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Priority
Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire

I've noticed something odd since switching to Public Mobile, as I was priory with Bell and this feature always worked with Bell before but now never with Public Mobile. 

I have the 40GB • $50 Canada-US Plan which still has 33.8GB left and everytime I turn on Mobile Hotspot and Connect another Device to it, it always says 'No Internet Connection' and if it does happen to give my teathered Device Wi-Fi that actually works from my Hotspot than my Data won't work at all while I have my Hotspot on and I can't do anything on my phone like it's giving all my bandwidth to the Connected Device.

With Bell I could have my Hotspot on, 3 Devices Connected, and I could still use my Data with Bell but now with Public Mobile I can't when teathering.. why is this happening and how do I fix it?

Mobile Hotspot is crucial to me as I use it constantly and Public pressumed to offer this feature, but it's not working normally as it should considering I just came from Bell where it was working so I feel like it's a feature I'm missing all together here when this is happening. 

I'm on LTE all the time whether with Hotspot on or off but that doesn't seem to make a difference in Connection for neither Devices unfortunately.

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Priority
Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire

I tested it out today and it seemed to work normally. @DennyCrane I am using the Canada-US Plan.

Maybe just everytime I used it before it was malfunctioning? I didn't adjust any settings or anything.

dust2dust
Mayor / Maire

I deleted the current apn's. Then discovered several Koodo and Telus apn's magically appeared. I deleted those as well. Then I added the apn's back for each sim.
I suspect that this set up gets messed up when a "foreign" sim is used. I had this set up before I went out of country in May and used a foreign service. I hadn't noticed the change until I looked at things to check on the very helpful post from KababMan. So I re-did things again. Everything works as I intended it to.


@DennyCrane wrote:

I never had any issues with hotspot until I changed to the Canada/US plan. Here's the thread where I posted about this 2 weeks ago and @softech provided the APN instructions which fixed it for me.

https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Get-Support/Mobile-Hotspot-Not-Working/td-p/1036756


@DennyCrane , I remember this now. You couldn’t edit it, no option to. I made a suggestion to create a new APN profile by selecting “Select New APN “ using @softech APN settings! 😉 

Edited: Again to fix the “wording”!

softech
Oracle
Oracle

@Priority 

you tried this?  And remember DUN could be case sensitive

APN: sp.mb.com
Proxy:
Port:
Username: <blank>
Password: <blank>
Server:
MMSC: http://aliasredirect.net/proxy/mb/mmsc
MMS Proxy: mmscproxy.mobility.ca
MMS Port: 8799
MCC: 302
MNC: 220
Authentication Type: Not Set
APN Type: default,supl,mms
         or    default,mms,agps,supl,fota,hipri
           (might need to include DUN for hotspot, please note case sensitive)
APN protocol: IPv4
APN roaming protocol: IPv4
APN enable/disable: APN enabled
                or  Turn APN on/off APN turned on
Bearer: Unspecified
MVNO (Mobile virtual network operator) type: GID
MVNO (Mobile virtual network operator)value: 4D

dust2dust
Mayor / Maire

I have dual sim both with Public. I use one primarily for data. I then use the other for just mms. I have the mms one using apn type set to just mms. I have the primary apn type set to default,mms,dun. I have no other apn's. Hotspot works fine. Which means the tethered item doesn't need to be there.
Don't forget to set the connecting device wifi setting to know it's a metered connection (if that's an option like on my W10 laptop).

DennyCrane
Mayor / Maire

I never had any issues with hotspot until I changed to the Canada/US plan. Here's the thread where I posted about this 2 weeks ago and @softech provided the APN instructions which fixed it for me.

https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Get-Support/Mobile-Hotspot-Not-Working/td-p/1036756

LitlLdy
Mayor / Maire

@Priority , I am on the $15, 250mb 3G Speed Plan & only use mine when necessary but have no issues using the hotspot on my iPhone to connect my iPad through it using Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. The only settings I have are below.

IPhone’s Personal HotSpot APN

Edit: Yet I’m told it is supposed to be set to sp.mb.com which I did but it apparently changes to isp.mb.com when I reset network settings & rebooted my iPhone! 🤔 I fixed it again then updated screenshot! Glad you brought this up!

KababMan
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

Works for me out of the box, but some people have said you have to add "dun" to the "APN type" (I already had it apparently). 

Screenshot_20230903_094408_Settings.jpg

(To get to that screen on the S23 it's Settings->Connections->Mobile Networks->Access Point Names->Tethered Mobile Internet.)

Handy1
Mayor / Maire

@Priority  I have not noticed this . It worked for me in the past without issues . Will try again later today when I have another  phone close by to test and report back 

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