options are also enabled there.

Also, do not forget to enable sharing in the properties of the drive or folder on the computer to which you want to give access over the network and set permissions for users, if this option is available.

Greetings, dear readers!
Today, almost every second person has such a convenient thing on the road as a tablet computer. Therefore, in this article I will look in detail at how to include Android 4 in our local wifi network - after all, this is the operating system that most modern devices work with. We will learn how to connect it to the Internet, how to connect Android to a PC via wifi and a few other interesting and useful things.

Internet WiFi Android 4

I write “4” since this is the newest version, but on the rest, wifi is configured in the same way. I wrote about simply connecting Android to the Internet via wifi a year ago in an article about a home network - there is nothing complicated about it, so I won’t repeat myself, but will simply show you a video that tells how it’s done.

We are more interested in learning about other possibilities for operating an Android tablet within a wireless network. For example, how to connect it to a computer? To implement this idea, you will need to install one additional program - wifi manager “ES Explorer”. Download it for free from Google Play. The program replaces the standard folder and file viewer and significantly expands its capabilities.

We need to select “LAN” or “Local” - depending on how you write it. There is no need for an additional connection to the local network - after all, if your tablet is already connected via wifi to the router, then it is already inside your network. After that, click on the “Search” icon to search for computers within the network. It should be noted here that in order for something to appear as a result of this search, you must either:

1. To create a home group- I wrote about how to do this in. To do this, you must have a Windows version higher than the Home Basic version.

2. Or have the Home Media Server program running on your computer. I analyzed her work when...

So, if one of these conditions is met, then you will have computers inside the local network or a computer with a home media server enabled. Either their names or their IP addresses can be displayed.

Now you can go to any of them and see the contents of folders that are shared, that is, they are publicly accessible from the network.

And finally, the third option is to make a LAN server on Android itself. This does not require the two conditions outlined above.

First you need to create a new account with a password on your computer (Start - Control Panel - User Accounts).

After that, go to the LAN section on the tablet and click on the “Create” icon.
Enter the computer's IP address and login/password for the newly created account.

In the name field, enter what will be displayed in the list - the name for the computer. I just entered his IP.

That's all, you can view folders for general use.

Connecting to an FTP server using a WiFi program for Android

Another cool feature of the ES Explorer program that uses a wifi connection via Android is to connect to a configured FTP servers flash drive - remember, we did this too.
To do this, select the “FTP” item in the same drop-down list from the upper left corner of the program.

As the server, we indicate the IP of the router to which the drive is connected. In my case it is 198.162.1.1
And further down the list are the login and password specified for working with it. We leave the port “21”.

After this, we will receive a list of files that are available for the account you entered.

Camera Android WiFi

But that's not all! From our favorite Android tablet we can monitor the built video surveillance system running on the program. This is very easy to do - just enter the IP of the computer and the port on which this program is running into the browser line - for example, for me it is 192.168.1.225:1010. Or, if you use the DDNS service, the level 3 domain you registered. We discussed all the details about setting these parameters in the article about organizing surveillance, the link to which I provided above.

If you are talking about distributing the Internet via Wi-Fi for your phone/tablet on Android users first of all, then after a while there is a desire to transfer your files to your computer via the same Wi-Fi. This approach will allow you to obtain several advantages - quick access to remote media (including playback of audio/video files), and... there is no need using bluetooth or USB cable!

In this guide I will describe how to implement:
1) Connection mobile device To hard drives Windows PC;
2) General principles creating a home local network (LAN).

Connecting an Android device to LAN

So, here's what we need (standard set):

1. Mobile device (in my case Asus tablet Nexus);
2. Android application ES Explorer;
3. The computer whose hard drives we will connect to;
4. A router to which a computer and an Android device are connected;

It is assumed that mobile device you are already connected to the router via Wi-Fi, since this topic deserves a separate discussion, we will not consider it within the framework of this article.

Setting up a local network

Usually, when connecting through a router, there are no problems, everything happens automatically, dynamic IP addresses for devices are issued. But it is important that all your computers are in the same workgroup. How to do this?

Go to “Control Panel > System”, look for the section “Computer name, domain name, workgroup name” and click “Change settings” and “Change” again.

In the "Work group" field write "WORKGROUP". Then click “OK” and reboot the PC.

Go to "Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center" and share the folders.

If for some reason we receive an error about the RPC server being unavailable, then go to “Management (right-click on the “My Computer” icon) > Services and Applications” and start the services:

• Remote procedure call (RPC);
• Server;
• DCOM server process launcher;

We try to detect our PCs in EN Explorer, if unsuccessful again, move on to the next section.

Setting up IP addresses

If it is difficult to connect devices on a local network, it is recommended to register the IP addresses of devices manually. The task is tedious, but not difficult :)

1. On your computer, go to “Control Panel > Network and Internet > change the view to “Large icons” in the upper right corner > Network and Sharing Center > Change adapter settings.”

We select our connection, my laptop is connected to the router via an Ethernet cable (“Local Area Connection”), so I’m setting it up. You can configure “Wireless connection” in the same way.

2. To make things easier for yourself, click right click mouse over the icon of our connection and select the “Status” item, in the window that opens, click the “Details” button.

We are interested in the current IP address of the computer and the main gateway. We will need them in the next step. Leave this window open for now.

3. Again, right-click on “Local Area Connection” (point 2). Select "Properties" from the list. And go to the properties "Internet Protocol Version IP (TCP/IPv4)".

