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Solution to Nokia 5 tethering problems

The Nokia 5 is a great phone for it's price. But it seems to have some problems with the tethering hotspot function. The hotspot often stops working after a while. It seems to happen when you move between base stations. After that, you can no longer connect to internet with your tethered computer. A reboot of the Nokia 5 will help, but you need to do this all the time and it's quite annoying. I found out that a reboot isn't needed. The problem with the tethering seems to be caused by the Nokia 5 not giving a working DNS address to the tethered computer. If you change the DNS addresses of your computer to 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 (both are free to use public DNS servers), the tethering will work without booting you Nokia 5.