How To Turn Your Windows 8.1 Into a Wi-Fi Hotspot With CMD
That moment always comes when you have an internet connection on your PC using a modem and you wish to share your network connection with another device such as your tablet, mobile phone or even another PC, but you are in a fix since you don’t seem to have a router close by. That should be history by the time you are done reading this WiFi Hotspot tip for windows.
There are lots of tools(software) out there that can help you share your PC’s internet connection, but this tutorial uses only the command prompt which you would find in your windows personal computer. Follow the steps below.
1. Click on Start Menu (or press the Windows Logo key on your keyboard).
2. Type “CMD” without quotes.
3. Right Click and Run as Administrator to launch the window.
4. Copy and paste the below code into your CMD window, then hit Enter on your keyboard.
netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=Oscarmini key=justmypass
The above code would create a hotspot connection with SSID as “Oscarmini” and Passkey as “justmypass” . To create a unique SSID and password, change Oscarmini and justmypass from the code above.
5. After the connection must have been successfully created, copy-paste the below code to start the Hotspot connection.
netsh wlan start hostednetwork
See what it looks like setting this up in command prompt on my Windows 8 PC.
6. Now it’s time to enable the network sharing. Goto Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center. Now locate your newly created network and click on Local Area Connection next to connections.
7. A window would pop up, you have to click onProperties here.
8. Select the Sharing tab, check the “Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s internet connection” checkbox, select your network connection (the Local Area Connection you selected in step 6) . Then click on OK. You can now close the Control Panel window.
Hurray! You have successfully setup your WiFi Hotspot connection from your PC. Others can now share your internet connection using the passkey you created this with.
Note: To stop the connection, use this code.
netsh wlan stop hostednetwork
I hope you find this tutorial helpful.
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