Anyone got this working (connecting to the internet from a laptop thru a wifi hotspot on your smart phone)?
Web/facebook etc work perfectly on the phones themselves.
It certainly used to work, but now with several permutations of 2 laptop and 3 phones, I can't get it working.
SMART claim they're not blocking anything, it must be my configuration, but they've previously come up with implausible suggestions that haven't actually worked (eg must upgrade to LTE simcard), so I've lost trust they can help.
SMART laptop tethering
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i can't understand your situation well enough to know how to assist. I can say I use my phone (SMART sim) as a hotspot wifi connection for my laptop/ipad frequently. no problem.
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Do it regularly without issues.
Some phones have settings to limit the number of connections, maybe check that if you haven't already.
Some phones have settings to limit the number of connections, maybe check that if you haven't already.
OK thanks, that's encouraging to hear.
Actually I've just got the hotspot working from phone to phone, ie one phone connects through the other's hotspot, so it must be something on the laptops.
Actually I've just got the hotspot working from phone to phone, ie one phone connects through the other's hotspot, so it must be something on the laptops.
Ha, and now it works from the laptops too after trying exactly the same thing all weekend till now, and I've changed nothing.
Getting a lot of this frustrating, quantum-like, must-have-been-something-you-were-doing-wrong flakiness, lately.
Anyway thanks for the replies.
Getting a lot of this frustrating, quantum-like, must-have-been-something-you-were-doing-wrong flakiness, lately.
Anyway thanks for the replies.
I'm always impressed by the lengths some people will go to to connect to 440.If you're using one SIM to connect three phones and two laptops, on top of the original phone, and everyone is using data, it's going to be going pretty slowly for you.
Sometimes you have to specify the ANP.
Sometimes there's a standard limit on the amount of data allowed to use before you have give green light again.
Sometimes there's a standard limit on the amount of data allowed to use before you have give green light again.
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Could a Huawei E5577C not help?
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Nope.
Tethering thru an old korean LG G3 F406 (LTE), using Smart Power+ plan, just 10k outside PP, doesn't work after all, though internet on the phone itself is fine.
I'll test the same back in PP later, and the same phone on a different SIM/plan etc.
tethering works fine on another phone (3G HSPA/HSPA+) on a SmartXchange plan, although it's pretty flaky outside the city.
Tethering thru an old korean LG G3 F406 (LTE), using Smart Power+ plan, just 10k outside PP, doesn't work after all, though internet on the phone itself is fine.
I'll test the same back in PP later, and the same phone on a different SIM/plan etc.
tethering works fine on another phone (3G HSPA/HSPA+) on a SmartXchange plan, although it's pretty flaky outside the city.
OK sorry for the noise, it's the phone.
I have 2 korean G3's, one of them must have something preventing tethering since all sims of various tarrifs fail on this phone but work on others - wifi connects, but no data gets through.
How do I cleanse these things of all the carrier crapware - they're still decent, hardy (and cheap!) phones other than that?
I have 2 korean G3's, one of them must have something preventing tethering since all sims of various tarrifs fail on this phone but work on others - wifi connects, but no data gets through.
How do I cleanse these things of all the carrier crapware - they're still decent, hardy (and cheap!) phones other than that?
Go to settings / tethering / apn names / edit access point.
If it has anything in the APN Type field, remove it and save. (if it says default, open it, delete the word, and save the apn)
If that doesn't work, not sure what else besides a factory reset.
If it has anything in the APN Type field, remove it and save. (if it says default, open it, delete the word, and save the apn)
If that doesn't work, not sure what else besides a factory reset.
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