Set up Android 9 hotspot - how to share the WLAN

If you are on the road, you may not have a known WLAN network nearby to connect to your laptop. However, if you have access to your mobile Internet with your smartphone, you can set up a hotspot. Then you can connect to the laptop.

How to set up a hotspot on your Android 9 device

If you want to access the Internet with your laptop, you need a known WLAN network in your vicinity. However, if no network is available at the moment, there is another way to connect to the Internet. If you can access your mobile Internet with your Android smartphone, then you can set up a hotspot with the device. If you then connect to the hotspot with your laptop, you can go online as usual. However, this will consume the data volume of your smartphone.

1. Go to the settings and click on "More" to see other possible options.
2. Click here on the option "Tethering & mobile Hotspot".
3. Then select "WLAN hotspot" set up.
4. Select "WPA2 PSK" for security and enter a password in the field provided. Make sure that this consists of letters, numbers and characters, so that it can not be guessed.
5. Now you still need to activate the option "Mobile WLAN hotspot".
6. To connect to the hotspot, you only need to search for WLAN networks with your laptop and then select your smartphone.