ATT and Galaxy Hot Spot issue

opnspaces wrote:
I had a similar issue on Verizon a few months ago. If I remember correctly it turned out that I had disabled WiFi on the phone. Maybe check to make sure that WiFi and Bluetooth are both enabled.

here is how our galaxy devices work:


Case 1 wifi OFF:
if you turn on mobil hotspot the connection is through your carrier and you are sharing data useage etc. with everyone connected.

Case 2: wifi on:
here is where you can run into an issue. What happens is you can't have a hotspot based on your carrier and wifi connection at the same time. The phone can't do that, So what happens is that you are using "wifi sharing" That is it looks like a hotspot but everyone is sharing YOUR wifi connection w/o any isolation. A message will come up when you enable hotspot that says "wifi connection being shared"

Now the issue that may come up is when you have wifi ON and try to go to mobile hotspot it gives an error message. Something like needing to enable wifi sharing. That is so you know your sharing a wifi connection NOT mobile connection.

when wifi is off and I select hotspot a message comes up in short
you are running a mobile hotspot and data useage applies. you will switch to wifi sharing when wifi network becomes available.

Not if you haven't enabled wifi sharing when you connect to wifi and try to enable hotspot it will come up with a message saying you need to enable wifi sharing.