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Welcome and for now I'm using a Xiaomi Mi 8 Lite and today I'll show you how to
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enable and set up the portable hotspot. To get started let's look for the
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hotspot in our notification panel. So for me it looks like it is... there we go
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hotspot right over here. Once you find that you can hold it this will quickly
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take us to the settings where you can customize things like passwords, name of
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the Wi-Fi and so on. So let's click on the setup portable hotspot and
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automatically it selects the password which as you can see is just some
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randomly generated password. So let's tap on it once more, remove this one and set
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it to our own so it's a little bit easier to remember. There we go. From there you can
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also change the name of the hotspot or Wi-Fi depending how you want to call it
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By default it's going to be name of the device as you can see Mi 8 Lite and
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then below that we have things like security which I do recommend you to keep it as it is. You have also option to have no security which means that
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anybody can connect to a hotspot without a password. Then we have device
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identification, portable hotspot, just keep it as it is and AP band. We have two
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different choices so here this will depend on basically vary depending on
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what phone you have or what device you have that you want and that you
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want to connect to. So let me explain what I mean by that. 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi
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will be used by basically any device that can connect to a network and has
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Wi-Fi capability while the 5 GHz band will be a little bit newer. The
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benefit of the 5 GHz it's going to be faster and more stable connection but
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not every device will be able to connect to it. So what I advise you to do is
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simply turn it on and turn on your hotspot and see if the device that you
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want to connect to this hotspot with supports it by basically looking for the
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hotspot. If you don't see any hotspot by the name that is right here that means
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the device simply doesn't support 5 GHz Wi-Fi and all you need to do is go
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back here and change that to 2.4 and you will be golden. So anyway once you set
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one of those two click on the check mark right here to save the settings. You can
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also leave the entire settings page and all you need to do now is tap on the
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toggle to turn it on whenever you want to enable your hotspot. As you can see it
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does give you a little pop-up right here notifying you that the hotspot is active
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right now. So yeah. Now once you're done with it I do recommend you to turn it
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off otherwise it's gonna be using a little bit more battery and also if
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you're for instance at home and you set up using hotspot and you have
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overall Wi-Fi that you connect by default to with hotspot on as you can
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see right now Wi-Fi is enabled. If you turn on a hotspot this automatically
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disables your Wi-Fi so you will be only using your mobile data. That is because
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it is broadcasting the signal through your Wi-Fi. So yeah once you disable it
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it automatically goes back to using Wi-Fi. So anyway that is how we would set it up
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and use it and if you found this very helpful don't forget to hit like, subscribe and thanks for watching
