How to share the mobile connection of your smartphone?

In these times of confinement, connection to the Internet is the last link to maintain a semblance of social life. Unfortunately, not everyone is lucky enough to have a stable and fast connection available, as can be the case with fiber.

Even if in the current context it is preferable to favor a fixed connection to avoid cluttering the mobile network, many French people have to deal with an anemic ADSL connection, or unstable (sometimes both), making teleworking a real headache. .

There is then no other possibility than to opt for an ultimate backup solution: share the 4G connection of your smartphone. Thanks to the increasingly generous mobile data envelopes offered by operators, those abandoned by broadband can, when necessary, enjoy a breath of digital oxygen by surfing from their PC with a connection offering a speed worthy of this name.

While advanced users are already familiar with the trick, newbies you may be a part of are not always familiar with it. Find out how to share your Android smartphone or iPhone connection with other devices in your home.

• Share mobile connection on Android

1. Go to Settings

Enter Android Settings and enter Network & Internet menu. Then tap Hotspot and tethering, then tap Wi-Fi hotspot.

2. Secure the access point

Activate connection sharing. By default, the mobile hotspot generated by your smartphone usually displays the model name of your device followed by several digits.
If this is not mandatory, it is possible to customize the name of your access point. To do this, press Access point name, enter the new name and confirm by pressing OK.

Then tap Access point password to display it. Write it down in the back of your head. It is this password that you will have to enter on your PC or your other devices to connect to the Wi-Fi access point generated by your smartphone.

Note that it is possible to customize this password. All you have to do is delete the old one, enter the new one and confirm your preferences by pressing OK.

If you wish, this password can be personalized. You will also need to secure your access point by assigning it a strong password to personalize it.

3. Connect to the Wi-Fi access point generated by your smartphone

From your computer, or any other mobile device capable of connecting to the Internet, go to the network settings to find a Wi-Fi access point.

You should see the name of your smartphone appear in the list of available hotspots. Log in as you normally would by entering the password given above on the smartphone.

• Share the mobile connection on an iPhone

1. Access iOS settings

Open iOS Settings and go to the Connection Sharing menu. Activate the Allow other users option to activate mobile tethering.

The default login password is displayed just below. You can, if you wish, personalize it by tapping on it.

2. Connect other devices to your iPhone

Open the network settings of the other devices you want to connect to and find your iPhone name, which is the name of the Wi-Fi hotspot chosen by default by iOS when tethering. Enter your password and validate to initiate the connection as you normally would.

If you want to connect another Apple device (Mac, iPod touch, iPad) that has the same iCloud account configured as your iPhone’s, you should not be prompted for a password.