How to use your Android phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot

A mobile hotspot utilizes the phone’s 3G or 4G cellular network and shares that network via Wi-Fi with other devices around it. This is especially useful when you have to use your laptop or tablet at a location with no available wireless network. In this situation, you can temporarily turn your Android phone into a mobile hotspot and pick up the connection via Wi-Fi on your laptop/tablet. Mind you, this should only be used as a temporary solution as it utilizes a lot of data. Let’s look at the few easy steps to setup your mobile hotspot –

1. Tap on the Settings app on your Android phone.

2. Then tap on the Mobile hotspot and tethering

3. Tap on Mobile hotspot.

4. Tap on the green slider to enable the Mobile hotspot.

Your Android phone will now be a Wi-Fi hotspot. To connect another device to this hotspot, select the ‘AndroidAP’ option from the available Wi-Fi networks.

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