Sunday, February 9, 2025

How to connect a Hotspot to a Laptop

In this article I will be sharing with you how to connect a hotspot to a Laptop. Go nowhere as we take a look at this brief article, which you are about to learn from.

In this article I will be sharing with you how to connect a hotspot to a Laptop. Go nowhere as we take a look at this brief article, which you are about to learn from.

What is a Hotspot?

This is a setup on androids or smartphones which aids sharing of data either from a phone to another phone or a desktop or laptop. This article contains guides on how to go on with these process. As a matter of fact for your laptop or PC to have internet connection, you will need a strong network source. One of the sources is a Hotspot, with its aid, data can on the mobile network can be used to access to surf the World Wide Web on the PC or Laptop.

You should always know that using your phone as internet source for your laptop, you are not to limit a data limit function activated, else this feature will not work. What am I trying to say in essence? I mean when connecting your hotspot to your device, you are to deactivate or switch off your data serve as this limits data sharing.

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How to connect a Hotspot to a Laptop

The process involved in this, is pretty easy as I will be using an android phone for this lesson, all you have to do is to follow the procedures laid down below.

  • Go to “settings” on your smartphone
  • Tap on “Hotspot & Tethering”
  • Tap on “Wifi hotspot settings and use management”
  • Tap on “Set up Wifi hotspot”
  • Input your network name and set your password
  • This is incase you have setted your hotspot
  • Then on your smartphone turn on your hotspot
  • Turn on the Wifi of your device by clicking on the Wifi Network icon on the Task bar
  • Refresh for your device name to reflect
  • Click on it
  • Click on connect
  • Input your network password

Then after completing the steps above, you can now start browsing.

 

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