Connect your laptop to the Internet using your Samsung Epic 4G smart phone.
The Samsung Epic 4G smart phone allows you to convert your phone into a Wi-Fi hotspot and connect up to five devices. Such a set-up will keep you from running around searching for an area that offers free Wi-FI. If you're stuck in an airport or staying overnight at a hotel, you won't have to pay extra for Internet service. You can connect your laptop or other media device to your phone's Wi-Fi network.
Instructions
Enable 4G
1. Press the "Home" button, which looks like the outline of a house, on the bottom of your Samsung Epic 4G phone.
2. Click the "Menu" button to the left of the "Home" button.
3. Click the "Settings" icon, which looks like a gray box with a spoke in the middle.
4. Scroll through the list and click "Wireless & Networks."
5. Press "4G" until a check mark appears, indicating the 4G network is enabled.
6. Click the "Home" button. The 4G icon will appear to the left of your signal bars in the upper-right corner of your screen. The separate sets of bars above the 4G logo indicate the strength of your 4G signal. When the bars above the 4G logo are completely gray and the 4G logo is white, you have a weak signal. When you are no longer receiving a 4G signal, your 4G logo will be gray and a 3G logo will appear, indicating that the 3G network is now enabled. If both of the logos disappear, you are not receiving any signal. You must have either a 3G or a 4G signal to use your phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot.
Enable Sprint Hotspot
7. Press the "Applications" icon, a blue box with four whites squares in it, in the lower-right corner of your Samsung Epic 4G phone.
8. Press the "Sprint Hotspot" icon, which looks like a phone with two signal bars on the right side, until a check mark appears to the right of the icon, signaling the Spring hotspot function is enabled. A pass-key allowing you to connect other devices to the phone's network will appear on the screen. Write the pass-key down.
9. Enable Wi-Fi on your laptop or other device that you want to tether to your Samsung Epic 4G phone.
10. Search for the Wi-Fi network affiliated with your Samsung Epic 4G phone. The name of the network will begin with "SPH-D700XXX." To change the name of the Wi-Fi network affiliated with your Samsung Epic 4G phone, press the "Menu" button; the "Settings" icon; and "Device Name." Enter the new name for phone's Wi-Fi network.
11. Click the network affiliated with your Samsung Epic 4G phone on the device you want to tether to your phone'ss Wi-Fii network. Enter the pass-key, and click "OK." Your device will now be tethered to the Wi-Fi hotspot on your Samsung Epic 4G phone.
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