 See that? That device is a router and it's giving internet to 10 to 15 other devices including my smart TV and Your smartphone can do the same thing and that's what I'll show you today Hello everyone, this is Ahmed Don of AhmedDon.com today I'll have another episode of the smartphone tips and tricks video and I'll talk about how to tether from your smartphone If this is your first time or repeat visit. Thank you for your support on this channel I'm always trying new and different ideas. If you appreciate variety, please come back for more if you only like smartphone tips videos There will be links in the description box below so today I'm going to show you how you can tether from your smartphone and This is a very simple process and I'm not going to go into Different options. I'll only talk about the wireless tethering and that's what I'll show you But there are other ways to tether which I'll just you know briefly go over it so what is tethering is that your phone just works like a router and it can give internet to other devices for example will the end of our video you'll see that this tablet is getting internet from this phone and This is very handy if you're traveling or if you'd like to share your internet connection with someone else and this internet connection actually is that internet connection from your Telephone service provider just make sure that you know they allow tethering and you're not breaking any rules or Laws because some providers or service providers may prohibit you from tethering your phone and share the internet connection so just to Be clear. You're not sharing your Wi-Fi connection You're actually sharing your mobile internet, which you usually get with your you know telephone service or smartphone Voice and data service. So if you exceed the limit there might be additional charges And also as I mentioned before just make sure that you know tethering is not prohibited under your terms and agreements I have had a few Service providers in the past and I never had an issue that you know They are prohibiting or it's not allowed to tether but definitely you're going to just check You know based on where you're located or who is your service provider? so To keep everything simple I'm going to show you just wireless tethering You're not connected to any USB or you're not connected to Anything else. So this is just the simple tethering and I'm going to be showing you on an Android phone I do not have an Apple phone So I have no idea how to do it on Apple But my guess would be that you know the steps are very similar if not 100% the same so you can try it But this is going to be based on my Android phone And if your Android phone looks a little bit different, that's okay Basically, you're just looking for the same settings, which I'm going to show you right now. So let's start from here so the first thing you're going to do you're going to go to your phone settings and This is kind of the whole button right here. So let me just bring this little closer and You're going to click on it and Here you're going to see a few options So you're looking for Network and internet mobile Wi-Fi and hotspot. So hotspot is what we are looking for. So basically When you tether it's going to be, you know Your phone is going to act like a hotspot and it's just giving you connection to other devices So now once you click on that you can see here that hotspot and tethering off And you want to turn this on. So let's click on here Now you can see here that there are different types of you know tethering USB tethering This is just like in your sharing your connection via USB. We're not going to go into more detail Bluetooth tethering We're not going to go into more detail and ethernet tethering. We're not going to go into more detail So what we're looking for is Wi-Fi hotspot So that means that you know Your phone is going to act as a router and it's going to share its Wi-Fi Which is coming from this phone service provider or it's your data plan and it's just sharing with other devices So the next step is going to be click on here and you can see that that Wi-Fi hotspot is off So we're just going to turn this on So just click on here So now we have the Wi-Fi hotspot on and you can see that there's kind of tiny icon right here Just let's bring this a little closer and you can see there's something right here So that means that Wi-Fi hotspot is on and this device is tethering right now or in other words This device is giving internet connection now and you have to just like you know Log in from your other device to catch the internet from this device now here you're going to see an option that You have hotspot password. So what is this? Just you know, you can choose your password so not everyone else can like you know get your internet from your phone and Here there's another option turn off hotspot automatically if no devices are connected and Here you can see that the different type of security settings. You can just go with the default I'm not going to go into detail more here. I'm going to just leave everything as is So what happened here now? I turned this on and this device can now give internet to other devices So now I have my Chromebook or tablet right here And I'm going to try to connect to the internet of this device from this device so in order to do that you're going to have to go to settings of the Tablet or the other device. So you're going to click on the Settings or internet for your other device. So I'll just click on the internet right here and Here I'm going to connect on internet So what it's doing is just you know taking internet from my Wi-Fi which was already connected But if you take a look here, then you can see that it also has the option of my Internet from my phone, which I just tethered So my pixel for a 5g is appearing here and it is just acting as a router So in order to connect to the phone what I need to do. I'm going to have to just click on pixel for a 5g So if you're using your phone, your phone's name is going to be appearing right under Wi-Fi Under network. So if you just click on here Then you're going to see that you know it's asking you to enter the password So if you just you know enter the password So I entered the password and here you can see an option that allow other users of this device to use this network Which you don't need so just click connect and You can see that the other device is connected right now and let's click on the internet It should give you an idea. So right now you can see that you know this one pixel for a 5g is the internet This device have right now Which is coming from this phone Right here right now this tablet is connected using the phone's internet, which we just you know tethered Via Wi-Fi hotspot setting. So this is what this internet is showing So if you want to Do a quick Speed test So I'm just going to do a quick speed test. So we have the speed test website and if I click on here So it's connecting but here you can see that it has the name of the Internet I'm using for this device, which it says freedom mobile and That's actually name of my service provider, which I have on my phone So right now it's using internet from my service provider Which is my cell phones? Network and that's the freedom mobile. So that's how you can use your phone or smartphone or mobile phone to tether and Give Wi-Fi to other devices using Wi-Fi hotspot feature, which I just showed you So thank you for watching this video. There will be more videos coming up. So I'll see you shortly. Thank you