Turn your Laptop into a Wi-Fi Hotspot

Wi-Fi is a popular technology that allows an electronic device to exchange data or connect to the internet wirelessly using radio waves. The Wi-Fi Alliance defines Wi-Fi as any "wireless local area network (WLAN) products that are based on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) 802.11 standards". However, since most modern WLANs
are based on these standards, the term "Wi-Fi" is used in general English as a synonym for "WLAN". Only Wi-Fi products that complete Wi-Fi Alliance interoperability certification testing successfully may use the "Wi-Fi CERTIFIED" trademark.

Source Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi

All laptops are built-in WLAN adapter that allows us to connect or to detect Wi-Fi signals to connect to the internet. Using this WLAN adapter we can share it to extend or to share our internet connection using command prompt (CMD).

How?

Follow Steps below:

1    1.)    Open command prompt (CMD), and run it as administrator.

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2    2.)    Type:

“netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=techmehowto key=qwerty123”

(Without quotation mark). And then hit Enter.

Netsh = Net Share

Ssid = Name of the Wi-Fi

Key = Password

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4    3.)    Once you’ve done the procedure without any error, now you can start sharing your Internet connection by typing “netsh wlan start hostednetwork” (Without quotation mark) and it will message hosted network started.

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5    4.)    Finally the last step of this Process.

Go to >>Control Panel

      >>Network and Internet

>>Network and Sharing Center

                >>Change Adapter Setting (left side)

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      In my case I am connected to a Wi-Fi, right click the adapter and select Sharing.

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Happy Sharing.