XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   Brian Gregory  wrote:   
   > On 06/02/2025 13:38, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   > >    As Paul mentioned, USB thethering does not only require setting things   
   > > up at the phone end, but also at the computer end, so the computer can   
   > > use the phone as a modem. Not rocket-science, but probably unfamiliar   
   > > territory for most who have never done it.   
   >   
   > Maybe with ancient out of date mobile devices and ancient out of date   
   > versions of Windows. But it just worked when I did it recently.   
      
     I hadn't any problem either, but then I've been doing this stuff since   
   the early 2000's.   
      
     But for someone who has never done it and is unfamilar with the   
   subject matter, the mobile/Wi-Fi hotspot route is much more natural,   
   because, as I said, the Windows side is the same as setting up a   
   connection in your home, to a public hotspot (I mentioned Maccas), etc..   
      
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