Sharing Your Mobile Internet With Other Devices - Huawei P9 Plus User Manual

Sharing your mobile Internet with other devices

You can share your phone's mobile Internet with other devices (such as phones, tablets or
computers). The following Internet sharing methods can be used:
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Portable Wi-Fi hotspot: Create a portable Wi-Fi hotspot to share your mobile Internet with
other devices.
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Bluetooth tethering: Share your mobile Internet with other devices using Bluetooth.
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USB tethering: Use a USB cable to share your mobile Internet with a computer.
Using a portable Wi-Fi hotspot to share your mobile Internet
Set up a portable Wi-Fi hotspot to share your phone's mobile Internet with other devices.
Compared with Bluetooth tethering, the portable Wi-Fi hotspot feature offers quicker, longer-
range connections, but power consumption is higher.
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Your device can't access the Internet using Wi-Fi when your Portable Wi-Fi hotspot is
switched on.
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To enable mobile data, see
1
Open Settings.
2
Touch More > Tethering & portable hotspot.
3
Touch Portable Wi-Fi hotspot and then turn on the Wi-Fi hotspot switch.
After enabling your personal Wi-Fi hotspot, your phone will display the
4
Touch Configure Wi-Fi hotspot to view or modify the hotspot name, security settings and
password, and then touch Save.
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Change the hotspot name: The Network SSID is the hotspot's name. By default, this is the
name of your phone model. You can manually change the name to something that is easier
to remember.
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Change the hotspot security settings: Touch Encryption type to configure the hotspot
security settings. Your phone uses WPA2 PSK encryption by default. Other devices will
Connecting to the Internet using mobile
Accessing the Internet
data.
icon in the status bar.
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