(The Mobile data needs to be turned on on the device, obviously) All you have to do is, Click on the Bluetooth Icon on your Laptop and connect to the Network of the paired Android device. Once you have enabled the option, it remains active. There is one point in favour of Bluetooth Tethering, which is, you don’t need to Enable it everytime you want to Connect your laptop and use Internet. Only one device can be connected to the PC via Bluetooth Tethering. Mostly all the Bluetooth enabled devices are said to have a good 10 Meter range, which is quite sufficient for a normal use unless you keep your phone in your neighbour’s house. Which means even if it isn t as fast as Wi-Fi Hotspot, you will still get the maximum theoratical speed of 4G network.Īpart from the speed. Bluetooth 3.0 and Bluetooth 4.0 are said to have a similar device to device transfer speed of 25Mbps. Internet via Bluetooth tethering is fast, but not as fast as compaired to the Wi-Fi Hotspot. Only paired devices can use the Internet which makes this option secure to use.

To connect it to a Laptop, you need to Turn on Bluetooth and Pair the device, which you need to do only once.

Bluetooth Internet Tetheringīluetooth Internet Tethering option is also available in mostly all the Android devices that are available in the Market. In most Mobile phones, you need to Enable the Wi-Fi hostspot if no device is connected to it. More than one devices can be connected to the Wi-Fi hotspot at once, the maximum limit however depends from device to device. But in real world, the speed may vary.Īpart from the Speed, Wi-Fi covers a good range, you can keep your phone charged in one room and use it’s Internet on your Laptop in the other room.īut it’s drains the battery faster, because your phone is doing a lot of things at once, i.e, sending and recieving Internet packets from the Cellular Network and then sending and recieving the Internet packets to the device. If it’s 3G, the maximum theoratical speed is 7.2Mbps and if it’s 4G, then the maximum theoratical speed is 22Mbps. Almost every phone’s Wi-Fi has a capability of 54Mbps connection.īut the Internet speed we will get will depend on what type of Mobile Connection you are using. Once the Android phone is connected to the PC, you get a reliable Internet connect which is fast too. You can enable it with one tap, you can create a password to secure the connection and allow the only devices that will have the password.

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