1 00:00:06,330 --> 00:00:09,750 - [Instructor] Let's talk about mobile hotspots. 2 00:00:09,750 --> 00:00:12,330 Sometimes you may be working at a laptop 3 00:00:12,330 --> 00:00:15,210 that has a wifi connection, 4 00:00:15,210 --> 00:00:17,850 and you have no access to the internet 5 00:00:17,850 --> 00:00:20,370 because there are no wireless access points 6 00:00:20,370 --> 00:00:22,080 available to you. 7 00:00:22,080 --> 00:00:25,860 If the laptop is not cellular equipped, 8 00:00:25,860 --> 00:00:30,630 then you're outta luck unless you have a smartphone 9 00:00:30,630 --> 00:00:32,760 with mobile hotspot technology, 10 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:35,970 and most smartphones have this today. 11 00:00:35,970 --> 00:00:36,803 So what you can do 12 00:00:36,803 --> 00:00:40,840 is you can create your own personal mobile hotspot 13 00:00:42,150 --> 00:00:45,360 using your smartphone 14 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:48,690 which will allow connection to the internet 15 00:00:48,690 --> 00:00:51,540 using whatever cellular connection you have, 16 00:00:51,540 --> 00:00:54,603 4G or 5G or what have you. 17 00:00:55,830 --> 00:01:00,090 At this point, once you create that hotspot, 18 00:01:00,090 --> 00:01:03,750 the laptop will use its regular wifi connection, 19 00:01:03,750 --> 00:01:07,290 seek out the hotspot and connect like it normally would 20 00:01:07,290 --> 00:01:12,290 to a wireless access point, and then use that 5G connection 21 00:01:12,780 --> 00:01:14,520 or whatever other cellular connection 22 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:17,190 you're working with on the smartphone 23 00:01:17,190 --> 00:01:18,840 to access the internet. 24 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,690 So your laptop is piggybacking the smartphone 25 00:01:21,690 --> 00:01:23,970 to gain that access to the internet. 26 00:01:23,970 --> 00:01:25,050 It's a great solution, 27 00:01:25,050 --> 00:01:29,670 if there's no public wifi or no hotspot available to you, 28 00:01:29,670 --> 00:01:33,000 create your own and use your cellular connection. 29 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,670 And you can have other devices connected 30 00:01:35,670 --> 00:01:37,473 to that hotspot as well. 31 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:42,150 As long as the device knows the password to connect, 32 00:01:42,150 --> 00:01:46,500 they can all share that smartphone's internet connection. 33 00:01:46,500 --> 00:01:49,140 Now, one thing to remember with this 34 00:01:49,140 --> 00:01:53,400 is that you will lose your wifi connection 35 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:55,080 on the smartphone. 36 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:56,580 So your normal wifi 37 00:01:56,580 --> 00:01:58,440 that you would be using on the smartphone, 38 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:02,280 that'll go away and you'll be working exclusively 39 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:07,280 with your cellular connection, 4G, 5G, or whatever. 40 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:11,430 But it makes sense because if you're doing this, 41 00:02:11,430 --> 00:02:15,990 then chances are, there is no wifi access point available. 42 00:02:15,990 --> 00:02:18,030 There is no public wifi 43 00:02:18,030 --> 00:02:21,630 or organizational wifi available to you. 44 00:02:21,630 --> 00:02:22,773 So it makes sense. 45 00:02:23,670 --> 00:02:25,830 So that's essentially how it works. 46 00:02:25,830 --> 00:02:27,720 Let's go ahead and show how to 47 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:31,200 set up the mobile hotspot on the smartphone 48 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:34,293 and then connect to it from a laptop. 49 00:02:35,820 --> 00:02:38,100 So we'll start at the smartphone, 50 00:02:38,100 --> 00:02:41,910 and right now I'm in settings and I'm in the network section 51 00:02:41,910 --> 00:02:44,550 and I'm gonna scroll down to tethering. 52 00:02:44,550 --> 00:02:46,650 We'll tap on tethering, 53 00:02:46,650 --> 00:02:48,690 and then you'll see we have the option 54 00:02:48,690 --> 00:02:50,910 for mobile hotspot. 55 00:02:50,910 --> 00:02:54,990 Going to tap on that, and you can see it's off right now, 56 00:02:54,990 --> 00:02:56,730 but I'm going to turn it on 57 00:02:56,730 --> 00:03:01,350 just by tapping on the enable button at the top right here. 58 00:03:01,350 --> 00:03:02,343 Give that a moment. 