Many times we have an old dongle without WI-FI hotspot facility or you get access to your brothers PC with high speed internet. You want to use it in your phone but are helpless.
This post is to guide you about creating a wi-fi hotspot using cmd in windows.
STEP 1-
Open command prompt using Run – Press Windows Key + R and type in cmd in the Run dialogue box and hit enter.
Open Command prompt from Start – Right click on Start
button and select Command Prompt (Admin). This should open the command
prompt in administrative mode. Or press Windows key + X and select
Command Prompt (Admin).
In command prompt type the following commands
netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=MyWi-Fi key=yourpassword
In the above command “MyWi-Fi” is your Wi-Fi hotspot name and “yourpassword” will be your password.
Change it according to your need.
Press enter to create the hosted network. If the hosted network is created successfully, you should see a success message.
Step 2: Start the Wi-Fi Hotspot
Now you need to start the hosted network, to do this type the following command:
netsh wlan start hostednetwork
This will start the hosted network in
your PC and a connection named as MyWi-Fi (or whatever you named it)
will appear in Network Connection list.
Next step is to share the existing internet connection with newly created Wi-Fi hotspot.
Go to Control Panel, Network and Internet and open Network Connection. Or copy and paste this “Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections” in Windows Explorer.
Right-click on your existing internet connection and select Properties.In my case it was Local Area Connection.
From the properties window, click on Sharing tab.
Now check “Allows other network users to connect through this computer’s Internet connection.”
Click on “Select a Private Network” and select the newly created Wi-Fi connection from the drop down list.
Click on the OK button to save the settings and close the properties window.
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