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Welcome! In front of me is a Motorola Moto G51 and today I'll show you how you
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can enable and set up your portable hotspot. Now to get started you'll want
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to pull down your notification panel and look for the hotspot settings, which for
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me it's right here. Now this is the default location of all the toggles, so if you haven't changed your toggle location it should be in the same place
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Once you locate it, the first time around if you're doing this, which assuming
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you're watching this video probably are, you do want to hold the toggle. This will
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quickly take you to the settings where you can customize it. So in here tap on
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Wi-Fi hotspot and I recommend you to start off with the hotspot password
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which as you can see by default is some randomly generated one. We can remove this
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one and set our own. Now the new password needs to have at least eight characters in length, so it can be letters, numbers, it doesn't really matter
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There we go and now we can tap on OK. Now additionally we have options also for
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changing the hotspot name right over here, so by tapping on it you can change
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how the Wi-Fi that the hotspot will create will be named. Default wise it's
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always the name of the device, so for me it's for this device obviously it's
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Moto G51. You can shorten it if you want to as an example or you can
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completely change it to something entirely different, it's up to you what you want to call it. And we have a couple additional options under Advanced right
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here. So going quickly into those, hide my device, we'll just hide the hotspot and I
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don't recommend doing it. It will require you to go into the Wi-Fi list, as an
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example I'm gonna shut on my device. So if we go into Wi-Fi, we enable it. By
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scrolling down you have the option Add Network and once you tap on it you need
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to first add the network name, which that would be the name right here, and then
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also the password for it. You cannot find it in the list of like where you would
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normally see them, so you go back, normally you see your hotspot right here
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but it will be completely removed with this option from the list, so you will
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need to add it manually. That's why I don't recommend doing it. Now below that
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we have the AP band, so we have a choice between 2.4 and 5 GHz. Now I can
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only choose one or the other, there is no option to have both. So if you're not
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sure what this is, just a brief explanation, 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi will be
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used by basically every device, every smart device that has Wi-Fi connectivity
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and 5 GHz is an improved version of it, it goes faster and is more stable, but not
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every device will support it. Newer devices will, older devices might not. So
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if you're unaware what your device supports, the easiest way to figure it
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out is to enable the 5 GHz, look for the Wi-Fi, if your device just doesn't
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see it, that means that it doesn't support it. And in that case you can just go back
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here, drop it back to 2.4 and it should just work fine. And from here we have
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manage devices, so this will allow you to manage all the devices that are
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connected to your hotspot, you can boot them out of your hotspot if you don't want them, someone managed to guess your password you can just completely remove
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them from it. And we have timeout setting, this is probably one of the more useful
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settings in here as well. This determines how long the hotspot will run while not
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being used. Now the reason why I consider this to be important is because I
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personally forget to turn off my hotspot when I'm using it, and hotspot does
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consume more of your battery, and in addition to that some of the hotspots, I
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don't know if that's the case right here, do turn off Wi-Fi to spread the signal
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through the same antennas that you'd normally use for Wi-Fi, so you'd only be
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locked into your mobile network when hotspot is running. And when someone
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isn't using it for provided amount of time, a hotspot will automatically turn
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off and everything will go back to functioning normally. So as an example
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I'm gonna stick with the 10 minutes and let's enable it. So Wi-Fi right now
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is turned off, so on here it does use Wi-Fi to broadcast the hotspot
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And because of that, as you see, once you enable your hotspot it uses mobile
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network, so not only the people that connect to your hotspot will use your mobile network, but you will as well even though, for instance, you're at home and
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you have access to your Wi-Fi network, but because it's connecting or it's
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distributing the hotspot to your Wi-Fi antennas, it needs those for hotspot
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instead of your Wi-Fi. But like I mentioned, after it turns off, it
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automatically re-enables Wi-Fi. So anyway, as you see, that is basically how you'd
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set it up and enable or disable it. And if you found this very helpful, don't forget
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