I am using Personal Hotspot to watch NFL Sunday Ticket on my laptop. It believes my location is the same place my area code is located. I therefore am unable to watch local games even though I am physically on the other side of the country.
iPhone 6, iOS 10
Personal Hotspot is a function provided by your carrier to share your cellular data. Location Services is what would tell an app where you are right now.
On your laptop, NFL Sunday has no idea where you are right now, only your phone number. If you ran an NFL Today app on your phone, and it asked Location services where you are right now, that may be different.
Thanks for the information. So it is not possible to properly share my location on my laptop while running the internet through the Personal Hotspot? DirecTV and Verizon are equally perplexed.
roryfrommadriver wrote:
So it is not possible to properly share my location on my laptop while running the internet through the Personal Hotspot?
Correct, exactly for the reasons @LACAllen explained.
Yeah... those apps on your laptop would have to be coded to ask for a location somehow.
For a laptop, there are ways to do this, but in my experience, not many PC based apps are currently as location focused as mobile devices are.
Whether the phone could be asked and be able to pass it on the the laptop is something I don't know.
I know my iMac has "location services" and some apps use them.
Location Services allows apps and websites to gather and use information based on the current location of your computer. Your approximate location is determined using information from local Wi-Fi networks, and is collected by Location Services in a manner that doesn’t personally identify you.
Done with wifi location data, so not as accurate as a GPS.
I guess I will see if it the location is appropriate through the NFL Sunday Ticket App and if so, maybe I could connect my iPhone directly to the TV.
Thank you kindly for the support!
You're welcome.
Why can't my location be determined using Personal Hotspot?
