There are some drawbacks I've noticed when using my phone as a mobile hotspot, especially under heavier workloads.

Before you sign up for that tablet data plan, why not just your phone as a mobile hotspot instead? Mobile hotspot — sometimes called wireless tethering — is a feature on most smartphones that lets you ...

Connect from a Mac: open the Wi-Fi menu and select the hotspot. Connect from other Apple devices: open Settings > Wi-Fi and choose the hotspot from the list. This article explains how to turn on the ...

The Nighthawk M3 5G mobile router offers up to 2.5 GB/s of network data transfer speed when connected to a full 5G network. This might not be the fastest mobile router out there, with the M6 Pro and ...

Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is ...

As the launch of Microsoft’s Windows Phone “Mango” update approaches, the number of missing features keeps dwindling, with support for front-facing cameras and Wi-Fi hotspots now confirmed. We’ve ...

Looking for some hardware recommendations for a mesh wifi router system that will support failover to some kind of cellular hotspot for when our cable internet goes down. I've got a tabletop gaming ...

RIM has developed a knack for pulling customers into new BlackBerry devices. That’s no mean feat. BlackBerry is the most mature, most imitated, and most-targeted brand in the mobile industry. RIM ...