[mdorazio]

Does the laptop also prevent wireless tethering to your phone? Turning your phone into a hotspot is pretty trivial, at least on iOS. I often have to do it due to similarly arcane security configuration settings on my work laptop.

[sandworm101]

Yes, but unless you have a phone with two wifi connections then you will have to use your cellphone's data plan rather than the hotel wifi. When traveling, doing a teleconference or having your work laptop perform a windows update over your cellphone data connection isn't cheap. We used to just tether to our work phones, but they locked that down after seeing the international roaming bills.

[mendelmaleh]

Connecting to wifi and enableing the hotspot at the same time works on my phone (pixel 5), it probably just uses different bands. It's pretty useful to avoid typing passwords twice.

[pests]

Android on certain phones can hotspot a WiFi connection both over wireless and USB.