How to use your old mobile as a WiFi router

This old laptop that many of us keep practically forgotten at the bottom of a drawer because an emergency telephone can also be used to convert it to another type of device and get us out of trouble, or save money by not having to buy another product. For example, we can turn our old mobile into a security camera or a Dash Cam for the car, or a WIFI router as we will see in this article.

We cannot always contract fiber or ADSL at home. Cabling does not reach everyone, and/or sometimes one only wishes to rent internet for a very short time, so to avoid stays and installations, an alternative is to use a mobile internet tariff to provide internet to all home, and if we don’t have 4G wifi router the MiFi 4G we can resort to our old mobile.

Create a Wi-Fi hotspot on your old Android

Since Android 2.3 we can create one WiFi area share the data connection of our device with the rest of the devices in the house through a Wi-Fi connection issued by our old mobile.

To do this, in addition to inserting the SIM card with the data rate, we must activate the function which for most Android versions and customization layers has been called WiFi area and in newer versions like share internet.

In most devices and versions, the steps to follow to convert our old mobile into a WiFi router are as follows:

1. Enter a Settings > Wireless Connections the Settings > Networks and Internet.
2. Click on the heading Connection sharing and Wi-Fi zone the Sharing an Internet and Wi-Fi hotspot, among other variations. On some mobiles, you will have to click on “More” to see this option.
3. Turn the knob “Wi-Fi area the Wi-Fi hotspot the share internet.
4. there you can Configure Wi-Fi zone from this same screen or by pressing the option of this name. There you will need to add a name, nail the password and, on some devices, choose the access point band.

The configuration of the last point is very important, because we must add a password to protect the connection and thus prevent anyone from connecting to our Wi-Fi connection for our data rate. Once the configuration is complete, the rest of the devices in your home, such as mobile phones, tablets, laptops and televisions, will be able to connect to the Wi-Fi signal emitted by your old mobile.

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