Solving problems with tethering wifi from an Android phone

2018-219-122 1 min read

Once I tried to connect from Win10 to a hotspot running off Google Pixel 2 (Android 8.1.0) connected to T-Mobile (tethering) and it worked for a while, but one day it just broke. Connection would work for 5-10 seconds allowing to load one website maybe, but then it threw some DNS errors. Setting DNS server manually didn’t help, also ping 8.8.8.8 timed out.

The solution (from elevated cmd prompt):

netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt
netsh winsock reset catalog
ipconfig /flushdns

And restart the computer.

Taken from this question @ answers.microsoft.com.

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