 Today we're going to be looking at turning your Android device into basically a Wi-Fi device for your desktop or laptop. So on my screen here on the left I have my desktop computer running Debian Linux and on the right you're looking at an Android device I have that's hooked to Wi-Fi although it was hooked to cellular this should work as well. What we're going to do here if you look on the left on my desktop you can see I have a physical ethernet port that's my only network card other than my virtual loop back which everyone has but the only actual thing I have to connect to my network in the internet is my ethernet port EMP12S0 in this case. So on the Android device I'm hooked through USB now that's how we're displaying this screen here. I am going to go to settings and network and then on a network hotspot tethering and you can see there's an option for USB tethering. Share your phone's internet connection via USB. Now when I click this we're going to lose the screen sharing from my Android device because I'm doing that through the USB but I'm going to click that and now automatically my phone is going to see or my desktop is going to see my phone as a USB network device. If I have config to see my network devices again you can see I have a third one USB 0 and it has an IP address and now if I was to disable this ethernet port here I now will be able to use the Wi-Fi or cellular data from my Android device as if it was a network device on my desktop. This is great if you're in a pinch where for some reason you don't have Wi-Fi and you want to connect cellular you can do this right through USB. Also I've talked to people recently who have had issues where their network drivers have required them to download drivers so their network devices have required them to download network drivers which is kind of hard to do if your network device is not working. Well now hopefully that issue was on a Windows machine but I have talked to people who have had that same issue on Linux machines but this would be one option. You should be able to just plug it in. I would assume this would work the same way on a Windows desktop that you just plug it in, click the USB Ethernet or USB tethering in your Android device and it should show up as a network device at which point you can then get done what you need to get done if that may be downloading your Ethernet drivers or Wi-Fi drivers whatever drivers or other things you need that you may have not been able to access before. Anyway thanks for watching filmsbychrist.com that's Chris of the K there's a link in the description also it wants to mention so yeah so it's connected through USB. If I unplug it so I just unplugged my USB device my phone from USB you can see it no longer shows up and it automatically turns off that tethering so even if I plug the USB back in I'd have to go in and check that box again so you don't have to worry about it you know accidentally sharing your network or cellular with any device to plug into it that would be bad so once it's unplugged it automatically shuts it off all you have to do is go back into settings and check it again. Thanks for watching and I hope that you have a great day.