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Set up and use your mobile phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot
When you use your mobile phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot, you can share your mobile phone's Internet connection with other devices via WLAN. Remember, you need to set up your mobile phone for Internet.
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Do the following on the device which will connect to your Wi-Fi hotspot:
Activate WLAN.
Find the list of available WLANs.
Select the network name you keyed in in step 2.
Key in the password you selected in step 2 and establish a connection to the Wi-Fi hotspot.
When the connection is established, you can access the Internet from the other device.
1. Find " Portable Wi-Fi hotspot settings"
Slide your finger down the display starting from the top edge of your mobile phone.
Press the settings icon.
Press the settings icon.
Press More.
Press Mobile network sharing.
Press Portable Wi-Fi hotspot settings.
2. Select settings for Wi-Fi hotspot
Press OK to start the setup.
Press the field below "ROUTER NAME (SSID)" and key in the required name for the Wi-Fi hotspot.
Press the field below "SECURITY".
If you don't want to password protect your Wi-Fi hotspot:
Press None.
Press None.
If you want to password protect your Wi-Fi hotspot:
Press WPA2 (AES).
Press WPA2 (AES).
Press the field below "PASSWORD" and key in the required password.
3. Activate Wi-Fi hotspot
Press Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot until the function is activated.
Press OK.
4. Establish a connection
Do the following on the device which will connect to your Wi-Fi hotspot:
Activate WLAN.
Find the list of available WLANs.
Select the network name you keyed in in step 2.
Key in the password you selected in step 2 and establish a connection to the Wi-Fi hotspot.
When the connection is established, you can access the Internet from the other device.
Activate WLAN.
Find the list of available WLANs.
Select the network name you keyed in in step 2.
Key in the password you selected in step 2 and establish a connection to the Wi-Fi hotspot.
When the connection is established, you can access the Internet from the other device.
5. Return to the Home screen
Press the Home key the necessary number of times to end the session and return to the Home screen.