How Do You Turn Your Android Phone Into A Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot?

Share your android smartphone or tablet internet data connection with your friend’s smartphone, tablet or laptop devices.

As like as iPhone Wi-Fi hotspot features many android devices with 2.2 (Froyo) versions or more have a built-in Wi-Fi hotspot feature to create a portable Wi-Fi hotspot (wireless) network. With this features, you can share your internet data connection with other smartphones, tablets as well as computers.

In traditional tethering, you would share an internet data connection with a single device using USB cable or Bluetooth with the help of software such as PdaNet. But in case of portable Wi-Fi hotspot, you really don't need to have any app or software installed on your devices. And you will also get simultaneous Wi-Fi internet access facility for several devices. However, you can also charge a fee for your Wi-Fi hotspot internet access.

Configuring your smartphone and tablet as Wi-Fi hotspot is very simple; just turn on the Wi-Fi hotspot feature in your phone. Then the Wi-Fi signal will start to transmit and will appear as like an actual wireless access zone that your other smartphone, tablet or laptop devices can connect to.

Here you will discover step by step instructions on how to turn your android devices into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot to create a wireless network.

Turn your android phone into a Portable WiFi Hotspot

Steps to turn on Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot features on your android devices (smartphone or tablet):

1. Go to "Setting Menu". You can go there by pushing the "Menu Button" on your device. Then you have to tap on "Setting".
2. Within Setting screen, tap on "Wireless & Network" option.
3. Then you would see "Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot" option. Now "Check the box" beside "Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot" option to turn on hotspot features. Then your phone will start to act like a wireless access point.

• To adjust and check settings for hotspot, tap on the menu called "Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot Settings". You will require to do this, if you do not know the default password, which will be created for your Wi-Fi hotspot so that you can take a note of it, to connect other devices. 
• You can be able to change the default password, router name (SSID), security level, and also manage users to connect or not to connect in your wireless Wi-Fi network through Wi-Fi Hotspot Settings.

 

Turn your Android Phone into a Portable WiFi Hotspot

Steps to Find and connect to newly created Wi-Fi Hotspot:

1. To establish wireless connection with other devices and to share internet access, you have to find the Wi-Fi hotspot option on other devices. It should done automatically. If don't, you will need to find wireless networks option on other devices as before (Settings > Wireless & Networks > Wi-Fi Settings).

2. Finally, you have to input the given password to establish connection.