Smartphones entered our lives not so long ago, but during this time they managed to literally take over it. Unfortunately, some features of smart gadgets can only be unlocked if you have a high-speed Internet connection. And mobile operators are in no hurry to increase stable and high-quality coverage of the global web, and traffic prices can be steep. Therefore, the most reliable way to connect your smartphone to the Internet is through a personal computer.

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Technologically, smartphones have already caught up with computers and laptops in their performance. The only difference remains the operating system platform, as well as the presence of an active Internet connection. Wi-Fi is not always available, and mobile operators cannot guarantee high-quality communications and access to the global network everywhere. But it is necessary to solve questions and problems that have arisen on a mobile device, including such basic tasks as:

• download games, applications or documents;
• find the necessary information;
• update the operating system and applications to ensure they work correctly;
• use the device as a multimedia device: to watch movies, photos, presentations.

How to connect an Android smartphone to the Internet

Android devices are the most common. They attract with their low cost and good performance, and their functionality is developed in all areas necessary for the user. Creating a local network using a USB cable using standard tools is also included in the system's capabilities. To distribute Internet traffic, you only need a gadget, a cord and a computer with an active Internet connection.

Setting up a connection on a smartphone

First, you need to adjust some settings on your Android device. This is necessary to create the correct connection not only for the local network, but also for the Internet channel. You need to do the following:

1. Open the smartphone settings, scroll down the list and in the “System” column click “For Developers”.

   Find and select “For Developers” in your smartphone settings

2. In the “Debugging” column, check the “USB Debugging” box.

   Check the box next to “USB Debugging”

3. We return to the main settings. In the “Wireless Networks” column, go to the “Advanced” item; depending on the system, it may be called “More...”. The item will be the lowest in the list, immediately followed by the “Device” column.

   Select the “Advanced” item in the main settings of the smartphone

4. In the “USB Internet” line, put a tick. After this, you can close the settings and connect the phone to the computer.

   Check the box “USB Internet”

This completes the preparatory work with the smartphone. Let's move on to the procedure on the computer.

Setting up a connection on a computer

So, a local network has been created between the smartphone and the computer. All that remains is to distribute the Internet within this network. To do this you need to take the following steps:

1. Press the key combination on the keyboard Win + R, enter the control command in the window that opens and press OK.

   Type control in the Run window and click OK

2. Switch the view to large or small icons, then select “Network and Sharing Center.”

   You need to open the “Network and Sharing Center” section

3. A new local connection has been created. In the column on the right, click the “Change adapter settings” button.
4. Open the properties of the network that provides access to the Internet.

   Open the properties of the Internet traffic provider network

5. Go to the “Access” tab, in the “Home network connection” filter, select the connection created with the phone, check the “Allow ...” items and save the changes by clicking OK.

   In the settings of the “Access” tab, check the boxes and save the changes

6. In a similar way, through the context menu, open the properties of the local connection to the phone.

   Opening the properties of the Internet traffic consumer network

7. Select “IP version 4” and click “Properties”.

   Open the properties of “IP version 4”

8. Change the IP address and subnet mask settings:
   • IP address: 192.168.0.1;
   • subnet mask: 255.255.255.0.

Video: how to connect the Internet to an Android smartphone via a USB cable

What to do if the Internet does not start

Sometimes there may be cases when all the instructions are followed, but traffic still does not go to the smartphone. Do not rush to get upset, most likely, the firewall service is running on your PC. This is a kind of firewall that blocks questionable computer networks. Therefore, we correct the situation by disabling the firewall:

1. Open the “Control Panel”, select the “Windows Defender Firewall” item.

   Select "Windows Defender Firewall" in the PC Control Panel

On the right, click on the “Turn Windows Firewall on or off” button.




Disabling the firewall for stable operation of computer networks

As a result, the blocking factor will be disabled and the network will work properly.

The firewall function can be taken over by your system's antivirus. In this case, you need to disable the defender's firewall. It is recommended to do this before creating a local connection with the computer.

