Press Windows+I to open the Settings window and then click Network & Internet. I am using the beta because it is not quite ready for public release yet, but if you are reading this article a couple of months from now, you will have the public update. You also need the summer 2017 update for Windows 10. This means that the Wi-Fi is not being used for anything, so it can become a wireless access point. Your computer needs to have a wired internet connection, such as an Ethernet cable to a LAN socket on a switch or router. If there is no Wi-Fi in the area, or perhaps one you cannot connect to for some reason, but the computer has an internet connection, you can create your own Wi-Fi hotspot and then connect your phone, tablet or other computers to it. The reverse situation, and the one we will look at here, is less common, but some people do need it occasionally. A phone has two ways to connect to the internet and there is Wi-Fi and a mobile data connection like 3G or 4G.īy turning the phone into a Wi-Fi hotspot, your computer’s network traffic is routed through the phone’s 3G/4G data connection. The solution is to turn your phone into a wireless hotspot and to connect the laptop to that. That means there is no internet access and that can severely limit what you can do.
No Wi-Fi?įor many people the problem is that there is no Wi-Fi for their computer, such as when they are travelling with a laptop. Don’t you hate it when there isn’t a Wi-Fi network for your phone or tablet? That situation is easily remedied using Windows 10’s new capability to create a Wi-Fi hotspot.
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