The new ipad personal hotspot doesn't worked...(Malaysia)

I hv just confirmed with a DiGi spokesperson.. She mentioned that DiGi does not support Personal Hotspot for this moment and until today, 20th June 2012, there is no news about it from DiGi management.

Same here, Digi replied to my email saying Hotspot is a device feature and I should contact device manufacturer.

Sigh, I guess they are still clueless on this while their competitors are happily welcoming Digi converts.

I will have to convert soon as this is very frustrating.

Before switch to other network, please check once in a iPhone-4. If personal hotspot is working, then your network supports hotspot, you have to make some changes in your iPad configurations like APN settings etc to enable it.

Regards,

Umakanta

Hi Yash, I think it will work with anything, till both the entry are same. For me it is working with my name, which is only 4 character.

Regards,

Umakanta

Just fill network Apn setting to : INTERNET

Or else reset network settings and reboot

You're welcome

Thanks it really worked ....... I was getting frustrated as I was. Unable to find personal hot spot on my iPad 3

Ultrakyo are you using ipad 1 & 2? The hotspot only available on ipad3, unless you use other apps like pdanet or mywi

Taufiq, I am using iPad 3 and iOS 6 fix this. Man, that is six months.

Yes, i am ausing digi and after update to iOS 6, Hotspot is work for me. By the way, i am using New Ipad and share with my Samsung S2.

Hello ,

I had almost same problem with my new ipad3. And 2 days of research I was able to sort out the issue.

1. IOS 5.1 was pre loaded and the personal hot spot option was not there at all. Checked with my carrier and they said they support interbet tethering

2.Then I upgarded to IOS 6

3. Personal Hot spot option came under settings>cellular data

4. But there was no direct hotspot option under settings

5. I changed my sim to another carrier sim which was there in my friend's iphone(with working mobile data and internet tethering)

6. Rebooted may be twice

7. And surprisingly direct "personal hotspot" option started displaying under settings apart from under settings>cellular data

8. Checked data and hotspot ,Both started working and I confirmed there is no problems with my ipad and ios6

9. Changed the sim back to original and given the correct APN settings for both data and Internat tethering. In my case I just had to specify APN only . No user name and password ( Againg it is carrier dependant)

10. Switched on wireless , made sure that wireless didn't connect to any wifi network

11. Switched on hotspot

12 .Set the wifi password

13. Kept the hot spot screen alive with with the display time out set to 5 min

14. Checked the laptop , My ipad hotspot network was showing there. Right click > Forger network

15. And finally connect to my ipad hotspot wireless.

16. Win 7 took about 2 mins to detect the internet connection on that. Please keep in mind that hotspot settings screen should be alive in the ipad.And will show you there is an active hotspot connection.

17. Once you are connected and able to browse then you can switch off your display and your connection will stay

Hope this long story helps somebody :-)

Please make a note that Your carrier should support hotspot (Internet tethering) and you must ask for proper APN settings from your carrier. Other wise none of the above stated things will not work :-(

Rgds

Vinayan

Hey, chuapeishi

I had similar problem with my ipad4 ios6 wifi+cellular i just bought one month ago. Personal hotspot would keep searching for its menu endlessly. I had the belief that with more fiddling using online supports someday, it would work.

Fortunately I ran into a free app in the apps store called 'HOTSPOT VPN' and purchased it for free. After installing the the app, voila! My personal hotspot became active, I could find the hotspot on my Nokia phone, of course I did not try to connect to the internet with it, but am sure it will as well as my macbook whenever I wish.

Wishing you success!