How to tether your phone with your PC via WiFi hotspot for internet access and sharing

Tethering is a way of connecting one device to another, maybe for internet connection sharing or for other synchronizing purposes.

Here we are going to be dealing with tethering for internet connection sharing purpose.

With the advance in modern mobile technology, it is even becoming easier by the day to share a phone’s internet connection with PC through tethering.

Tethering of phone to PC for internet connection sharing can be a very simple step to you, but for others it might not be that simple for them as you thought.

Somebody that owns a Samsung Galaxy S3 device recently asked me “What is the meaning of tethering?” That he has been hearing the word more often of late but don’t really know what it means but that he has a thought that it is related to internet connection.

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In other words, if you know how to tether your phone with your PC and felt it is easy, don’t you ever think that all folks out there also know how to go about it.

Without further ado, let’s go straight into the business of the day which is on how to tether your phone with your PC via WiFi hotstpot for internet connection sharing.

In order to achieve that, your phone must have a WiFi hotspot feature and not just WiFi and the PC you will be using for this purpose must have a WiFi (Wireless) feature. Good a thing that these days most PCs now come with the wireless feature.

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Now for you to tether your phone with your PC via the WiFi hotspot feature on your phone, follow the steps below;

= => Locate the WiFi hotspot feature on your phone and enable or turn it on… this feature is mostly located on the Wireless & Network, Settings section of your phone.

= => Then turn on the WiFi wireless feature on your PC by pressing the designated button.

= => Come down to the network icon situated at the task bar of your PC desktop and click on it to open and see available networks (wireless)

= => When you have done that, you will then see the available Wireless Network Connection…In this case which is the network from your phone, so click on the network then click the connect tab that shows up and wait for few seconds for the connection to be established.

After which the network should be established and your network will then indicate connected

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Hurray! You have just succeeded in connecting your phone via WiFi hotspot with your PC through WiFi tethering.

It is important to note here that this is just one of the wireless ways of tethering your phone with your PC, and we have other form of wireless tethering like the Bluetooth tethering and we also have the wired USB chord phone-PC tethering.

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