I've been having problems with my cable broadband over the last couple of months. To the point where I had a complete loss of service for over 6 weeks, and had to find some kind of alternative to keep myself running. My ISP didn't seem interested in getting my connection fixed properly, and I had to contend with both remote work and the needs of my smart home devices.

That is where an often-overlooked Android feature came to my rescue. Ethernet tethering meant I could plug an old Google Pixel 8a, complete with an unlimited data SIM, into my home Wi-Fi network and get everything back online in about 10 seconds.

And it worked right up until my internet connection decided it was going to start working again — regardless of how useless my ISP was being. In fact, it worked so well that I may

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