How to make your portable hotspot faster this is an advanced tutorial so
make sure you watch the full video to benefit the most from it what you're
looking at right now is a diagram that is showing you what a typical wireless
hotspot looks like you have your hotspot which could be a phone and it's
connected to the wireless network which could be a 3G 4G or 5g network and on
the right you have the devices that are connected to the hotspot so you have
your PC you have a mobile device and then this box is to represent if there
are any more devices connected to the same Wi-Fi hotspot so that means that
the reasons why your Wi-Fi hotspot might be slower could be either because the
device is connected to the hotspot are slowing it down but it could also be
that the hotspot is slower or because the network that you're connected to
offers limited data speeds if the network provides limited data speeds
what would mean is that even if you optimize the devices you buy a new
device or you buy a new hotspot it wouldn't make any kind of difference
however there are certain settings that you can do to optimize the connection
between network and hotspot there are two things you can do to have a better
data throughput between the network and the hotspot what you'll need to do is
you need to go into your settings and then select the sim card which you're
using for your data connection and if you are on 4G network disable VoLTE now
VoLTE is used to improve the quality of voice calls however if you're using just
for data purposes the hotspot it doesn't make sense to have it enabled now this
should improve your hotspot performance and the second thing I recommend is in
the network type when you go you should definitely try to have
a speed test on both the LTE which is 4G and if you have a really slow
performance do try it on 3G network as well in some cases let's say in my case
I've noticed that 3G network has always performed a lot more faster than the 4G
network however for some people the 4G network is gonna be performing a lot
more faster now doing a speed test on your portable hotspot is pretty easy
select whichever network you want to test so let's say I want to test my 3G
network speed I'm gonna select that as the network type and then I'm gonna go
into Play Store and I'm gonna download this app called fast speed test once I
do that I can open it and as soon as I open it it runs off the speed test
right away
so right now it's showing me the download speed and it's going to show me
the latency as well in a few seconds and there we go so we have the latency for
me it's about 278 m/s right now and now it's testing the upload speed as well so
let's see how much that is
so my upload speed on the 3G network is 2.1 Mbps but it's not finalized yet
because it's still grayed out so I'm gonna just wait till it darkens up like
the rest of the text and there we go so now it's 1.8 Mbps and that's my upload
speed make sure to run this page test on both 4G as well as 3G network in case
you have a 5g network you should test that out as well
now that the part between the network and the hotspot is covered we're gonna
cover on what could be the possible bottlenecks between the hotspot and the
devices what you'll need to do is go into your settings and then portable
hotspot it might be called wireless hotspot as well for some users and you
will see something called as setup portable hotspot or it might be portable
hotspot settings now once you select that you'll see an option called select
ap band now in my case it's set to 2.4 gigahertz but it's gonna be a lot more
faster if you have it set to 5.0 gigahertz band make sure that all your
devices that are connecting to the hotspot support this frequency otherwise
you might notice that some devices like really old devices are not able to
connect to the hotspot in that case it's up to you to decide if that device needs
to connect to hotspot or not or if you want to have accessibility for that
device as well you'll need to revert back to 2.4 gigahertz band now that your
hotspot is optimized the last step comes is optimizing the devices that are
connected to the hotspot as well and understanding their limitations so for
example I have my tablet connected to the Wi-Fi network right now and I'm
gonna run a speed test to show you guys what speed I get
so on my tablet I'm getting 75 Mbps and my upload speed is still loading so I'm
going to wait for that to finish
so the test finished at 110 upload speed now my phone is connected to the Wi-Fi
as well and it's the same Wi-Fi however I'm getting a lot more speed it's like
three times more download speed as compared to my other device so it's
going 360 Mbps right now 380 Wow dark and ah and this is something like you
should know because the devices are connected to the same Wi-Fi network
however the download speed for the tablet is slower because it's a really
old device and that is a hardware limitation that cannot be improved upon
however my other device is newer and that's why it's able to give me a lot
more download speed so that's something you should note feel free to run speed
tests on all your devices to know where the limitation is the next thing I
wanted to talk about is if you're let's say using your mobile device so
previously I was demonstrating this as a portable hotspot but let's assume that
this is connected to another hotspot or a Wi-Fi network as right now so what I
recommend you guys to do is whether you are on PC or using your phone or tablet
you should install this app it's called 1.1.1.1 and it's
available on the Google Play Store and all you have to do is once you open it
go into your settings and make sure that is selected to the first one because
I've noticed that the performance for the first one is better for me you can
feel free to try with the second one as well but for me the first one works
and then I'm gonna just enable it and that's the last step you need to do to
optimize your devices if you have any questions regarding optimizing your
hotspot do let me know through comments thank you for watching this video and I
hope you guys find it useful bye