Tethering means you never have internet down time..

I’ve been having crazy internet issues at home this weekend. And thanks to having some carry over work yesterday, it began to get frustrating to see internet repeatedly connect and disconnect.

And the solution – Tethering! If you have an iPhone or an Android(i.e. any phone with an Android OS), all you have to is ‘tether’ your 3G connection to your computer. In simple words, this means you can transfer your 3G internet connection to your laptop by just connecting your phone to it.

So simple, yet very good!

Admittedly, I realized the power of tethering when we lost internet at our office for a day thanks to some maintenance. And we were working off a shared internet connection from my tethered phone. In simple words, that means –

Step 1: Connect my phone to my laptop and have my laptop use 3G
Step 2: Share the 3G internet with a wireless network created on my laptop to others around me..

And the good news – it actually worked at optimal speeds even with 3 people using it for all practical purposes at the same time!