The option of setting up your own hotspot is available for Android devices ever since the Froyo 2.2 version. It does not matter if you are in the city, the park or your way to work, simply activate your own hotspot and share a data connection. This way, you can carelessly do your work, read the news or listen to music online via a laptop, tablet or some other device. In order to even be able to connect another device on your network, first you have to create a hotspot on your phone.
How to setup hotspot on Android?
Click on Settings, then go to Connections>More networks. Select the option „Tethering and portable hotspot“ and then enable the Portable Wi-Fi hotspot option. This is where you need to configure the hotspot.
You should enter the name of your hotspot network under the Network SSID and choose one of the three types of hotspot protection (open, WPA PSK or WPA2 PSK) under Security. The last option is the Password where you can, as the name says, enter your password. When you are done with the configuration, click on Save.
If you have set and created a hotspot correctly, your signal will be visible on other devices in a form of a Wi-Fi signal. Now you are able to take another device (for example, your laptop or tablet), turn Wi-Fi on it and find the wireless network under the name you had entered in the Network SSID option. Simply click on it and enter the password if you created it. Your device now has Internet access via another device; in this example your phone and its hotspot network.
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