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And following me is a Samsung Galaxy S21 and today I'll show you how to enable and set
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up the portable hotspot. Now to get started, let's find our hotspot somewhere in our notification panel
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For some reason I can't seem to find it. See if we can add it
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Oh, gee, there it is. It's called Mobile Hotspot and it's changed the icon a little bit, so that's why I was
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struggling with finding it. So once you actually find this toggle, what you want to do is simply hold it and this
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will take us to the settings. We can quickly customize a couple of different settings from it
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So number one, we have the hotspot name or network name in this case
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This is just going to be the name visible in the WiFi list, so you can select some different
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name if you want it, so you know what you're looking for. But by default, you're going to be looking for the name of your device
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Then we have password and as you can see, there is some amazing password
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So hoofy2666. We can change this by simply tapping on it. So let's go configure
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There we go. So we can change the name from here, change the password
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Now the password does need to have at least eight characters in length and once it does
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you will be able to save it. And then also we have the AP band. We have the ability to set one of the two
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We don't have an actual option to set both of them at the same time, which is a little
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bit of a shame, especially for a flagship device. But basically you can select here if you want a five gigahertz WiFi or 2.4
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Now if you're uncertain, what's the difference? The five gigahertz will be faster and more stable connection while the 2.4 will be used
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by wider array of devices, specifically older phones will be supporting the older 2.4 while
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the five gigahertz WiFi will be supported by all devices from like 2015 probably onwards
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It's really dependent, but something like along those lines. Now I'll also mention that the five gigahertz WiFi is something completely and entirely
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different to the 5G capability of phones in like 2020 and 21
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So this is completely unrelated. So finishing this off, if you're uncertain, if your phone supports it, if you turn on
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five gigahertz WiFi, simply your phone won't see any kind of WiFi by this name
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So if that is the case for you, once you enable the hotspot and you can see it, simply
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go back to the settings, drop it to 2.4 and you should be fine. So from here, let's save it
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And all we need to do now is simply tap on it and it will be enabled. But because I don't have a SIM card, which is right here, somehow can't enable it
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Let's see if I tap on it. So normally you simply tap on the toggle right here to enable it and this will turn it on
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But because when I tap on it, it gives me no SIM card. I can't. So, but in normal scrum, since you have a SIM card, it will work
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Now, one more thing. Once you enable the hotspot and you're done using it, make sure you turn it off again
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by tapping on the toggle. So basically when it's blue like this, this toggle should be blue
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I simply tap on it to make it gray and it will turn it off
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So basically when you turn off hotspot, it will turn off your WiFi and use that as a
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way of broadcasting the hotspot. So during the hotspot, while it's enabled, you won't be able to actually use WiFi yourself
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So that's why I'm saying once you're done with it, make sure you turn it off so your
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WiFi comes back online. With that being said, if you found this video helpful, don't forget to hit like, subscribe
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and thanks for watching
