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Tether(ing)

March 15, 2020 By

Tethering is the term used for broadcasting your phone’s mobile signal as a Wi-Fi network, then hooking a laptop – or any other Wi-Fi-enabled device – up to it to connect to the Internet. It can be referred to as a mobile hotspot, personal hotspot, portable hotspot or Wi-Fi hotspot.

When tethering, a phone essentially becomes a portable Wi-Fi hotspot.

If you’ve ever been in a public location, such as a train, and discovered someone’s phone listed as an available Wi-Fi hotspot, it means that someone’s phone is set up for tethering.

Tethering works by forming a connection between a laptop (to use the most common example) and a mobile phone. That connection can be a physical one in the form of a USB cable, or wireless through Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. These days, wireless is by far the more common method

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