Mobile Simcard in Desktop/Laptop

[Fallingup]

Has anyone experience in using the simcard from their phone to get Internet on their laptop or desktop? I know you can get 4G dongles that fit in the usb port but rather than spending a lot on basically another simcard I wondered if it's possible to use the one in my phone. I guess these things use a lot more data than in the phone but I have an unlimited data contract. I see that you can get things that you put your simcard into which then plugs into a usb port in the laptop /desktop. Do they work and any pitfalls? Cheers.

[Mr E]

Put the phone in WiFi sharing (essentially access point mode) and connect the PC to the phone WiFi.

You could put the sim in a dongle or similar, but why bother?

[Ham_and_Jam]

I regularly use my iPhone as a hotspot (wifi sharing) on my laptop.

Works very well, obviously depending on the signal at the time.

[Fallingup]

Mr E said:

Put the phone in WiFi sharing (essentially access point mode) and connect the PC to the phone WiFi.

You could put the sim in a dongle or similar, but why bother?

I tried that but all it does is share the wifi signal from the house router which is very poor. Am I doing it wrong?

[Mr E]

Fallingup said:

I tried that but all it does is share the wifi signal from the house router which is very poor. Am I doing it wrong?

I suspect you’re doing it wrong.

iOS; https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204023
Android; https://support.google.com/android/answer/9059108?...

[Fallingup]

I'll give that a try. Thank you.

[Fallingup]

It works! Thanks everyone for your help. Took a bit of fannying about to find the hotspot password and was confused by the network name being hidden but got there. Cheers.

[captain_cynic]

It's been a very long time since I've seen a laptop that has a mobile transmitter in it.

Also on Android you can use USB tethering that saves faffing about with WiFi.

You have to select it on the phone in the options but yes.

Edited by captain_cynic on Wednesday 9th August 12:27

[Fallingup]

captain_cynic said:

It's been a very long time since I've seen a laptop that has a mobile transmitter in it.

Also on Android you can use USB tethering that saves faffing about with WiFi.

Interesting. You mean I can just connect the phone to a usb port on the windows machine to share the data signal?

[Mr E]

Fallingup said:

Interesting. You mean I can just connect the phone to a usb port on the windows machine to share the data signal?

Yes

[dhutch]

Fallingup said:

It works! Thanks everyone for your help.

Happy days.

[Fallingup]

Overcome. Ecstatic. There's no stopping me now! Thanks all.

Edited by Fallingup on Thursday 10th August 09:02