Is it possible to connect an iPhone to the Internet via a USB cable?

Unfortunately, Apple has not provided its devices with the ability to receive the Internet via a USB connection to a computer.

The functionality of Apple gadgets is not limited only to the reverse side: the iPhone can be used as a modem and distribute traffic to computers and other devices. They can only receive connections to the router, as well as Internet communication channels of mobile operators.

It is not at all difficult to distribute the Internet via a USB cable to other devices. Unfortunately, if you own an iPhone, you won't be able to connect your phone to the Internet this way. Follow the instructions and you will be provided with a stable communication channel with the World Wide Web to use all the capabilities and functions of your smartphone.

Internet - always and everywhere. At work, at home, at the dacha in the car and on a walk, we should always be up to date with the news. The Internet on our phone, which is always at hand, helps us with this.

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In order to connect to the Internet on a mobile phone, the tariff must support mobile Internet. As a rule, all tariffs of mobile operators support this function by default. If you have not activated the service unlimited Internet,

then you will be charged for Internet access.

Find out if your mobile phone supports parameters such as GPRS or WAP, i.e. Does the manufacturer provide for the possibility of using this cell phone model to connect to the Internet? To do this, read the instructions included with the phone or find it in the menu of the device itself.

Connecting to the Internet on a phone with the Android operating system

• In order to access the Internet through a mobile operator:
• further section “Network”
• go to “Advanced settings”

Check the box “Mobile data enable access to data via mobile network”

There is another way, but it will work when you are within range of a Wi-Fi network:

• select the “Settings” section
• open the “Network” item
• in the Wi-Fi icon, move the slider to the right

Beeline Internet settings

To configure an access point:

• then click “More”
• find the section “Mobile networks”
• open the “Access points (APN)” tab

The names of menu items differ on different phone models. You find the ones that make sense.

You need to fill out 4 points:

1. Name. In this paragraph, enter: beeline. Click "Ok".
2. APN. Register your access point: internet.beeline.ru
3. Username. Specify: beeline
4. Password. Write: beeline

You can get automatic Internet settings by typing the USSD command *110*181# and pressing the “call” key. Next, simply save the configuration settings.

Internet setup Megafon

If you connected the Internet from Megafon, but for some reason the automatic settings did not arrive, you can make them manually:

• go to the “Settings” menu item
• open the “Wireless Connections and Networks” section
• then click “More”
• select the “Mobile networks” tab
• open the sub-item “Access points (APN)

If the list is empty, click the “+” icon in the upper right corner. Next you need to fill out 4 points:

1. Name. Specify: megafon
2. APN. Access point: internet
3. Username. Enter: gdata
4. Password: gdata

You can get automatic settings if you dial the USSD command *105*360# and challenge. And also through your Personal Account on the company website.

Setting up Internet Tele 2

If you have connected the Internet from the Tele 2 company, all you have to do is make settings on your phone:

• open the “Settings” menu item
• then click “More”
• go to the “Mobile networks” section
• select “Access Point”
• from the context menu select “Create access point”

The parameters of the new access point open. You only need to enter 2 points:

1. Name. Write: Tele2 internet
2. APN. Specify: internet.tele2.ru

Important! The “Username” and “Password” items remain empty.

To order automatic settings online, dial the number 679. Save and use the Internet service from Tele 2.

Setting up Internet Yota

If you use a SIM card from Yota and you need the Internet, then make the following settings for the access point:

1. Name: yota
2. APN you specify: yota.ru (in some cases: internet.yota)

Setting up mobile Internet on a smartphone with two SIM cards

The question often arises: how to set up mobile Internet on a Duos smartphone? It happens that the mobile Internet is connected, but there is no Internet access. You need to do the following:

• go to “Settings”
• select “SIM Card Manager”
• open “Data Network”

The settings may be specified, but the SIM card is simply not selected and, accordingly, the Internet does not work. Choose the SIM card through which you plan to access the Internet. You can change the SIM card to access the Internet at any time.

