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Welcome, in front of me is an Asus Zenfone 8 Flip and today I'll show you how to enable
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and set up the portable hotspot. To get started, pull down the notification panel and look for the hotspot toggle which
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remains right over here. So once you find it, you can tap on it to enable it but you probably won't know the
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password because it's some randomly generated one. So I do recommend you to hold the toggle, this will take you quickly to the settings
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where you can customize things like, well, the password as an example. So let's tap on hotspot here and start off by selecting the password right here and to
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be honest this password is fairly simple by default but we can remove this one and set
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our own. Now it does need to have 8 characters in length at which point you will be able to save it
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You can also change things like hotspot name, which you can see right up here
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By default it is the name of the device but you can change it to whatever you want
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And lastly, things like the AP band, as you can see by default it is set to both which
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is a really nice option here. That basically provides you with, I guess, best of both worlds but I think if it's on
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both it will start using your Wi-Fi antennas for this so keep that in mind
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And we also have the option right here to turn off the hotspot automatically after 5
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minutes when it's not being used. So if that is something that you don't want, you can disable it but I would recommend you
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to keep this on. Usually, at least for me, I do forget to turn off my hotspot when I'm done with it and this
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will just kind of save me from losing extensive amounts of battery when I don't really need to
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So if you're not using the hotspot there is no point for it to be running but when it is running it's consuming more battery
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So I highly recommend keeping this on. And lastly we have the Wi-Fi type
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This phone is one of the not very many, at least at this moment, at the point of recording
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it, which comes with Wi-Fi 6, which is the newest Wi-Fi generation, I guess
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Now not very many devices will support it. I believe with Wi-Fi 6 you will have a little bit more battery usage but also Wi-Fi 6 is
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a way faster connection than, for instance, the Wi-Fi 5 but like I said, not many devices
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support it. So I am actually unaware if turning Wi-Fi on Wi-Fi 6 does affect the connectivity or
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if it just kind of, the device doesn't support 6 if it switches to 5 automatically
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So that is something that you will need to find out. But if, for instance, you can't see your hotspot, just go back here and change it to 5 instead
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This is the default though. So anyway, once you have set it all up the way you want it, you can simply leave this
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settings right here and all you need to do now is find the toggle, tap on it to enable
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it, and there we go. It's right now enabled. So you can connect with your device to it
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Now like I mentioned, once you're done with it I do recommend you to turn it off or keep
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the timer on so it turns off automatically after 6 minutes. And lastly, I am checking right now on my old device and it does see the Wi-Fi 6 version
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of the network even though this device doesn't support it so I should be good to go with it
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So anyway, that is how you would set it up and use it and if you found this very helpful
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