59 00:03:04,050 --> 00:03:06,270 Okay, that is now on. 60 00:03:06,270 --> 00:03:07,290 Now you'll notice that 61 00:03:07,290 --> 00:03:10,680 there's a variety of configurations here, 62 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:14,250 and you might wanna take a look through those, 63 00:03:14,250 --> 00:03:16,020 but what I'm interested in right now 64 00:03:16,020 --> 00:03:19,650 is setting up the hotspot and the password. 65 00:03:19,650 --> 00:03:24,300 So I'm gonna tap on the top here, configure mobile hotspot. 66 00:03:24,300 --> 00:03:27,000 And when we do so, we'll see the name, 67 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,400 so you wanna give this a wifi name, 68 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,800 otherwise known as an SSID, 69 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,360 and you want it to be broadcasting 70 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,990 otherwise your laptop and other devices won't find it. 71 00:03:36,990 --> 00:03:40,113 You could turn off broadcasting later if you wanted to. 72 00:03:41,070 --> 00:03:44,280 Then you wanna select your security type. 73 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:48,480 In this case, we're using WPA2 PSK, 74 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:50,580 and then you wanna set up a password. 75 00:03:50,580 --> 00:03:54,180 I've just done a real simple, basic password here, 76 00:03:54,180 --> 00:03:58,530 test 1234, and I'm going to remove this hotspot 77 00:03:58,530 --> 00:04:00,210 when I'm done with the video. 78 00:04:00,210 --> 00:04:03,780 So just using a basic password just to show how this works. 79 00:04:03,780 --> 00:04:05,190 We'll save it, 80 00:04:05,190 --> 00:04:08,703 and then we should be able to connect from the laptop. 81 00:04:10,170 --> 00:04:12,340 So let's go over to the laptop now 82 00:04:14,310 --> 00:04:17,520 and we'll click on the network icon here 83 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:19,710 in our notification area. 84 00:04:19,710 --> 00:04:23,100 So we would simply select Hotspot-dpro 85 00:04:23,100 --> 00:04:25,950 and then type in the password when it prompts us 86 00:04:25,950 --> 00:04:28,110 to actually make the connection. 87 00:04:28,110 --> 00:04:30,480 And that's all we'd have to do here 88 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,450 to get that connection to the internet. 89 00:04:33,450 --> 00:04:36,420 Now, I can't show the actual connection 90 00:04:36,420 --> 00:04:38,790 from the laptop to the hotspot 91 00:04:38,790 --> 00:04:42,120 because of how I am sharing video 92 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,880 and how I'm connecting to the laptop to show that, 93 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:48,000 so I've also brought up an iPad 94 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,670 and we'll connect to the hotspot from that. 95 00:04:50,670 --> 00:04:52,020 So we're just gonna go down 96 00:04:52,020 --> 00:04:54,150 to the settings sprocket on the bottom 97 00:04:54,150 --> 00:04:57,480 and tap on that to bring up settings, 98 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:01,380 and then we want to go to wifi on the top left 99 00:05:01,380 --> 00:05:03,693 where you can see it says not connected. 100 00:05:05,730 --> 00:05:09,363 And then it'll look for all the wifi networks out there. 101 00:05:12,540 --> 00:05:14,790 And if we scroll down there around the middle, 102 00:05:14,790 --> 00:05:18,753 you'll see Hotspot-dpro, I'll tap on that, 103 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:21,900 and then it asks for the password, 104 00:05:21,900 --> 00:05:24,930 which is just our basic password, test 1234, 105 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:28,653 and we'll tap join. 106 00:05:32,130 --> 00:05:32,963 And we're in. 107 00:05:32,963 --> 00:05:34,110 Now you can see the check mark 108 00:05:34,110 --> 00:05:38,730 next to Hotspot-dpro and we're connected. 109 00:05:38,730 --> 00:05:40,410 At this point, you always want test 110 00:05:40,410 --> 00:05:44,820 and make sure that you can connect to the internet 111 00:05:44,820 --> 00:05:48,363 or what have you and make sure that everything works. 112 00:05:49,260 --> 00:05:52,200 But if you do see the connection, 113 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:55,200 you know that you are connected to the hotspot. 114 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,170 So just remember that a mobile hotspot 115 00:05:58,170 --> 00:06:02,190 is a connection you set up on your smartphone 116 00:06:02,190 --> 00:06:05,700 that shares off your cellular connection to the internet 117 00:06:05,700 --> 00:06:08,763 for other devices such as laptops.