Phone Tethering as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2018-05-06
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948 words · ~4 min read
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as prolific as free wi-fi has gotten it seems like
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somehow when you most need it it's not
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available or maybe the problem is that you just often find yourself needing to
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use your laptop out in the middle of nowhere
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fortunately most smartphones and cellular-enabled tablets these days
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support tethering and no
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i'm not talking about that dorky holster that came with your phone case
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tethering is the act of routing your phone or tablet's cellular data
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connection to another device such as a
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laptop tethering can be accomplished via a usb cable or even wirelessly which
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effectively turns your phone into a personal wi-fi hotspot
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so then how do you make this happen well assuming you've got a strong cellular
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signal you can enable tethering on iOS
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simply by going into the settings app and enabling the personal hotspot option
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on Android you'll go to the wireless and network settings tap more and find
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tethering and portable hotspot if you're tethering with usb you might
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need to connect your cable before some of the relevant options will become
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available but if you're using wi-fi a bit of additional setup is still
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required just like a home router you'll need to enter a name or ssid for your
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hotspot so your computer will know what the heck to connect to and optionally a
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password though i would definitely recommend doing this and securing your
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connection preferably with wpa2 security
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if you don't anyone in range can use your hotspot so they could run up your
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data bill or even potentially see what
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it is that you're doing you can also tether via bluetooth but
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due to its low maximum speed i'd recommend against it unless you have no
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other choice for some reason once you've followed these steps and
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connected to your hotspot on your second device via the usual process you're
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pretty much good to go but tethering does come with a few
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caveats the most obvious being that you're going to be limited by how fast
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your cellular network is and although lte connections that can get to 100
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megabits per second or more are becoming commonplace these days your real speed
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might top out far below what you're used to at home if you aren't getting an
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optimal signal you also might be fighting data limits
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imposed by your mobile provider even carriers that promise unlimited
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everything sometimes have a separate cap for
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tethering and or they severely throttle your speed once you use a certain amount
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of data often much lower than what your home isp allows
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and this assumes that your cellular plan
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even allows tethering at all if you bought your phone directly from a
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carrier they may have hidden away the tethering options or even gone as far as
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to disable them outright unless you pay
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a monthly fee so be sure to check the fine print whenever you sign up for a
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mobile plan although some resourceful users have found ways around carrier
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restrictions by jailbreaking or rooting their phones which you can learn more
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about up here or even installing special
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apps that hide exactly how much data is being consumed from tethering from their
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providers this particular practice caught the ire
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of t-mobile back in 2015 when some users
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were found to be consuming as much as two terabytes of data per month
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but even if you do have a cell plan that doesn't place onerous restrictions on
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tethering you may want to pick up a portable battery bank if you're planning
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to tether for any lengthy period of time as pushing all that data through your
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phone can drain it quickly especially if you're doing it over Wi-Fi which requires
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even more power to blast a wireless signal to your other devices which is
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