Internet booster for Android

To increase the speed on your Android smartphone, you need to use the Internet speed master program. This application works both for devices that have super user rights (Root rights) and for those devices that do not have Root rights.

Consider a smartphone that has Root rights. Download the application via Google Play (the application is free):

• launch the Internet Speed ​​Master application
• confirm the application's access to Root rights
• press the “APPLY PATH” button
• reboot your smartphone

After rebooting, the Internet connection speed will increase.

Let's consider an element of how this application works with devices that do not have Root rights:

• press the “IMPROVE INTERNET CONNECTION” button
• A message window appears in which you click “OK”

The strong impact of this application on Internet speed may not always be noticeable. There is another way you can use to speed up the loading of pages in your browser. One of the most popular browsers on Android is Chrome:

• launch the browser
• click on the three dots in the upper right corner
• Select “Settings” from the list
• open the “Traffic Saving” icon
• move the slider to the “On” state

Mobile Internet: useful about pleasant things

A smartphone with mobile Internet is pure pleasure, and 4 will help you extend it simple advice about how to simply and efficiently use the mobile Internet:

1. Tip 1. Control the life of your smartphone. Mobile applications downloaded to your smartphone may periodically request updates. In order to manage the update, in the “Settings” menu, check the “Manual update” option. Thus, you choose for yourself what you need and what you don’t.
2. Tip 2. Watch Internet videos - also look at the traffic. While watching the video, you left and paused it. Even when paused, the video file is cached, i.e. saved to a buffer. Accordingly, Internet traffic is consumed throughout the entire video download
3. Tip 3. A free application can eat traffic. Often, advertisements are broadcast along with the download of some applications. Your traffic may be consumed by it
4. Tip 4. Choosing a method to access the Internet is easy. If you travel abroad and want to use the Internet, just connect Wi-Fi. And if you want to hide from civilization, then turn off data reception and transmission on your smartphone. Including disabling the e-mail client and other programs that access the Internet automatically

Video: How to set up the Internet?

Internet via a mobile phone or smartphone that supports 2G and/or 3G communication technology can be configured on the user’s computer.

Let's look at all the available ways to configure this.

Connect your PC to the Internet via a smartphone (Wi Fi hotspot)

If you use your PC and urgently need access to the Internet, but don’t have a cable or router at hand, you can set up your smartphone as an access point. It will work like a router and you can connect to it from your computer.

Follow the instructions below to connect your laptop or PC to your smartphone with mobile internet:

• Enable the wireless network in your computer's settings;

• In the window that opens, create a name for the access point (any) and a password (minimum 8 characters). Click save and then move the slider that turns on the hotspot;
• Now from your PC, connect to your mobile router just like you would to any other wifi router.

Connecting a smartphone to a computer as a modem

To connect, you must have a USB cable (to connect your smartphone to your PC).

Follow the instructions:

• Connect the smart device to the PC using an adapter;
• Immediately after connecting the smartphone, a dialog box appears on its screen asking you to select a connection mode. Ignore this window and close it;
• Go to the main menu of the device and then go to the phone settings;
• Open the USB modem setup window and set it to “Enabled” mode, as shown in the figure;

• After enabling modem mode on your smartphone, the computer will automatically begin installing the necessary driver software. Several dialog boxes will appear during the driver installation process.
  The user must check permission for subsequent connections to the modem, and also indicate the desired type of connection network);
• After installing the driver, the PC will be connected to the network. A network connection icon will appear in the notification area of ​​your operating system.

Note! Computers with older versions of the operating system, for example,WindowsXP/Vista cannot automatically start installing the necessary drivers. In this case, you need to download the software from the official website of the smartphone manufacturer.

To make your Internet connection faster, select 3G connection technology in your smartphone’s mobile Internet settings.

Internet access from a computer via a regular cell phone

You can access the network from your computer by connecting the most ordinary cell phone to it.

