Turn Your Windows 8 Laptop into a Wireless Access Point

A lot of companies are starting to sell portable 3G routers that you can take with you when you go out, but what happens when you forget, now What the Hack will show you with this neat command line trick.

Creating Your Own WI-FI Hotspot

Press the Windows + R key combination to bring up a run box, type ncpa.cpl and hit enter.

When your network connections open right-click on your Wireless network adapter and select properties from the context menu.

Now minimise it as we will open it later

place ur mouse at bottom left "start" and right click it.

now open command prompt (admin)

The first thing we need to do is set up the wireless network, this is done using the netsh command like so:

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=ViVeK-WiFi key=networks

Where ssid is the name of your network and key is the password you want users to connect with, its also worth mentioning that the access point is created with WPA2-PSK (AES) encryption.

Now switch over to the minimised window and right click properties on the selected network and switch over to sharing teb and allow other devices to use your machines internet by selecting the first checkbox and then unchecking the second before clicking on the OK button.choose ur newly created connection in the menubox

Open Command Prompt (Admin) again and type this command

Now you are ready to publish ur internet wifi connection :

netsh wlan start hosted network

If u Want to see how many ppl r connected to your network then type:

netsh wlan show hosted network

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