Setting up Google Chromecast to a mobile hotspot on a mobile phone.

Recently I went completely mobile for accessing the internet, ditching the ADSL2+ broadband and landline. When you make a change like this you need to make sure you don't lose any services you currently use. The Google Chromecast is one such service.

Google Chromecast is relatively easy to set up normally. The hotspot in your home is usually the Wi-Fi access point, which is also your router and ADSL modem, or cable modem. Because your mobile phone and Google Chromecast connect to the Wi-Fi access point everything tends to work OK.

However, if you want to ditch the home broadband and go mobile, you need to set up the Google Chromecast to use your mobile phone as the hotspot. Therein lies the problem. When setting up a Google Chromecast the set up steps need to use Wi-Fi, this disables the hotspot, which means the Google Chromecast can't access a network.

There's an easy way to work around this issue. Set up your mobile phone as the hotspot. Now get a second mobile phone and connect the second mobile to your hotspot. Use Google Home on the second mobile phone to set up the Google Chromecast with the Google Chromecast using your first mobile phone as the hotspot and network. Once the set up is complete the second mobile is no longer required.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au
IT support.