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I wish to share my mobile phone connection with my laptop. Both are on windows 10. I understand this is called usb tethering and that it should work easily. However, I can't manage to have internet access on my computer.
I have a nokia lumia 735. Usb connection works for accessing the phone data. Would you folks have any ideas on how to share internet via usb ?
You can only share your phone's mobile connection over WiFi or Bluetooth. Since the PC you wish to share with is a laptop, it should have both of those available. As far as I know, sharing over USB is not available in Windows 10 Mobile.
To enable internet sharing, go to Settings → Network & wireless → Mobile hotspot. See this article for step-by-step instructions.
You only have wireless options for sharing internet of a Windows 10 mobile device. Incase you're seeking for confirmation then I can. I have suffered from similar situation you're suffering from and ended up installing Wi-Fi card in my laptop. Moreover I can confirm you that it is also impossible in Windows Phone versions 8 and 8.1. However I think something like reverse tethering can be done on a Windows phone 7.x device thanks to Zune. But for Windows Phone 8 and higher I can confirm you can't share cellular connection of a mobile device via USB. Moreover, Lumia 735 is no longer supported so waiting for a software update that could bring such feature is also worthless. Maybe this helps.
