How To Set A Password For Your WiFi Hotspot

After a lot of requests from fans on how to use a password for their WiFi Hotspot, I have decided to come up with a well explained and easy steps to take to successfully lock your WiFi Hotspot with any password of your choice.

What is WiFi Hotspot?

According to Wikipedia, A hotspot is a physical location where people may obtain Internet access, typically using Wi-Fi technology, via a wireless local area network (WLAN) using a router connected to an internet service provider.

In other words, a hotspot is where you can connect your Wifi network to enable you to browse the internet.

I remember a day while I was still teaching in a secondary school. In the evening, I would wait behind to do one or two things before I go home. There was now this day I was trying to connect to the internet, fortunately for me, I found a WiFi Hotspot. Luckily enough, the Wifi Hotspot was not set to password. I downloaded all files on my wishlist and watched youtube videos until it was no more going through.

It was the next day that my proprietor had the complain that all his whole data was used up. "The network providers are wicked!" He said. In his mind, the network provider scraped off the data. But I know in my mind that I was responsible for it.

"Next time, he would set a password for his WiFi Hotspot" I mocked.

Setting a password for the WiFi Hotspot is very essential, especially for those who connect their phone data with another device (e.g. PC). The steps are very easy, but not everybody knows this. And that is why I'm sharing you the steps with the picture for illustration.

Step 1 >>> Go to settings, on your android device

Step 2 >>> Tap "more" as seen in the image below:

Step 3 >>> Click on "Wi-fi Hotspot"

Step 4 >>> Select "Tethering & portable hotspot"

Step 5 >>> Enter the name you want your hotspot name to appear as, and tap the security tab to select "WPA2 PSK"

Step 6 >>> Enter your password. You can set the number of the maximum user to 1 if you don't want your WiFi Hotspot to be shared with more than 1 user. Then click on "save"

 In a single view, you can set a password for your password with this image below:

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