How Do You Connect a Fire Stick to a Mobile Hotspot?
If your phone is capable of creating a mobile hotspot, or you have a dedicated mobile hotspot device, you can connect your Fire Stick to its signal.
Here’s how to connect a Fire Stick to a mobile hotspot:
Enable the hotspot on your phone, or turn on your mobile hotspot device. Not sure how to enable your phone’s hotspot function? Here’s how: iPhone: How to set up the mobile hotspot on an iPhone. Android: How to turn on the mobile hotspot on Android. Connect your Fire Stick to a TV, and switch to the appropriate input. From the Fire Stick home screen, select the gear icon. Select Network. Select your mobile hotspot network. If you don’t see your mobile hotspot listed, make sure it’s on and then select See All Networks. Enter the password for your mobile hotspot. Select Connect. Your Fire Stick will connect to your mobile hotspot.
Will My Fire Stick Work With My Mobile Hotspot?
Your Fire Stick will work with your mobile hotspot the same way it works with your home Wi-Fi network, with one exception. If your mobile hotspot connection isn’t fast enough, you won’t be able to stream, or you will experience excessive buffering.
Not sure how to enable your phone’s hotspot function? Here’s how:
iPhone: How to set up the mobile hotspot on an iPhone. Android: How to turn on the mobile hotspot on Android.
If your mobile connection doesn’t provide consistent download speeds of at least 3 Mbps, it won’t work very well with your Fire Stick. If you want to stream in high definition, then your mobile connection needs to provide download speeds of at least 5Mbps. If your connection is faster than that, then your Fire Stick will work with your mobile hotspot.
Why Doesn’t My iPhone Hotspot Work With My Fire Stick?
Your iPhone hotspot should work with your Fire Stick as long as your connection is fast enough. If it is, but you see a connection error, then you may need to manually configure the Wi-Fi connection on your Fire Stick.
Here’s how to manually set up a Fire Stick connection to an iPhone hotspot:
Enable the hotspot on your iPhone. On your Fire Stick home screen, select the gear icon. Select Network. Highlight the iPhone mobile hotspot connection, and press the menu icon on your remote to forget the connection. Select Join Other Network. Enter the SSID of your iPhone hotspot. The SSID is the name of the hotspot, i. e. (your name)’s iPhone Select Advanced. Enter 172. 20. 10. 4 as the IP address. Enter 172. 20. 10. 1 as the Gateway. Set the prefix length to 28. Enter 8. 8. 8. 8 as the DNS. Leave the second DNS field blank. Select Connect. If you still see a connection error, you may need to update your Fire Stick.
