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Hi, I recently connected to an hotel wifi network with jolla and I then enabled the WiFi tethering functionality to share the connection with my other devices.

Surprisingly, the tethering enabled the mobile data connection (3g or 4G) and the devices' requests were going out over 4G instead of the wifi connection.

I think makes sense to bridge the wifi hotspot interface with the current active internet connection (the one the phone would use to load a webpage or check email) and not always on the data interface. Many devices are nowadays capable of that, having that functionality on Jolla would reduce the number of tech gadgets required while travelling and also it would allow for safer internet usage: if for example a VPN is used on Jolla all devices share the same VPN tunnel, not requiring each device to open its own VPN connection.

other advantages of this solution:

• the settings are the same: every device has to be configured only for the jolla wifi network, only jolla phone has to be configured on each network
• jolla has a screen so it can be used for web based network logins, allowing to connect to internet devices with no screen or browser
• no need to carry additional devices

Hi, I recently connected to an hotel wifi network with jolla and I then enabled the WiFi tethering functionality to share the connection with my other devices.

Surprisingly, the tethering enabled the mobile data connection (3g or 4G) and the devices' requests were going out over 4G instead of the wifi connection.

I think makes sense to bridge the wifi hotspot interface with the current active internet connection (the one the phone would use to load a webpage or check email) and not always on the data interface. Many devices are nowadays capable of that, having that functionality on Jolla would reduce the number of tech gadgets required while travelling and also it would allow for safer internet usage: if for example a VPN is used on Jolla all devices share the same VPN tunnel, not requiring each device to open its own VPN connection.

other advantages of this solution:

• the settings are the same: every device has to be configured only for the jolla wifi network, only jolla phone has to be configured on each network
• jolla has a screen so it can be used for web based network logins, allowing to connect to internet devices with no screen or browser
• no need to carry additional devices

Hi, I recently connected to an hotel wifi network with jolla and I then enabled the WiFi tethering functionality to share the connection with my other devices.

Surprisingly, the tethering enabled the mobile data connection (3g or 4G) and the devices' requests were going out over 4G instead of the wifi connection.

I think makes sense to bridge the wifi hotspot interface with the current active internet connection (the one the phone would use to load a webpage or check email) and not always on the data interface. Many devices are nowadays capable of that, having that functionality on Jolla would reduce the number of tech gadgets required while travelling and also it would allow for safer internet usage: if for example a VPN is used on Jolla all devices share the same VPN tunnel, not requiring each device to open its own VPN connection.

other advantages of this solution:

• the settings are the same: every device has to be configured only for the jolla wifi network, only jolla phone has to be configured on each network
• jolla has a screen so it can be used for web based network logins, allowing to connect to internet devices with no screen or browser
• no need to carry additional devices