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Welcome. In front of me is a Xiaomi 12T Pro and today I'll show you how you can enable and set up your portable hotspot
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So to get started, let's pull down our notifications straight from the top. And I guess we don't extend, we have just pages
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So on one of the pages we'll see a hotspot toggle. So for me it's on the second one right over here
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Now once you see your toggle, first time around hold it. This will quickly take you to the settings where you can customize a couple of the settings for it
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Now primarily the most important settings in here would be the password
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So let's select the, as you've seen, set up portable hotspot. And it automatically selects hotspot password as you can see
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You can tap on an eye to view the password that is randomly generated
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But as the name implies, it is randomly generated. It says absolute mess of letters and numbers which I do recommend just removing
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From here you can set up your own password that has at least 8 characters in length
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It can be letters, numbers, doesn't really matter. From there, save it and that's really all you would need to change
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Now obviously you have couple additional settings like for instance name of the hotspot, security, device info
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which below that we have AP band and hide SSID. Now actually I'm going to go quickly into couple of these
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So security just provides you the option to set up a password
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I do recommend having that on otherwise anybody can connect to your hotspot which
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if it's on your phone you might be running out of data pretty quickly
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Now below that we have the, just device info, just leave it as it is
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Below that AP band we have choice between 2.4 and 5 GHz
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Now this, if you don't know what it is, keep it at 2.4. It will make your life a little bit easier
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The reason I'm saying this is because even though 5 GHz is better, not every device will support it
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And when a device does not support 5 GHz WiFi it just simply won't show you the hotspot whatsoever
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It's not like it's going to give you some notification, oh it's unsupported or something like that
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No, it just doesn't see it at all. While 2.4 is utilized by any kind of device that has WiFi connectivity
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And then below that we have hide SSID. And then below that we have hide SSID
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I don't recommend turning that on. It would make it so you would have to go to WiFi list and then add manually the name of it
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type it in correctly and also the password to connect to your hotspot
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Which just adds a lot of annoyances which don't really give you much security I would say
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So anyway, I'm going to save this and now once it's all set up we can just find the toggle, tap on it
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and there we go, the hotspot is right now enabled. Now one more info about the hotspot
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Once you're done with it I do recommend trying to remember to turn it off, otherwise it will be running indefinitely in the background
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and while doing so it's going to consume more of your battery life. So if you're not using it there's really no reason for it to be running
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And you can just turn it off by finding the toggle once more, tapping on it to toggle it off and that's it
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