Hello all, thanks in advance for your help. I am knowledgable in computers and networking, butnot an IT Professional, so the answer may be obvious, but I appreciate your help.
The question: How can I share my phone's data plan, to get internet on my home network, and also be able to share a printer, and files?
The situation: I have kicked out the cable company ISP, and my wife and I rely on our 4G unlimited data plans on our phones. I have the cable modem/wifi router that we used with cable. We have a desktop PC running Windows 7, with a USB attached printer/scanner. There are 2 laptops in the house as well, both running Windows 10. I had been creating a hotspot with 1 phone and connecting, to get the laptop online, but then if I want to print, I disconnect from hotspot, and connect back to home wifi network, in order to print. I also tried running connectify on desktop to share phones USB Tethering ability, this works well for internet sharing, but connectify does not have any means for file/printer sharing.
All our hardware is mostly current and capable. Our phones are both Android.
Help please!
The question: How can I share my phone's data plan, to get internet on my home network, and also be able to share a printer, and files?
The situation: I have kicked out the cable company ISP, and my wife and I rely on our 4G unlimited data plans on our phones. I have the cable modem/wifi router that we used with cable. We have a desktop PC running Windows 7, with a USB attached printer/scanner. There are 2 laptops in the house as well, both running Windows 10. I had been creating a hotspot with 1 phone and connecting, to get the laptop online, but then if I want to print, I disconnect from hotspot, and connect back to home wifi network, in order to print. I also tried running connectify on desktop to share phones USB Tethering ability, this works well for internet sharing, but connectify does not have any means for file/printer sharing.
All our hardware is mostly current and capable. Our phones are both Android.
Help please!