What is mobile phone tethering

Mobile phone tethering is a very nice technique in which a device can be chain or tether with another device, like your PC or another smart phone to share Internet mobile data with other devices. Mobile phone tethering might be of three types like,

1. USB tethering
2. Bluetooth tethering
3. Wi-fi tethering
All of the above types of techniques has its merits and demerits, but we will first learn about these three types.

1. USB tethering

USB mobile phone tethering is a very common way to chain or tether your Internet data with your PC. You just need a USB cable a mobile phone with Internet data and a PC to use USB tethering. In fact, it is a way to run Internet from your mobile phone by using it as a modem to your PC. The plus point of USB tethering is your mobile phone keep charges itself so there is no battery leakage happens. This technique shares or chain data only one to one device.

2. Bluetooth tethering

Blue tooth mobile phone tethering is another way to tether your Internet running mobile phone data with your PC. You just need to enable your blue tooth on your mobile phone as well as on your PC. It is good because it is a wireless technology but it has battery leakage problem. It is also chain or tether data only one two one device.

3. Wi-fi tethering

Wi-fi mobile phone tethering is also a technique to tether your mobile phone data with multiple PCs and mobile phone devices. In other words it is called wi-fi hotspot technology. It also has battery leakage problem but it is a faster and efficient way to tether your data among devices.

So there are various ways to tether or chain your data with other devices, and they all have some issues and features. Now, you have learned about mobile phone tethering and its types. So keep learning from computerflicks . Please leave comments.

References

1. whatIs
2. webopedia
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