Android Devices: Tethering and Portable Wi-Fi Hotspots

What is tethering and portable Wi-Fi hotspots?? Honestly, I am the one who do not know much about technology. Before this, I don't know how to connect the internet by using tethering and portable wi-fi hotspots until my friend told me that I can do so by using my smartphone. Actually, I'm the new user for smartphone, Sony Xperia V that I bought it about one month ago. Talking about my new phone, at the beginning I was awkward to use it. It is because, my previous phone is a normal mobile phone that just have keypad and at that moment, I don't know what is android! 

This is my previous phone. I used this phone only for call and text message. I bought the new one because the previous phone was broken.

My new smartphone

Now, I am happy using this android device and this is worth it to buy this smartphone. I subscribe Celcom broadband for my smartphone for one week to connect the internet.  Usually, I always use broadband device for my laptop but unfortunately I left the broadband at my hometown. 

 At the beginning, I was worried because I don't know how to do all my assignments, tasks, homework until my friend told me that I can use usb cable to connect the internet from my smartphone to my laptop, with called tethering and portable wi-fi hotspots. Tethering is when you turn on your smartphone into a mobile Wi-Fi hotspots and share your phones 3G or 4G data connection. One's you have turned tethering on, any device with wireless connection can connect to the internet via your smartphone connection. 

However, not all smartphone support tethering. Thanks to Allah, my phone is able to support tethering. Usually, the most popular smartphone can do, including the iPhone, Samsung Galaxy S3, Nokia Lumia 920, Blackberry z10, and of course, my beloved Sony Xperia V. By using this tethering and portable hotspots, we have to enter the password to prevent other people piggybacking on our connection. But, we just have to enter the password for the first time we connect, and next time, the tablet should connect automatically. We also can use usb cable to tethering and connect the internet.