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Welcome! In front of me is a Samsung Galaxy A42 and today I'll show you how to enable
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and set up the portable hotspot. To get started, let's pull down the notification panel, expand
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it and look for the toggle, which for me looks to be..
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There it is, mobile hotspot. So once you find it, what you want to do is hold it, so this
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will take us to the settings. And from here, you have the on switch, I do have the password
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which is probably the most important one, so let's tap on the password. And by default
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this is going to be some randomly generated one, so let's remove this one and set our
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own. It needs to have 8 characters in length and once it does, you can save it. From there
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we have the AP band, so you can change it from 2.4 GHz to 5 GHz. I'll mention that this
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is something completely and entirely different than the 5G capability of this device. This
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is strictly for WiFi and not for cellular data. So if you're creating this hotspot and
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you select the 5G, the phone or any device that will be connecting to it doesn't actually
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need to have 5G capability like this phone does, it just needs to have the newer chipset
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for the WiFi. That's kind of how I would say it. So devices from 2015 onwards, at least
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the 2015 flagships, did already support 5 GHz WiFi. But if you're not sure if your device
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supports it, all you really need to do is just select it, like it is right now, turn
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it on, and I can't because I don't have a SIM card, but you just turn it on right here
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and from there, on the other device that you want to connect to, simply go to WiFi section
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and look for the WiFi, which right here would be the name, so Galaxy A42 5G455C. So that's
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basically what I'll be looking for as a WiFi name. And if I just completely do not see
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it when it's enabled, that means that my device just doesn't support the 5 GHz WiFi. And all
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I would need to do is just go back, drop it to 2.4 and everything will work just fine
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So that is just as a little test if you want to. Now I would strongly advise that you try
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at least the 5 GHz one, because then it's going to be faster and more stable of a connection
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comparing it to 2.4. But like I said, the downside of it is that not every device will
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support it. And that being said, once everything here is set up, which is just kind of like
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the password and the name and the AP band, then you can turn it on or off from here or
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by going to the notification panel and finding the toggle and enabling it from here as well
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As you can see, anyway I try, it gives me that I don't have the SIM card, so at the
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moment I cannot enable it. But that is basically what you would do, you just tap on a toggle
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and it's going to be enabled. And that's it. So if you found this video helpful, don't
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