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Use Tasker to Notify when your Tethered Devices lose Internet Access

Create a tethering 'no network' warnings with Tasker. It will let you know when your connection drops out. Notifications for wearables and connected devices

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From the last article, you know that I spend quite a bit of my time on a train. It's an excellent time to write an article or two, provided I have access to the Internet to look up facts and ideas. Tethering can be tricky on the train, as reception-less areas are scattered across my route. I find it quite easy to tell that I’m about to go offline when I’m in a tunnel, but the situation is less apparent when the train cruises through the open meadows of North Yorkshire. Android's built-in tethering solution doesn’t have any way to let you know that you are not going to be able to load that website for the next 5 minutes.