• How to kill a wifi hot-spot?

    From bad sector@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 20 08:14:49 2024
    Samsung Flip5, android, rural/remote area.

    Had an interesting case of *hot-spot failure* that several hours of
    discussion with the (Telus) supplier's help desk was unable to solve!
    I'm new to smart-phones and use mine for mainly 2 things, these being
    its reason for existance: internet hot-spot and possible outgoing
    emergency calls. The contract says XY gb's of data per month at high
    rate and the rest at low. Because of topography and antenna distribution
    the low-rate never works but the high one usually got me up to 4-5 Mb/s.
    During times of medium to heavy precipitation in the direction of what I suspect is the source antenna (about 50 km over water) reception starts
    to falter. Last month I maxed out the quota so were it not for my wife's
    phone I would have ended up with no internet for 4 days. Time for the beef.

    All of a sudden, no connection, so next day I got on the blower and they
    guided me step-by-step through TS for quite a while, none of it
    resulting in any kind of fix. My wife's phone continued delivering so
    the issue was in or with mine. We broke for lunch and then I had the
    idea to do a factory reset, which worked. I'd like to FIND the actual
    cause and be able to repeatedly DUPLICATE the problem so as to avoid it
    in the future, hence this post.

    I'd appreciate a short list of possible suspects although to my way of
    thinking IF I am able to select hot-spot ON then there should be nothing
    else to do or not do on the phone-side. If there is then the hot-spot
    slider should be ghosted (which it never was).

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