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Welcome, I'm Fenom, this is a Nokia 5.3 and today I'll show you how to enable and set
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up the portable hotspot option. So to get started, let's pull down the notification panel and find our hotspot toggle which I
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already know it's by default not going to be here. So what you want to do is tap on that little pencil icon and from here you should see hotspot
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somewhere under disabled options. So as you can see it's for me right over here
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Once you find it, hold it, this will allow you to then drag it over and from here you
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can just drop it, go back and there we go, it's right now visible here
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So once you have it right here, you can also hold it again and this will now take you to
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the settings of this hotspot. So let's tap on Wi-Fi hotspot and then we have several options right here
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So we have hotspot name, which is just going to be the name of the Wi-Fi visible in the list
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If you want to, you can change it or if you don't, you can just read the name that is
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right here and just try to remember it. Then we have security, which I would keep it as it is
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I believe the other option is just to turn it off, which will allow anybody to connect
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to your hotspot, which in turn isn't necessarily the best idea. And then we also have hotspot password, which is just some randomly generated garbage
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So let's remove this one. It's not easy to remember, nor is it fun
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So yeah. So I'm going to set my own. Now it does need to have eight characters in length, at which point you can save it
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and that's about it. You can also tap on advance and if you don't want this option, which basically will turn
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off hotspot automatically if it's not being used, then disable it. But I would recommend you to keep it on
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It helps you a lot. Usually, at least in my case, I don't remember to turn it off when I stop using it
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So this will turn it off for me, which also will remove the battery strain that hotspot
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implies on the phone. And below that, we also have the AP band, which allows you to set up either 2.4 gigahertz
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or 5 gigahertz AP band. Now this, this right here is something completely and entirely different from the 5G connectivity
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that phones nowadays have. This is strictly for Wi-Fi and it's something completely else and 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi has
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been already out for several years. So yeah. So your phone might support the Wi-Fi, 5G Wi-Fi, even if it's not a 5G capable device
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as you've already seen. The Wi-Fi one wasn't ever really advertised. Now if you're also wondering what would be the point for me switching this if, for instance
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my device doesn't support it, it just seems like a pointless thing, the 2.4 will be used
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by basically every device while the 5 gigahertz one will not. But the benefit of a 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi is that the connection will be faster and more
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stable, which would be the reason for me to try it out at least
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If you're not sure if your device supports it, simply enable it. And if your phone doesn't, or phone or whatever the device you're using to connect to the
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hotspot doesn't see the hotspot by whatever the name is here, then that just simply means
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that that device simply doesn't support the 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi. And all you need to do is go back here and switch it back to 2.4
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But if it does, then just keep it at 5, it's going to be better overall
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So anyway, once you have set up all these settings, you can either enable it from here
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by tapping on the checkmark like this, or by finding the toggle that we have added right
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over here and tapping on it. No, I did just disable it now
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So it's on when it's lit up in blue like it is right now
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And again, if you chose to have it so it doesn't turn off automatically, make sure you tap
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on a toggle, make it gray to turn it off, otherwise it will be just constantly on
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And Wi-Fi or hotspot does use your Wi-Fi. So in this case, if you have both of them enabled, if you have hotspot on and you're
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watching on your phone videos or something like that, it's going to be using your mobile data instead
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So just try to remember that. But anyway, that is how you set it up and enable it
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for watching. Transcribed by https://otter.ai
