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Why does my mobile hotspot disconnect every 5 minutes?
I rely on my hotspot a lot to work from home because I live in a more rural area and for the past 3 weeks my hotspot disconnects any time I try to use a feature on my phone, check a text, etc. There ...
This seems an old thread, but it's an ongoing problem. Does anybody have a clue why my hotspot will randomly disconnect from the internet (usually after accessing a web page) even though the rest of my connected network (printer, et al.) remains usable? It only shuts off the internet gateway and this is unknown until I try to access another site. Sometimes it disconnects my laptop (Win 11) from the hotspot. Usually it doesn't. Regardless, it is unusable until I restart the hotspot--then back to business for an hour. Or two minutes. Or half a day. Or 23 minutes. Or less. Or more.
This is an Inseego M3000 and the 100G/month 5G plan, connected to a brand new HP laptop running Win 11. All updates in place.
So, any answers? I travel in an RV and the signal strength seems robust enough, but this dropout has been happening more and more as I move north and east in the US (today in VT).
