Comment on I hate Samsung and their dumb software design choices, and this is one of them. Why do I need a SIM card to enable a hotspot whereas every other phone works without one?

• lefixxx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That would be cellular to wifi tethering. How can someone expect to have cellular internet without a sim.

  Is OP trying to use his phone as an routerless wifi access point? That would be a crazy edge case. And it still wouldn’t be tethering.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That would be cellular to wifi tethering.

    No, like…what he’s trying to do is to put the phone on an existing WiFi access point, then have the phone itself act as a second WiFi access point.

    This phone is broken (broken screen) and was given to me, so I figured I’d use it as a WiFi extender, but I guess I can’t.

    He’s trying to use it as an ad-hoc range extender. Like, he presumably has one device that can’t see the existing wireless access point, so he wants to put the phone somewhere that’s still in range of the first access point, then chain access to his device.

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    • kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That sounds like a hardware limitation more than anything. Is it normal for standard consume wifi chips to be able to receive and broadcast simultaneously on two different networks? I know that’s definitely not something you can usually do with PC hardware.

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      • tal@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That sounds like a hardware limitation more than anything.

        According to one of OP’s follow-up comments, he says that it works if he puts a random SIM in without service on it, so it’s not a limitation on his phone, at any rate.

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  • RedC@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    OP likely has an esim

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