Hasn't this been available for at least a decade? It's always been there.
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And furthermore, you can share your internet from your computer, if running Linux, to other devices via Ethernet or WiFi! There may even be a super hacky way to do it through Bluetooth as well, but I'm gonna assume that wouldn't be worthwhile to pursue...
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While very useful, it's not exactly the same as connecting straight to your WiFi. Iirc your android device will act as an additional nat and firewall, which can make it more difficult connecting to the device behind it from devices connected to the regular network, and vice versa.
There was a nifty feature in one of my older android phones where you could share the wifi as another wifi Hotspot, extremely useful while at a hotel or something so you can connect the chromecast or other devices that can't "sign in"
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Yup, I've been using this for more than 10 years for gaming. It's weirdly reliable.
Not seeing how this isn't simply the forever-available stock 'hotspot' ?
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Some anti-China ISPs won't let some tablets connect. wifi hotspot from phone to rescue.
As you suggested I used to do this when distro hopping on my old HP Elitebook that needed Realtek WiFi drivers to be installed manually most of the time.
I've used this a few times with my gli-net travel router (I assume it would work with any openwrt router)
I do use my android to play mario kart wii online, on my wii
Afaik that feature (or at least one of the implementations) was discontinued in one of the recent versions of Android.
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