I would be interested in hearing about this as well. I to only have Internet 
through my hotspot. I wish I could find a company that I could use also.


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> On Mar 20, 2017, at 6:39 PM, Ioana Gandrabur <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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 <[email protected]> 
>> 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
>> 
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