Many of you probably are aware you can use your smartphone to access the internet with your computer. For those who don't I will describe how to do it.
1. Go to settings in your phone and you should see an item labeled Personal Hotspot.
2. Turn Personal Hotspot "ON"
3. Password Protect your Personal Hotspot
4. Turn on your computer and click on network connections. You should see your personal Hotspot which will be whatever your smartphone's name is: ie Bill's Phone.
5. Click on Bill's Phone and you will be asked to enter your password. The password will be the one you assigned to your personal hotspot.
6. Your computer will then use your smartphones network thru your cell provider to access the internet.
7. A word of caution: Insure that you have sufficient data time available thru your cell provider so that you don't get a huge bill for excess data usage.
8. This can be used in situations where you need to check email etc, but don't have internet access or don't know how to access email thru your smartphone.
9. Typically you are only using data when the timer which is usually a spinning circle of some sort is spinning. Once the internet page has loaded you should not be using any of your data allowance which is expressed in a monthly allowance of Gigabytes unless you have an unlimited plan.
10. Therefore, if you load a News page, say your local paper, you can read it at your leisure.
1. Go to settings in your phone and you should see an item labeled Personal Hotspot.
2. Turn Personal Hotspot "ON"
3. Password Protect your Personal Hotspot
4. Turn on your computer and click on network connections. You should see your personal Hotspot which will be whatever your smartphone's name is: ie Bill's Phone.
5. Click on Bill's Phone and you will be asked to enter your password. The password will be the one you assigned to your personal hotspot.
6. Your computer will then use your smartphones network thru your cell provider to access the internet.
7. A word of caution: Insure that you have sufficient data time available thru your cell provider so that you don't get a huge bill for excess data usage.
8. This can be used in situations where you need to check email etc, but don't have internet access or don't know how to access email thru your smartphone.
9. Typically you are only using data when the timer which is usually a spinning circle of some sort is spinning. Once the internet page has loaded you should not be using any of your data allowance which is expressed in a monthly allowance of Gigabytes unless you have an unlimited plan.
10. Therefore, if you load a News page, say your local paper, you can read it at your leisure.