Hi All,
After having no problems with the apartment wifi where I am staying in Thailand for three days, yesterday I suddenly could not obtain an IP address and got the IP configuration failure message. I've run through the usual troubleshooting fixes -- restart phone, flight mode, change name of phone, static IP address, clear Google services cache, but nothing works. All I have left to do now I think is to ask the apartment to reset the router and then the nuclear option -- the factory reset for my phone. I'm on good terms with the staff so they will probably do the router reset for me but if that doesn't work, then I'm stumped.
The thing I'm wondering about is whether this IP address issue was related to the hotspot tethering session I did the previous day. Yesterday, I used a 4G network on my phone and then tethered my laptop to it in order to do some banking which required better security than the shared wifi network. I've done a brief search but haven't found anything yet on the possible consequences of tethering to network access and IP addresses. But is it possible that by creating a wifi network for my laptop, the hotel router is now confused about my IP address and thus has locked me out?
Thanks in advance.
My vitals:
Android v. 11
Moto g power (purchased new)
local Thai SIM card
SD card installed
After having no problems with the apartment wifi where I am staying in Thailand for three days, yesterday I suddenly could not obtain an IP address and got the IP configuration failure message. I've run through the usual troubleshooting fixes -- restart phone, flight mode, change name of phone, static IP address, clear Google services cache, but nothing works. All I have left to do now I think is to ask the apartment to reset the router and then the nuclear option -- the factory reset for my phone. I'm on good terms with the staff so they will probably do the router reset for me but if that doesn't work, then I'm stumped.
The thing I'm wondering about is whether this IP address issue was related to the hotspot tethering session I did the previous day. Yesterday, I used a 4G network on my phone and then tethered my laptop to it in order to do some banking which required better security than the shared wifi network. I've done a brief search but haven't found anything yet on the possible consequences of tethering to network access and IP addresses. But is it possible that by creating a wifi network for my laptop, the hotel router is now confused about my IP address and thus has locked me out?
Thanks in advance.
My vitals:
Android v. 11
Moto g power (purchased new)
local Thai SIM card
SD card installed