Can the Wifi version of the new iPad be setup with the wifi hotspot feature as a wireless LAN connection that other devices (in my case a mac mini) could connect to the lan with?
iPad (3rd gen) Wi-Fi, iOS 5.1.1
If you are creating a hotspot with your pad ( or your I phone or other smartphone with hotspot capabilities) then any device that uses wifi can get to the Internet using that connection. So, yes.
The downsides are
You will eat up your data cap that much faster.
The speed will only be as fast as your cell data connection. This may be particularly distracting if you are using a computer/ laptop, where you are used to wired LAN speeds.
You will be sharing that single data connection with whoever you have on your LAN, which may further erode the speed.
I'm not talking about hooking up to internet. I'm talking about creating a LAN with the wifi hotspot. With the wifi hotspot set up I could see my iPad as a wifi connection, and the computer connect to it for data transfer or w/e without internet browsing or anything like that. The idea is that the iPad is both a device on the LAN and the router/modem for it.
second, the iPad is not 4g enabled. its a wifi only, so the question: Can the iPad be setup as a wifi hotspot if it doesn't have 4g, and the wifi connection is not going to be used for internet?
A "hotspot" routes traffic from a wifi device to a 3G network, not from a wifi device to a wifi device. Get a cheap wifi router to create your wifi network.
So there's no way to create a wifi network via hotspot on an iPad?
No, there isn't. An iPad cannot act as a wireless access point except for connecting to the Internet via the 3G data service.
Regards.
Wifi hotspot on a non-4G iPad to use as a LAN connection?
