# Setup Mesh Argon with a cellular hotspot **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [December 16, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/setup-mesh-argon-with-a-cellular-hotspot/46342 "2018-12-16T17:58:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![rocksetta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/rocksetta/32/5099_2.png) [@rocksetta](https://community.particle.io/u/rocksetta)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 3:46am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/setup-mesh-argon-with-a-cellular-hotspot/46342/6 "2018-12-17T03:46:50Z")
So I emailed the image of the scan code to my computer then enlarged the image and that scanned on my older android tablet. Got a cellular hotspot working by trying a few more times. I did use another Android device to get the Argon setup but no proof that was needed. I then got a Xenon working on the same mesh and did a bit of a distance test. One cool thing with the hotspot is that I could leave a xenon with a battery pack and drive away from it with the hotspot and the Argon gateway. Inside the car I only got about 100 m, but with the Argon outside the car got similar to using my home Wifi about 220m. (Still not a perfect line of sight test, will do that later.) I did notice something that @will should be informed of. I have been walking around with several Xenons and they setup fairly solid local networks if they lose the connection with the gateway, but today when I shut off my hotspot to the Argon, it did not keep a local network, did not matter if it was flashing green or breathing cyan, it was basically locked up. My Xenon was still signalling every 30 seconds, and not getting a signal from the Argon, but the Argon was not even signalling every 30 second, it looked locked. This was using the [Mesh Hello World](https://community.particle.io/t/mesh-hello-world/45985) code. When I restarted the hotspot, the Argon did not reconnect (like it was locked up). I had to soft reset the Argon for it to reconnect with the hotspot. Then everything was fine again. Bit concerning that the Argon did not auto-reconnect with the hotspot. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.particle.io/t/setup-mesh-argon-with-a-cellular-hotspot/46342)._