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GrmCrkrs
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Q: can personal hotspot use wifi if you are connected to a wifi network?

Simple question. If I jailbreak, I can use Mywi and it chooses wifi or 3g to share based on the availability of wifi. Does the stock, personal hotspot feature sometimes share the wifi internet with, say, a tethered computer, or does it ONLY share the 3g signal as your documentation makes it sound?

iPhone 5, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Jan 25, 2013 1:26 PM

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Q: can personal hotspot use wifi if you are connected to a wifi network?

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  • by BigTarantula99,

    BigTarantula99 BigTarantula99 Jan 25, 2013 1:28 PM in response to GrmCrkrs
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    Jan 25, 2013 1:28 PM in response to GrmCrkrs

    Nothing about jailbreaking can me mentioned here.  Please ask somewhere else.

  • by rickfromharleysville,

    rickfromharleysville rickfromharleysville Jan 25, 2013 1:40 PM in response to GrmCrkrs
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    Jan 25, 2013 1:40 PM in response to GrmCrkrs

    Personal Hotspot uses cellular data only, even when connected to Wifi. It switches from Wifi to cellular when Hotspot is started up. If Wifi was available why would you need to use Hotspot?

  • by ShizzleFizzle,

    ShizzleFizzle ShizzleFizzle Apr 15, 2013 12:45 PM in response to rickfromharleysville
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    Apr 15, 2013 12:45 PM in response to rickfromharleysville

    I see this is a 3 month old post, but just in case anyone ever needs this to reference:

     

    Here is a reason why this would be useful, if needed:

     

    I am sitting in a Starbucks. For some reason, my iPad CAN connect to their Wi-Fi today, but my Macbook Pro cannot. Nobody's can. Called AT&T help # and it says they are working on an "issue" in our area with regard to this phenomenon).

     

    So, I want to share this iPad WiFi connection (not it's cellular data) with my MBP, without draining my cellular data plan of bandwidth if possible. The same way internet sharing works on an MBP. it can go either way...sharing a Wi-Fi signal via ethernet, or sharing an ethernet connection via Wi-Fi.

     

    Sadly, I actually thought it was working until I saw my data usage from this past 2 hours. Aaaaargh!

  • by ljhopkins2,

    ljhopkins2 ljhopkins2 Jun 22, 2013 5:11 AM in response to ShizzleFizzle
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    Jun 22, 2013 5:11 AM in response to ShizzleFizzle

    To add on another use case, I want to use my Apple TV over hotel wifi that requires a "last name/room number" login. Apple TV can't log on to that network, but my iPad can. I can then connect Apple TV to my personal hotspot, but it uses cellular data rather than the existing wifi.