User's Guide

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2. Touch
Portable Wi-Fi hotspot
and place a check mark in the adjacent field to activate
the service.
 Using hotspot drains your phone’s battery at a much faster rate than when using any
other feature combination.
Note:
The best way to keep using the phone as a hotspot is to have it connected to a power
supply.
Important:
Write down the passkey (password) for this communication (shown onscreen).
Connect to Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot
1. Enable Wi-Fi (wireless) functionality on your target device (laptop, media device, etc.).
2. Scan for Wi-Fi networks from the device and select your phone hotspot from the network
list.
 The name for your phone hotspot can be changed by touching
Home
> >
Portable Wi-Fi hotspot
>
Network SSID
.
3. Select this device and follow your onscreen instructions to enter the passkey (provided
on the Portable Wi-Fi hotspot page).
4. Launch your Web browser to confirm you have an Internet connection.
Configure Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot
1. Touch
Home
>
Menu
>
System settings
>
More…
>
Tethering & portable
hotspot
>
Portable Wi-Fi hotspot settings
.
2. Set the following options:

Network SSID:
Sets your network name.

SSID broadcast:
Selects the check box to broadcast the SSID.

Security:
Sets the security level.

Password:
Sets a password if necessary.

Maximum Wi-Fi clients:
Sets the maximum Wi-Fi clients that can connect to your
phone.

Auto off:
Sets the length of time to elapse when your hotspot feature is disabled if
there is no device connected.

Channel:
Selects the channel you want to use.