In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 9 Feb 2021 03:34:07 -0800 (PST),
" wrote:

On Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 5:59:45 AM UTC-5, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 9 Feb 2021 01:57:03 -0800 (PST),
" wrote:

On Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 12:25:59 AM UTC-5, micky wrote:
I've started to car shop in advance.

One car has a hotspot.

That's only if a pay for a cable to run to the car, right?

Heh. Good one.

Cindy Hamilton
I couldn't figure out why one would pay extra when his phone already has
data, but googling r3eminded me that some people have kids with tablets
or laptops. I always just stare out the window.

We have two tablets. My husband's is on our cellphone data plan, but mine
isn't. A hotspot in the car could be used to feed data to my table.

Of course, my cellphone can do the same thing.

My previous phone had hotspot, and I wondered if and how I'd ever use
it, but only a few months later, I stayed in my brother's old apartment,
while he and his wife and kid lived upstairs. He thought the building
had wifi but it was only the lobby. My phone worked well as the hotspot.

Then 6 months later I rented a room from two guys who had no internet,
only their phones that were not hotspots for me. Again, mine powered my
laptop just fine.

I put the phone right next to the laptop but with a car hotspot, the
driver can turn it off if s/he wants the kids to starte out the window.

I wondered how the car manufacturer might justify such a device
and ran across this:

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/heres-how-wifi-hotspots-work-in-cars/

V. good.

Cindy Hamilton