There are several requirements for a mobile phone: it must support 3G, GPRS or EDGE connection technology, a phone driver installed on the PC, a SIM card with configured Internet and funds in the account, and a USB cord is also required to connect the mobile phone to the PC.

Follow the instructions to find out how to connect the Internet on your computer via your mobile phone:

• Install the modem driver on your personal computer. You can download it from the website of the mobile device manufacturer;
• After installing the driver, you need to initialize the modem. To do this, connect your mobile to your PC and open the device manager;

• In the tab with modems, select a cell phone, right-click on it and open the properties tab, then find the field for additional initialization parameters and write the following line in this field: AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”active”. Click OK;

• Now you need to create a connection. Open the network and sharing management window and select creating a new network, as shown in the figure below;

• Enter the dial-up number in the window that opens (usually *9**#, the number must be checked with your mobile operator);
• Enter the information you received from the operator in the window shown in the screenshot below and click on the Create button.

Now the connection has been created, to access the network you just need to connect your cell phone to your PC, open the saved connection and press the call button. In a few minutes the Internet will be connected.

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Mobile Internet is still a fairly expensive and slow way to connect to the World Wide Web. Therefore, using it as the main Internet connection for a desktop computer is quite inconvenient.

However, there are times when there is simply no other option. For example, during a vacation trip or a breakdown of the main Internet provider. In such cases, you have to resort to using the mobile Internet. In this material we will talk about how to connect a computer to the Internet via a mobile phone.

The easiest way to connect your computer to the Internet via a mobile phone is to use the Hotspot function. Most modern smartphones have this feature.

After enabling the “Access Point” function, your mobile phone will begin to work like, creating a Wi-Fi network with access to the Internet. In order for the Internet to work on your computer via your mobile phone, you just need to connect to this Wi-Fi network.

It should be noted that using the “Access Point” function has a number of disadvantages:

• Not every mobile phone supports this function. As a rule, only advanced smartphones provide this opportunity.
• Using the Hotspot function drains your mobile phone battery faster.
• Using the “Access Point” function leads to increased consumption of Internet traffic.
• To connect to an access point, a Wi-Fi module must be installed on your computer.

Mobile phone as a modem

The second way to connect a computer to the Internet via a mobile phone is to use the mobile phone as a modem. Unlike “Access Point”, this method works with most modern mobile phones.

Since this method of connecting to the mobile Internet is quite complex, we will look at it step by step.

Step No. 1. Connect your mobile phone to your computer.

Connect your mobile phone to your computer using a cable or . After connecting, install a program to synchronize your mobile phone with your computer. This could be the Nokia Suite program if you have a Nokia phone, or the Samsung Kies program if you have a Samsung phone. If your phone came with a driver disc, install them too.

After connecting and installing all the necessary programs, your mobile phone modem should appear in Device Manager.

Step #2: Create a new Internet connection.

Once you have connected your mobile phone to your computer, you can begin creating a new Internet connection. To do this, open Control Panel -> Network and Internet -> Network and Sharing Center.

In the “Network and Sharing Center” window, click on the “Set up a new network connection” link.

After this, the “Set up a network connection” window will open in front of you. Here you need to select “Set up a telephone connection” and click on the “Next” button.

In the next window you must specify the number to dial, username and password. This data will be used by the modem to connect to the Internet. To find out your dialing number, login and password, contact your mobile provider.

After entering all the data, click on the “Connect” button. If you did everything correctly, your computer should connect to the Internet.

Nowadays, almost everyone has a smartphone, but most users only know the basic capabilities of their device (phone calls, Internet access, messaging, etc.). However, among other things, a smartphone can also be used as a hotspot to connect to the worldwide network of other mobile devices, and here we will tell you how to connect your phone to the internet through a cell phone.

For such a connection, you only need a little attention and basic navigation through the sections and parameters of the tablet/mobile phone.

How to distribute the Internet from a phone to a tablet via wifi?

