Wired iPad mini hotspot

We're having our first major CenturyLink outage in a few years of service. I blamed the EdgerouterX for it until sitting through a troubleshoot with their L1 support and learning that they can't see the ONT. We're dead in the water until Monday, provided all goes well with the tech appointment then. Meanwhile, hotspots for everybody.

I was reminded today, after a bunch of mystery failures trying to connect the Mac Studio to my phone, that you can do a cabled hotspot, too. You just have to plug in, accept the usual "do you trust this device" nagging, and then set up the wired connection from the Mac's Network settings panel:

I've got a last-gen iPad mini that I'd kept on my AT&T account, so it's plugged into the Studio now.

I'm hoping it'll be a little more stable than the wireless hotspot connection.

24 hours later: It has been super stable. Not blazing fast, but Zoom calls don't fall apart and it stayed on and connected overnight. Win.