Connecting Android to the local network

In this article we will look at how to connect a phone or tablet to a computer’s local network. This is useful even in cases where you do not have a local network as such, but only a computer connected to a wireless network. The advantages of connecting to a local network are obvious - you will be able to access files and Windows folders, right on your phone.

This is necessary, for example, when you need to watch a movie on your phone. To do this, you don’t have to connect it to your computer, copy it to your phone, and so on. You just need to view it by connecting to a local folder. Well, let's get started setting up the phone's access to the local network.

First of all, you need to set up a local network on your computer and establish access to certain files and folders that you will have access to in the future. This is done quite simply; all you need to know is how to set up a local network in Windows.

And in order to connect your phone to the local network, you will need an application. As an example, let's take the ES Explorer application. This is a fairly popular program file manager, and with its help you can really get local access to the computer. You can download it from the Play Market, there are no problems with this.

After installing the application, launch it and go to the network connection tab (at the top of the screen, you need to select the computer icon labeled LAN). Now, press the “Scan” button and search for local networks in your phone’s access area.

Another connection path can be created by creating it manually. That is, you will need to click on the “Create” button and configure the connection parameters manually. In other words, knowing the connection parameters to your network, your phone will manual mode make connections. To do this, you will need to know the IP of the computer, and also set a password, if you have set one on your local network. After this, the phone will connect to the local network and all folders and files open for access will become available to you.

That's all you need to know about connecting your phone to Android control, to the Windows local network. In fact, this is all much simpler than it might seem at first glance, besides, you can use other applications for such a connection, but the example given is the easiest to implement.

Local network(in our context, a home network) is a group of interconnected computers, laptops, printers, televisions located within a house or room.
Advantages of using a local network:
- Access to general network services.
A) seamless exchange of file resources over the network (no need to transfer a file (photo, music, movie) from one computer to another using a USB drive, you can transfer it using local home network).
B) Using a network printer. If you have a printer installed at home, using your home local network you can print from any computer/laptop to this printer.
C) Using a home network to build a gaming area. Many games support playing over a local network, and if you have one, you can play games with computers on your local network.
- All participants in the local network can access the Internet (if configured). If you use Wi-Fi to build a home local network, then tablets and phones can also be connected to the local network and access the Internet from them.
You can create a local home network in various ways, I will give diagrams of the most popular of them, starting with the most primitive and ending with more complex methods, with setting up the Internet on a local network.

Connecting two computers/laptops into a home local network using a network cable.

Let's look at the simplest way to connect two computers into a home network (computer - computer or computer-laptop). For this we need two computers/laptops and one network cable. Modern network cards are able to recognize what type of crimp your network cable has, so you can crimp it or buy a crimped cable Computer-Hub/Switch (direct crimp).

A schematic computer-to-computer connection looks like this:

The advantages of this method of creating a home network:

All you need to create a network is a cable and a clear head.

In this way, in most cases, you can only connect two computers/laptops, since most computers/laptops have one network card.

You must manually enter the IP address and mask on all computers/laptops on your home network.

Connecting several computers/laptops into a home local network using Wi-Fi.

For this method, you will need Wi-Fi on your computers/laptops.

Connection diagram:

The advantages of this method:

No wires

High workplace mobility

Connecting network devices into a home local network using a switch (switch).

For this method we need several computers/laptops, the same number network cables and switch (hub). The general connection diagram using a network switch looks like this:


Those. We connect one of the devices (laptop, computer, printer or TV) to each switch port.
The advantages of this method:
- Ability to connect more than two computers/laptops to a local network (depending on the number of ports in the switch)
Cons:
- You need to additionally buy a switch (switch), it costs about 500 rubles.
- You must manually enter the IP address and mask on all computers/laptops on the local network.

Connecting computers into a home local network using a router.

Using a router, you can set up a home local network with the Internet, if your router supports wireless transmission Wi-Fi data, then in addition to computers, laptops, printers, TVs, you can add tablets and phones to the local network.
Scheme of a home local network using Wi-Fi router/router:


With this method of creating a local home network, you need to enable DHCP on the router - a service responsible for automatically distributing network settings (this function is enabled by default).
Pros of creating a home network using a router:

Helps to connect various devices (computer, laptop, printer, tablet, smartphone) into one local network.

Ability to set up Internet on your home network.

No need to manually enter network settings on every device.

The need to purchase a router (from 1000 rubles) and configure it.

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Users who have modern gadgets - smartphones or tablets - sooner or later have a question: how to connect Android to their home network?

After all, sooner or later everyone will want to access content from their mobile local computer. It is important not only to familiarize yourself with the files, watch videos, photos and listen to music, but also double-sided copying of files.

What is required to connect

• Wi-Fi router to which the device must be connected;
• computer with Windows system;
• configured Internet access from the very mobile phone, on which the file manager (ES Explorer) must be installed.

Connection instructions

1. by adding an account, create a new mobile username: go to the "Start" menu, select "Settings", and then - "Control Panel" and click on " Accounts users", add new entry, indicating the boundaries of the rights of the user being created;
2. go to the "Access" tab;
3. select "Sharing";
4. V context menu select a pre-created mobile username, and you can also set the permission level when reading files;
5. Next, you should open the settings menu on the mobile phone and activate Wi-Fi: this option will become available if you go to the “Wireless Networks” section;
6. connect to the network by choosing the correct name and carefully entering the password; In this case, you can select the option “show password characters” to avoid errors when entering it.

Once Android is connected to the network, the user will immediately have access to all folders and files to which access is allowed, and will be able to perform the necessary actions with them.