Comment on Staying for the week at an AirBnB in Rochester, MN. This is what I just found out I'm stuck with.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months agoNot a big enough deal for me to do that now that I discovered I can tether my notebook to my phone via USB even though it won’t let me use it as a WiFi hotspot for some reason. Annoying having to cart around both together like that if I want to go to another room, but better than the alternative.
elxeno@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Weird that wifi doesn’t work, maybe it’s 5ghz on iphone and your laptop doesn’t support?
Anyway you could try bluetooth tethering, it could be a bit slower than usb but it’s more convenient, just keeping both in the same room should get good signal. I had no problems on android + linux using
blueman. I think mint usesblueberry, dunno if it supports tethering too, but it’s pretty easy to switch from one to the other.FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Bluetooth tethering is super slow. And yeah, it might be a 5g thing. It’s an old notebook. It’s not a big deal.