So, in order to connect your tablet to the Internet via another phone via wifi, you will need to perform the following steps (the example considers setting up devices with the Android operating system):

• - on the “distributing” smartphone, go to “Settings”, where a list of sections will open: “Wireless networks” (“WiFi networks”) / “Bluetooth” / “Mobile network”, etc. and find the “Advanced” (“More”) subsection below;
• - then open the “Modem Mode” window and click on the “WiFi access point” item;

• - the “Set up WiFi access point” window will appear: specify the “name” of the network to be created, the type of protection (the best option is “WPA2-PSK”), create a security key (the length of which will be at least 8 characters) and save the settings;
• - the network has been created: to connect to the Internet from another phone or tablet, search for available “wifi networks”, select the access point you created and simply connect to it (using the security key).

How to distribute the Internet from a phone via bluetooth?

A standard phone connection to the Internet via another phone via wifi is not all the possibilities that can be realized. So, with simple settings, you can easily turn your smartphone into a “Bluetooth modem”:

Similar to the previous connection, go to the “Modem Mode” settings section and in the list of possible scenarios (“USB modem”, “WiFi access point” and “Bluetooth modem”), select the last option accordingly;

• - then from the phone or tablet that you need to connect to the Internet, search for “Bluetooth devices”, select the desired network and click “Connect”;
• - as with any Bluetooth connection, it is necessary to pair the devices: a pairing notification with a digital code will appear on both devices - enter it in the appropriate field and click “OK”.

How to connect the Internet from your phone to your computer via USB?

In addition, using a smartphone, you can also use a laptop using the “usb port”:

• - connect your smartphone and computer with a “micro USB to USB” cable;
• - on the mobile device in the same “Modem mode” section, select “USB modem”;

A new connection will appear on the computer in the “ ” section: by default it will be disabled; to enable it, just right-click and select “Enable”.

All of the above methods for connecting a phone, tablet, computer or laptop to the Internet via a cell phone are suitable for owners of an iPhone and other Apple devices (the only differences may be in the names of parameters and settings sections).

How to distribute internet from a windows phone?

For owners of devices with the Windows Phone operating system, the setup is slightly different than described above, but in terms of complexity it is even easier.

So, to distribute the Internet from a phone running Windows phone, you need to do the following:

• - mobile Internet must be active on the phone from which the Internet connection will be distributed - only with this type of connection will it be possible to create an access point. But it is worth considering that for such traffic consumption the operator can charge according to tariffs;
• - then in the settings, select the “Internet Sharing” section, move the slider to the “Enabled” position: below there will be a notification that for the created access point the maximum number of connections is “8” (on “Android” - up to 5 connections);
• - then click on the “Install” button - a window will appear where you need to specify the name of the network to be created and the password to connect to it.

The Windows Phone operating system is also good because you can set limits on traffic consumed when connecting to the Internet through another cell phone.

For this:

• - open “Settings” and swipe your fingers across the screen from right to left - the “Applications” section will open;
• - the fourth item in the list is the “Data Control” subsection - click on it and open the “Set limit” option.

Thus, connecting mobile Internet from your phone to other devices is quite simple and opens up wide possibilities for using your smartphone.

How to distribute mobile Internet from your phone: additional recommendations

Connecting to the Internet through another phone is incredibly convenient. Let it be a distribution between two phones or from a phone to a laptop or PC - in terms of speed indicators it is in no way inferior to “3G modems”, and in most cases even surpasses them.

There are a lot of ways to turn a smartphone into an access point - you can choose it to suit the current situation.

For example, in order to make an access point from a mobile phone, you only need to go to Settings, go to the “Advanced” tab and click on the “WiFi access point” item. Next, you will need to come up with a name and password for the network you are creating.

It is also possible to create a “Bluetooth modem”: the setup principle is the same, only instead of “WiFi access point” you need to select “Bluetooth modem” and pair it with the device that needs to be provided with an Internet connection.

Similarly, you can distribute the Internet from your phone to your computer. To do this, you will need to carry out the same steps, only you need to select “USB modem”.

But it is worth considering possible costs, since the mobile operator may charge an additional fee for using Internet traffic in this way.