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Title: iPhone 12 offers a big Personal Hotspot advantage over iPhone 11
Post by: HCK on October 27, 2020, 04:05:14 pm
iPhone 12 offers a big Personal Hotspot advantage over iPhone 11

5GHz is faster than 2.4GHz but has a shorter range.

What you need to know


The iPhone 12 offers a big Personal Hotspot advantage over iPhone 11.
That's because it supports tethering over 5GHz, rather than 2.4GHz.
Combined with 5G, it could make for an immense speed boost when tethered.


The Phone 12 will let users tether to other devices using 5GHz Wi-Fi, rather than 2.4GHz, for a big speed Personal Hotspot speed boost.

From MacRumors:


  As noted by MacRumors contributor Steve Moser, and confirmed by Aaron Zollo, the iPhone 12 lineup introduces support for Personal Hotspot tethering over faster 5GHz Wi-Fi, compared to 2.4GHz Wi-Fi on previous iPhones.


As with previous cellular Apple devices, the iPhone 12 will allow users to connect a Wi-Fi-enabled device like a laptop or tablet to the internet using your iPhone's cellular signal and data. Previously, this connection was only supported through 2.4GHz Wi-Fi. However, with iPhone 12, this has been upgraded to 5GHz.

This could...

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