Hi, Personal hotspot allows you to share the internet of the phone to other devices. Your phone becomes like a wifi provider. There are also devices that connect to cellular networks and create a wifi network for your devices. With some companies you have to call them to enable personal hotspot and some have extra charges.
Hope this helps a bit. Ioana Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 20, 2017, at 4:50 PM, Terri Stimmel <icecreamlove...@outlook.com> > wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > I have an older gentleman friend, who has an iPhone 5S, I believe. > Technology tends to make him a bit nervous. But he tries hard to > understand things. > > > He wants to get a wireless hot-spot for his home, because he doesn't > have internet from 1 of the companies that are offered out here. > > > I want to help him out, and I can usually answer a lot of his questions. > But this is 1 I don't really understand myself. > > > How does a hot-spot work? > > Don't you already have to have internet, in order to be able to use a > wireless hot-spot? > > I know that on our phones, there is an option to turn wireless hot-spot > on. But I thought that you could use your phone like this, if you were > in public, and you wanted to connect to the WIFI that was there, > wherever you were. > > Is this not the case? > > > He told me he bought a hot-spot from Walmart a few days ago, but that he > was going to return it. When I asked him why, he said that it didn't > offer good enough range. I don't know enough, or much at all honestly, > on this subject, in order to help him. > > His phone is the only thing he has at the moment, for internet. His data > is limited, and this he can't change. But that's a whole other story. > > > Any help with this, will really be much appreciated! I want to be able > to help my friend out, as much as I can. > > > Thank you, > > > Terri > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
