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My hotspot is not working on my laptop

Anonymous
2023-05-07T09:49:09+00:00

Up until last night my laptop was working on my mobile hotspot but today morning suddenly it's not loading anything. It says connected and has internet access but nothing is loading. However my friend's hotspot is working perfectly on my laptop.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-07-12T15:58:24+00:00

    Up until last night my laptop was working on my mobile hotspot but today morning suddenly it's not loading anything. It says connected and has internet access but nothing is loading. However my friend's hotspot is working perfectly on my laptop.

    I have been getting this problem. I suspect the mobile phone rather than the laptop as it works consistently from a different phone. My phone has unlimited data so it's important to getting working on the right phone.

    Sometimes the hotspot on my Samsung mobile doesn't show on the WiFi list without a restart and sometimes if tries to connect and then errors. It had been working fine, then it worked with a restart and over the last week it stopped working completely.

    I just downgraded the hotspot Band on the phone from "5GHz preferred" to 2.4GHz and it's all working again.

    I am using a Samsung A52 with Android 14 and as of today Ui 6.1 (The latest software update is giving me a consistent 5G data network but I don't think that is relevant solving the problem)

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-01-31T04:04:03+00:00

    There needs to be more on this thread.. and more plausible answers instead of the most basic common sense answers there is. If this is “helpful” than hell, let me join as an IT because I could offer a lot more information. Regardless, as spectrum is down right now and I’m trying to use my hotspot, and it worked at first for the first hour, than stopped loading literally anything on any website, whilst still claiming “connected, secured” I went through my properties on my WiFi card, changed the frequency from 5ghz to 2.4, messing with netsh (or whatever it is in the cmd terminal) nothing, literally nothing seems to work. Even the basic steps you’d do at first, that you listed for this person. Even going through my phones hotspot settings, resetting my network stuff on my phone, and still not working. I just simply don’t understand why it isn’t. Unless it’s something within windows that just disallows hotspots during the most urgent times of need. In which, it seems that’s the case. As it’ll connect, get all the details AND PROPER IP from my hotspot, it just won’t load jack for ****. Especially after working flawlessly till near the end of my episode I was watching where it began to buffer, than never load again. Nor load any webpage, any photo, and not connect to any type of services that run in the background. I can provide more details, and even go into further detail about everything. But this should simply be, more than enough for you guys to understand me, and formulate some type of resolution. As, macOS, and Linux literally doesn’t have an issue with these. (As far as I have tested)

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-07T11:03:45+00:00

    Hello! My name is Mostafa, and I will try my best to assist you with this so that you find a satisfactory solution.

    I’m sorry that you are experiencing this issue.

    Go to Settings > Network & Internet > Network reset on your laptop, and select Reset now. This will reset your network settings, including any saved Wi-Fi networks and passwords.

    Go to Device Manager on your laptop, locate your network adapter, right-click on it, and select Update driver.

    Restart both your laptop and mobile device, and ensure your mobile hotspot works by connecting another device to your mobile hotspot.

    Check the below link to try some solutions.

    https://windowsreport.com/computer-wont-connect...

    I hope the above steps helped you. In case of additional questions, reach out back to me, and I will be happy to help and try my best to resolve your issue. Thank you.

    Best,

    Mostafa


    Disclaimer - This is a non-Microsoft website. The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised on the site before downloading and installing it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-03-07T01:05:52+00:00

    How do I update anything if I can't connect to the internet?

    Greg

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-06-12T09:09:04+00:00

    Up until last night my laptop was working on my mobile hotspot but today morning suddenly it's not loading anything. It says connected and has internet access but nothing is loading. However my friend's hotspot is working perfectly on my laptop.

    I currently have issues while connecting to any network on laptop 😞..How do I get that fixed??

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