I shared the LTE connection with my Chromebook, iPhone 4S, and a MacBook for about four hours. That $10/monthly fee for the iPad mini was looking pretty good as I fired it up as a hotspot. One of the advantage of the Verizon Share Everything plan is that any data device can be used as a hotspot at no charge.
The Samsung hotspot only gets about 4 hours of battery and with no idea how long my connectivity would be out I fired up the personal hotspot feature on the iPad mini. I reached for the Samsung Mobile Hotspot device I use in such situations but remembered my hotspot theory about the iPad mini. My entire AT&T Uverse web connection was dead. Given the timing of the outage I first thought it was a fault in the new tablet, but that was not the case. Instead I set out installing the dozen or so key apps I use a lot but in the middle of that process the Internet connection in my home office died.
Use mac as hotspot for ipad install#
I didn't want to install all of the dozens of apps I have on the big iPad as I rarely use some of them. Once the tablet was put on my Share Everything plan with Verizon (a quick phone call) I started downloading the apps I already own on the bigger iPad. Little did I know such a circumstance would occur right after receiving and activating the new iPad mini. The long battery life (~12 hours so far) coupled with the fast LTE connectivity could be tasked as a mobile hotspot when circumstances warranted it. It only costs me $10/month and it shares the 10GB data pool on my plan.īefore the device arrived it occurred to me that it would make a great MiFi-like device in a pinch. I bought the 4G/LTE model on the Verizon network and added it to my Share Everything plan. My iPad mini arrived a day earlier than expected and circumstances forced me to put it right to work.
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