Re: hotspot/tethering prerequisites

On 5/21/24 10:36, Frank Slootweg wrote:

bad sector <forgetski@_invalid.net> wrote:

I screwed up something and my hotspot wouldn't give my laptop internet
anymore. What other preconditions govern besides the wifi ssid and
password? I did a reset and that fixed the problem but didn't tell me
what it was.

    You didn't give a lot of details and these kind of settings are nearly
always brand/model dependent, but having said that...
    I had a similar problem when I apparently had set a mobile data limit
for the mobile hotspot. So not just the *general* mobile data limit, but
a *specific* one for (only) the mobile hotspot.
    For my Samsung Galaxy A51 Android 13 phone:
 Settings -> Connections -> Mobile Hotspot and Thethering -> Mobile
Hotspot -> (displays current mobile hotspot) -> Configure -> Advanced ->
Set mobile data limit

Sorry, it's a Samsung zflip5 on Telus service. Now that it's in defaults there seems to be no data limit, and the only intervention I remember ever having made before was to set it to unlimited though I don't remember how a limit ever got in there to be reset to unlimited. On this phone tapping "Connected device" on the "Mobile Hotspot" page is what invokes the "Manage Mobile Hotspot" page which has a "Set data limit" button. I went through these several times to no avail (and 'connected device' is hardly the label for an advanced settings link).