- [Instructor] Let's talk about mobile hotspots.
Sometimes you may be working at a laptop
that has a wifi connection,
and you have no access to the internet
because there are no wireless access points
available to you.
If the laptop is not cellular equipped,
then you're outta luck unless you have a smartphone
with mobile hotspot technology,
and most smartphones have this today.
So what you can do
is you can create your own personal mobile hotspot
using your smartphone
which will allow connection to the internet
using whatever cellular connection you have,
4G or 5G or what have you.
At this point, once you create that hotspot,
the laptop will use its regular wifi connection,
seek out the hotspot and connect like it normally would
to a wireless access point, and then use that 5G connection
or whatever other cellular connection
you're working with on the smartphone
to access the internet.
So your laptop is piggybacking the smartphone
to gain that access to the internet.
It's a great solution,
if there's no public wifi or no hotspot available to you,
create your own and use your cellular connection.
And you can have other devices connected
to that hotspot as well.
As long as the device knows the password to connect,
they can all share that smartphone's internet connection.
Now, one thing to remember with this
is that you will lose your wifi connection
on the smartphone.
So your normal wifi
that you would be using on the smartphone,
that'll go away and you'll be working exclusively
with your cellular connection, 4G, 5G, or whatever.
But it makes sense because if you're doing this,
then chances are, there is no wifi access point available.
There is no public wifi
or organizational wifi available to you.
So it makes sense.
So that's essentially how it works.
Let's go ahead and show how to
set up the mobile hotspot on the smartphone
and then connect to it from a laptop.
So we'll start at the smartphone,
and right now I'm in settings and I'm in the network section
and I'm gonna scroll down to tethering.
We'll tap on tethering,
and then you'll see we have the option
for mobile hotspot.
Going to tap on that, and you can see it's off right now,
but I'm going to turn it on
just by tapping on the enable button at the top right here.
Give that a moment.
Okay, that is now on.
Now you'll notice that
there's a variety of configurations here,
and you might wanna take a look through those,
but what I'm interested in right now
is setting up the hotspot and the password.
So I'm gonna tap on the top here, configure mobile hotspot.
And when we do so, we'll see the name,
so you wanna give this a wifi name,
otherwise known as an SSID,
and you want it to be broadcasting
otherwise your laptop and other devices won't find it.
You could turn off broadcasting later if you wanted to.
Then you wanna select your security type.
In this case, we're using WPA2 PSK,
and then you wanna set up a password.
I've just done a real simple, basic password here,
test 1234, and I'm going to remove this hotspot
when I'm done with the video.
So just using a basic password just to show how this works.
We'll save it,
and then we should be able to connect from the laptop.
So let's go over to the laptop now
and we'll click on the network icon here
in our notification area.
So we would simply select Hotspot-dpro
and then type in the password when it prompts us
to actually make the connection.
And that's all we'd have to do here
to get that connection to the internet.
Now, I can't show the actual connection
from the laptop to the hotspot
because of how I am sharing video
and how I'm connecting to the laptop to show that,
so I've also brought up an iPad
and we'll connect to the hotspot from that.
So we're just gonna go down
to the settings sprocket on the bottom
and tap on that to bring up settings,
and then we want to go to wifi on the top left
where you can see it says not connected.
And then it'll look for all the wifi networks out there.
And if we scroll down there around the middle,
you'll see Hotspot-dpro, I'll tap on that,
and then it asks for the password,
which is just our basic password, test 1234,
and we'll tap join.
And we're in.
Now you can see the check mark
next to Hotspot-dpro and we're connected.
At this point, you always want test
and make sure that you can connect to the internet
or what have you and make sure that everything works.
But if you do see the connection,
you know that you are connected to the hotspot.
So just remember that a mobile hotspot
is a connection you set up on your smartphone
that shares off your cellular connection to the internet
for other devices such as laptops.