I travel w/my trucker husband & of course I do just about everything on my phone from banking to stream cartoons. But my laptop is a paperweight out here on the road. How does my phone supply an internet browser if my laptop can’t?
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If your laptop has a WWAN adapter and a SIM card in it it will be ale to make a WLAN hotspot too.
The thing is that you need something that will be able to talk with the cellular network to have mobile internet.
Cellphones have this as a standard component, because they need it to be cellphones. Tablets, notebooks or ebook readers generally don’t necessarily need it and have it as an optional extra.
it is just a small chip on on PCI card the size of your thumbnail and your average business laptop will have a connector for it on the mainboard and a slot for the SIM card it needs to function.
The thing is that you don’t really need it. How often do you use a laptop in places where there is no WLAN?
More importantly, how often do you need to connect your laptop to the internet in places with no WLAN when you don’t have a cell phone to provide it with a WLAN HotSpot/Tether.
You only really need one dedicated device to connect to the cell notwork and share that with all you other devices. Your phone is it.
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