Tethering iPad LTE to iPhone

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Tethering iPad LTE to iPhone

Hi everyone,

I am having a weird problem here. I bought an iPad with huge data plan because my iPhone is on contract and has rather limited data each month. I want to tethering my iPad to my iPhone 5 so I can share the LTE connection on my iPad with my iPhone. However, it does not work this way.

I can only make my iPad to share the 3G connection on my iPhone 5 but not the other way round. I have turned on Personal Hotspot on both devices, while iPad has no trouble seeing my iPhone and sucking the data out of it but my iPhone just couldn't connect to my iPad. After I have paired the two devices by letting iPad take the lead. It will refuse to work if I turn off the Personal Hotspot on my phone and try to access internet through the LTE connection on my iPad. It will pop up an error message saying the iPad is not on or not in the range. Frustrating!

Does anyone know how to get around with this? I suspect this is a limitation of iOS. Please help.

iPad, iOS 6.1, 4Gen LTE

Posted on Feb 11, 2013 3:57 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 11, 2013 4:12 PM in response to liberson

If you only want to share the internet from the iPad to the phone, do not turn on the Hotspot feature on the phone. Only turn it on on the iPad. Having them both on may be causing issues.

So Turn on Personal Hotspot on the iPAd, then look for it on the iPhone's Wifi settings. and try to connect to it.

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liberson Author

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Feb 11, 2013 4:21 PM in response to Phil0124

Hi Phil,

Thanks for your input. I was trying to pair the two with Bluetooth as it may be more power efficient.

Have you tried using Bluetooth to connect the iPad LTE to an iPhone?

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deggie

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Feb 11, 2013 5:14 PM in response to liberson

Bluetooth tethering will not be more power efficient and will give you far less range.

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Answer 4

Feb 12, 2013 7:07 AM in response to liberson

I've always used Wifi tethering and it works just fine. Don't know if its more or less power efficient though. Based on deggie's response, I'd sya it doesn't really matter.

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