Set your own WiFI Hotspot without any cost

Set your own WiFI Hotspot

If You have a wired connection in a device, let it be Laptop, All-in-one desktops or PC with a WiFi Inetrface, you can turn your own WiFi Hotspots for all other devices like laptp, tab or mobile. This blog will show you how to setup your own WiFi hotspot in just few steps without a third party software. There are several third party softwares are avaialble but most of them give access for a limited time or ask for purchase, Few of them contains unwanted toolbars, and even malwares in some cases embedded with them which cause your system to delay, hang or even security compromise .This is free tool inside windows which needs to be activated only. Here we go for the configuration:-

1. First turn On WiFi on the system which has wired access to Internet.

 2. Run Command Prompt in Adminstrator Mode (How ?)

  3. Now type “netsh wlan show drivers” in Command Promt and Press Enter

 

 The Output will come like as shown above, Check the line “Hosted Network Supported:YES” , this should be Yes, otherwise your device may not work as WiFi Hotspot. Let us assume this is Yes, and go to next command.

  

4. “netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=******** key=********”
  Where ******** should be replaced by Name of WiFi network and password respectively. Password should be minimum 8 characters.The success message will be dispalyed as shown in screenshot below. You don’t need to type quotes with any of the commands.

5. Lets now check the third command. This command will enable WiFi Hotspot.

      “netsh wlan start hostednetwork”

 

Now You are done with the Command prompt. You have to set the network properties for the initial time . To open Network Connection wizard, I’m providing the Run command, or you may go with GUI via Network and sharing center.

 6. Open Run command by Windows+R keys. (Press windows logo and R combination) and type “ncpa.cpl” in run dialogbox and Press “Enter” or click “OK”.

 

 

In network connection wizard, you will get minimum 3 network connections (It may be greater depending upon your system), One is Ethernet or Local area connection (Wired Connection) , One is WiFi adaptor and the third one is newly created virtual connection which will show  SSID name you just set (Here, Local Area Connection * 19) . You may have understand that, we are going to share the network from Ethernet to Virtual connection, So just find out those two interfaces. See the screenshot below, it will make you clear.

 

 

Lets do a final workout, Right Click on the Ethernet icon (Which is to be shared). Click Properties,

then click on Sharing tab….. Check the box showing “Allow other network users………..”  then just below it, from the drop down Select “Local area Connection*19″- The number 19 may be different in your case, say 13,20 or something else. This is the same virtual network which we have seen earlier.

 

 Now, check the WiFi in your mobile device, give password and connect…. & Enjoy surfing….

     If everything is working OK, the network connection wizard look like this. Check the red marked area which shows the SSID “technoterms”, Access type “Internet” means that private network has Internet access.

 

 

Finally, You have to stop the connection when you dont want it to work. So, one simple command is there for stopping the WiFi hotspot.Go to Command prompt as Administrator and type this:

     “netsh wlan stop hostednetwork”

TIPS:- I will recommend you to make a text file, where you type all 4 commands, The SSID and Password once set will not change, still you should change your WiFi password in frequent interval, Just change the password and copy that command from textfile and paste in command prompt by right click and paste option. Same for start and stop commands, just copy and paste them when you want to start and Stop WiFi.

 

 

 Courtesy by : http://technoterms.com

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