My Nitro AN715-51 will not connet to my mobile hotspot (WIFI tethering)

Stuffnest

Hi guys,

I've just spent 2 days trying to find a solution to this problem, but so far nothing has worked.

I am trying to connect my Nitro AN715-51 to my mobile phone's hotspot to get online but it keeps saying 'unable to connect to the network'.

I have of course not double but triple checked the correct mobile hotspot password, tried to update the WIFI card drivers, I have even reinstalled the whole Windows, yet, the problem persists.

I have tried 3 different mobile phones and 2 different carriers but no success.

I have gone to a service centre and in the end we managed to connect through a USB WIFI adapter, so the I'm half way there.

It's really weird how come this laptop won't connect to a mobile hotspot as my other 2 laptops - one is about 5 years old (Win10) and the other is just 1 year old - both connect to the same mobile hotspot with no issues whatsoever.

If there is a super user or a pro who knows the solution to this frustrating issue, I'd be super grateful if you let me know.

Thank you!

Stuffnest

Hi, thank you for the reply. It was the Intel AC-9162 driver. After I had given up I had tried one more thing (somehow came up with it as the last resort) - selecting the driver manually from Device Manager -> 'THE WIFI ADAPTER NAME' -> Update Driver -> Browse my computer for drivers -> Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer -> and there was the correct one displayed! If I clicked just Update Driver -> Browse -> and selected the folder with the WIFI driver that way, it wouldn't work - it always picked the wrong driver for some reason.

After all this I could connect to my mobile phone's hotspot without any further issues.