Ignorance

[allenlondon]

Really showing mine here. I know a great deal about (insert obscenity) ... all.

Is there a way of connecting our mobiles to our ipads without taking out contracts etc...

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[bednobs]

https://www.microcenter.com/tech_center/article/5486/how-to-connect-an-ipad-to-an-android-via-bluetooth-tethering#:~:text=Description%3A%20Use%20an%20Android's%20Bluetooth,option%20to%20enable%20Bluetooth%20Tethering.&text=The%20iPad%20now%20has%20internet%20access%20through%20the%20phones%20mobile%20data%20connection.
i have never done it but i did tether a laptop to an i phone for a bit and as i recall it was simple

[Tilly2]

I suspect you can do it using Bluetooth.

[Tilly2]

Bednobs got there before me. :-)

[bednobs]

beware though that using the ipad may use up mobile data at an alarming rate depending on what you're doind

[allenlondon]

Gotcha. so all you’re doing is turning your phone’s internet connection ON, then using the ipad’s keypad through whatever you’re connecting to on the www?

Makes sense, but expensive just to have a proper keyboard.

Thanks, all knowledge is useful!

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[bobbinwales]

You can use your ipads to make calls using whatssap, viber ect if that helps??

[calmck]

Also FaceTime on Ipads

[bobbinwales]

Facetime, whatsapp ect would be through wifi connexion tho ratherthan via mobile so you'd need wifi at both ends if your thinking of using your ipdas to call and see your wife

[bednobs]

"Gotcha. so all you’re doing is turning your phone’s internet connection ON, then using the ipad’s keypad through whatever you’re connecting to on the www?" got it.
What is it you want to acheive? if you tell us that may lead to a response that it helpful?

[allenlondon]

Righto, bednobs. We have two methods of keeping in touch.

1) By text. This has been stable for the month Mrs A has been in hospital.

2) Our preferred method is by using the messaging facility in WordFeud, giving us our iPad keyboards.

The dodgy WiFi at the hospital means that we can sometimes chat for hours, more often it drops out after half an hour and we have to revert to texting.

Thus, I was wondering if we could use our stable mobiles to tie in with our preferred iPads. But the answer seems to be ‘Yes’, but onlyif weswitch our wifi to ON - which we avoid as it is a silly price.

There always seems to be something to frustrate our attempts to subvert the system.

Never mind, Mrs A is doing better, and that’s more important.

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[barry1010]

You don’t need the hospital WiFi. I don’t know what phone you have but you go into settings and turn tethering or hotspot on. Your phone is not using hospital WiFi to do this.
On the iPad open WiFi settings and search for new WiFi, you should see the iPad’s WiFi and connect to that
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[barry1010]

Alternatively if the iPad can take a sim cad simply take the one out of the phone and put it in the iPad.

[bednobs]

it sounds to me as if Allen/Mrs Allen do not have "Plans" for data on their phones, so using them to tether is expensive

[barry1010]

Ah! Are you saying that your phone’s data is expensive? If so it is time to change provider

[bednobs]

i think, by the sound of it they are only exchanging messages in text form, but find the keyboard on the phones a bit small, and want to use the ipad keyboard to send text messages via the phone?

[Togo]

When I was in Hospital, I used BT wifi Hotspot that was fortunately available in the Hospital vicinity. We are with BT, so once I had logged in with our account details I was connected and up and running without the woeful Hospital wifi, much to their annoyance. If you are not a BT customer and there is a hotspot available with good signal you can still log in and give payment details for a set period of 24hrs, 1 week, 2 weeks, or I think a month. If your laptop or means of getting online is showing a BT hotspot as an available network and has good signal bars(at least 2)you just try to connect and take it from there.

[Togo]

Must admit that it has become much more expensive than when I first became aware of it some years back when on hols in Cornwall.

https://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/internet/broadband/bt-wifi-information-login-password-apps-password-hotspot-abroad-fon-11364204842628

[allenlondon]

barry. Possibly, but in the middle of this emergency might not be a good time to switch about. And hopefully this will be resolved by Christmas (insh’allah).

Bednobs. Precisely.

Togo. At those prices I’ll just pray harder for her recovery.

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[barry1010]

Hope she is out of hospital soon. Just curious - can her iPad take a SIM card?

[barry1010]

If it can, Smarty do a data only pay as you go SIM with 30GB data for £10. I think that is a real bargain
https://smarty.co.uk/data-sim