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Welcome, in front of me is a Xiaomi Mi 11i and today I'll show you how to enable the
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portable hotspot and also set it up. And to get started, let's pull down the notification panel and look for the hotspot toggle, which
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for me looks to be right here. So once you find it, you can hold the toggle, this will quickly take you to the settings
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where you can customize it by tapping on Setup Portable Hotspot. And right off the bat it selects password, which is actually a good thing, because if
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you tap on this little eye icon, you will see that the password that is generated right
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here is just some complete garbage password, just full of randomly generated numbers and letters
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So I would just remove this one and set a new one
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Now it does need to have 8 characters in length, so let's set it up
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There we go. I did set it up to be relatively simple, but honestly it doesn't really matter how complex
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or simple it is, it's just a hotspot. So if you're not planning to run it 24x7, the password shouldn't really matter that much
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But I still recommend you to have a password, because otherwise without it, people can just
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simply connect to your hotspot at any moment without your permission in a way
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Now above that we have the SSID, which is just a simple way of describing the name of
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the hotspot. You can change it if you want to, but by default it's gonna have always the name of the device
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So when you're looking for your hotspot, you're gonna be looking for this name right here
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And below that we have a couple of additional settings, so security, and like I said, keep
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it as it is, you can turn it off if you want to, but then anybody can connect to your hotspot
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Then we have device identification, portable hotspot, also select AP band. This will allow us to choose between 2.4GHz or 5GHz Wi-Fi
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If whatever the device you will be connecting to this hotspot with is relatively new, I
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would recommend you to go for the 5GHz Wi-Fi. This will provide you a more stable connection along with just a faster network
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And if you're not sure if your device supports 5GHz Wi-Fi, then you can simply enable it
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at 5GHz. Try to connect to it. If the device doesn't see your hotspot at all, that means that it doesn't support it
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But if it does see it, then it supports it and you can keep it
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Now going back to the non-supporting option, if the device doesn't support it, then you
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can just go back here and change it back to 2.4GHz and it should work as well without
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any kind of problem there. And that's about it. Now once you're done with setting it up, make sure you tap right here on the check mark
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to save the settings. And from here, you can pull down the notification panel once more and tap on the toggle to turn
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it on whenever you need it. Now additionally, when you enable it, the hotspot will use a little bit more of your
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battery on the device. So when you're done with the hotspot, try to remember to turn it off
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If you don't need it, you don't really... it's basically a shame to waste the battery
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and charge your device more often just because the hotspot is enabled when it's not needed
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So to do so, tap on the toggle again and now it's off
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So that is how you would set it up and use the hotspot. And if you found this very helpful, don't forget to hit like, subscribe, and thanks
