The reason I say that is because some devices can tell the difference. If you noticed, however, I said that a mobile hotspot is the 'near-equivalent' of a traditional WiFi hotspot.

No matter what the exact term, the concept is the same - it turns your mobile device into the near-equivalent of a traditional WiFi hotspot - the kind you would find at your friend's house or a local Starbucks or McDonald's. In the Android world, the term 'Mobile Hotspot' is typically used - and on some other Android devices, it's generically referred to as a 'Wi-Fi Hotspot' or simply 'tethering'. For example, on iPhones and iPads, Apple uses the term 'Personal Hotspot'. The manufacturers of smartphones and tablets use a variety of terms for the WiFi hotspot provided by a device's cellular-data connection. If it currently says it's off and you wish to turn it on, simply double-click it and BOOM - your Raspberry will automatically reboot and instantly become a WiFi-to-WiFi router! If you wish to turn the router off and bring your Raspberry back to its completely normal WiFi state, same thing - just flip the toggle switch!

It does this by taking an existing WiFi hotspot from a mobile or non-mobile device that already has an internet connection and makes it available from a brand-new WiFi Access Point on your Raspberry!īy 'toggle switch', I'm referring to a simple icon on your desktop that always reveals the on/off status of the WiFi-to-WiFi router. My script instantly converts your Raspberry into a different kind of router - a WiFi-to-WiFi router. In that sense, a wireless router is really an Ethernet-to-WiFi router.

In other words, a so-called wireless router is only half wireless! What it really does is take a wired Ethernet connection to the internet and 'converts' it into a WiFi hotspot. The typical 'wireless router' is really a wired-to-wireless router. That's a lot of terms, so let me explain each one:

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