What Is A WIFI Hotspot?

Today, the fast-paced lifestyle has led to people preferring the digital medium for undertaking even routine tasks like banking, shopping, and the like. Further, the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has made the remote working environment the new normal, which has necessitated the need to have good WIFI connections at all times. This increasing demand for high-speed WIFI connectivity has resulted in congestion across WIFI signal connectivity, leading to major disruptions while accessing the internet.

At such times, the home WIFI connection may also become slow. Making use of a WIFI hotspot is a good option. Users can now easily convert their Android or other mobile devices into a mobile hotspot, so as to share their WIFI hotspot with other devices in the vicinity. This ensures that even though your home WIFI connection does not work, you can still carry on with your internet-related tasks with the WIFI hotspot without any sort of interruptions.

Let us then explore what is a WIFI hotspot and why it is considered a popular way of accessing the internet.

What is a Hotspot?

 

A hotspot, also known as a WIFI hotspot, is a physical location, through which internet users can access the internet. This is normally undertaken by making use of WIFI, via a wireless local area network (WLAN) and router.

 

You can get the hotspot anywhere, right from your home to a garden or an airport. Public hotspots like in an airport are normally available for everyone and are mostly free of cost for free. Users can access public hotspots via wireless mode as an open network.  Private hotspots are available only to whom the user makes them available.

 

Hotspots help users to connect their mobile devices, tablets, laptops to the Internet via wireless mode. This enables users to conduct their activities online even when there is no internet connection at home, making it a very convenient medium.

 

How does one connect to WIFI Hotspot?

One can connect devices with a WIFI hotspot

·       Via Mobile Devices

Configure the hotspot to your mobile device like a smartphone, tablet and so on. Configurations could differ between smartphone manufacturers as they instal customized in-built UI features to enrich their user requirements.

Common steps configuring a WIFI hotspot are enlisted below.

1.     Select the Settings tab

2.     Select the Network & Internet button

3.     Select Hotspot & Tethering

4.     Select the Wi-Fi hotspot tab

5.     Turn the WIFI hotspot feature on and off

6.     Change the network name, security type, password, and related tasks if required

7.     Personalise hotspot features

8.     Turn on the WIFI hotspot to access the internet

 

·       Via Windows 10 PC

 

The Windows 10 PC can be converted into a mobile WIFI hotspot for the purpose of sharing your internet connection across other devices.

1.     Select the Start button

2.     Select the Settings tab

3.     Select Network & Internet tab

4.     Select the Mobile hotspot

5.     Select the internet connection which would be shared with other devices

6.     Select the Edit tab to enter a new name and password

7.     Switch on Share my Internet connection with other devices


Internet plans often come with different features, so some of them may not offer tethering and hotspot services. If a user requires these services, then they would have to pay additionally. Therefore, check the internet service plan before selecting the final one, so as to ensure that these services are included in the service provider’s internet plan itself.

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