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Hi. I am trying to connect my phone to my laptop as a hotspot, so that my laptop will be able to access the internet using cellular. I need it to be cellular because I am testing something out. I turn off wifi on my phone (and have cellular on), I turn off wifi on my laptop, but I don't know how to connect my phone to my laptop.
When I have wifi on on my iphone 8 and I try to connect it to my laptop, then it does show up as an option on my laptop in the Wifi tab, but like I said I don't want my laptop using wifi, I want it using cellular. Is there a way to do this?
From, Liam
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Hi Liam. I'm Greg, an Independent Advisor, Volunteer Moderator and 10 year Windows MVP here to help you.
In order to connect to cellular the device needs a sim card, not a hotspot which is always Wifi whether it's provided by a smart phone or the PC.
Very few PC's have cellular capability, but if yours does then you'd need to insert a SIM card for a wireless plan.
I hope it helps.
