What is Wi-Fi Sharing on Galaxy S20, S10, S9, Note

what is Wi-Fi sharing Samsung Galaxy

Wi-Fi Sharing is a nice feature you can find in Mobile Hotspot settings on Samsung Galaxy devices

As we wrote in one of our previous articles, mobile hotspot makes your Android phone work as a wireless router. In this mode mobile data interface works as WAN and Wi-Fi as LAN respectively.

But Samsung added a nice expansion feature to Mobile Hotspot mode in their flagship Galaxy devices — it is called Wi-Fi sharing.

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How to Assign Static IP Address to Windows 10 PC

Nowadays the majority of computers are connected to the Internet. Usually PCs connect to wireless router via Wi-Fi or Ethernet and router serves to supply the Internet.

In most cases computers are configured to obtain an IP-address automatically because every router has a built-in DHCP server that serves to assign local IP to every device on the local area network (LAN).

But in some cases you might need to assign an IP-address manually. It is also called a static IP-address. The simplest example when you may need to use a static IP — while you are configuring your router or access point itself. And here is how to configure it on Windows 10 PC.

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WiFi Keeps Disconnecting and Reconnecting. How to Fix?

Connecting to WiFi Windows 10

Today we will talk about a rather unpleasant problem: WiFi is constantly disconnecting on your laptop, iPhone or Android. Sometimes it reconnects, sometimes it fails and consequently you have no Internet.

It goes without saying that on device with such network issue all your downloads will keep failing, all conversations like Skype will keep interrupting and you will get irritated.

When your client device tries to reconnect you will see Connecting… or Checking network requirements (in Windows) or Obtaining IP-address (on Android) under your wireless network name while normally you should see Connected, Secured or Unmetered/Connected respectively.

In this article we collected all known solutions that will hopefully help you fix the problem with dropping WiFi and Internet connection on Windows PC, iPhone or Android devices. 

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How to Enable and Disable Screenshots Notifications on Android 11, 10, 9, 8

Screenshot saved. Tap to view your screenshot

I take screenshots every day because my hobby is creating how-tos on tunecomp.net. And I must admit, I hate to see pop-up every time saying “Screenshot captured” or “Screenshot saved. Tap to view your screenshot”. And mostly because if I take another one a few seconds later it will contain this pop-us itself captured.

Moreover, there is a notification in the Status bar and on the lock screen. Here is how you can get rid of pop-ups and notifications after taking screenshots on Android 10, 9 and 8 so you won’t have to dismiss them each time.

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