Sunday, 4 January 2015

How to Share Your Internet Connection on your hosted network(Hotspot)

In  my previous post you learn that how to make a hotspot using Command Prompt. Now i'm here to tell you that how to share your internet connection on your hotspot. Here is the following steps.


Step 1- Go to Start Menu then Control Panel and click on Network and Sharing Center. Now you'll see the following window.



Here you can see that my WiFi hotspot named "WLAN" is no network access type. And you can also see that a IDEA network is internet access type from which i use internet in my PC now I'm going to share this internet to my hotspot.

Step 2- Now go to Change Adapter Setting.Here you can see your network connection. From these choose your network connection from which you use internet. My mobile broadband connection 2 so I right click on this and go to properties. 
And here you can also see my WiFi hotspot network connection named Wireless Network Connection 2.

Step 3- Now go to sharing tab in the properties window and tick on allow box and select your WiFi hotspot network connection name in the Home Networking Connection. Then click OK.


  Now your hotspot network become internet access type.

Saturday, 3 January 2015

How to Create a WiFi Hotspot Using the Command Prompt

Now-a-days we want to use our computer's fast Internet Connection. So here is the concept of Wireless Hosted Network was introduced in Windows 7 and 8. For this we require CMD(Command Prompt) with administrator privileges and a WiFi enabled PC. And you can connect to any other WiFi when Hosted Network is running. Here is the following steps to make your own Wireless Hosted Network.

Step 1- Click on Start button and type "cmd" in search box and right click on cmd. Select Run As Administrator.

Now you have command prompt running.

Step 2- Type netsh wlan show drivers in command prompt and press Enter.
It will show the output in which you see the Hosted Network Supported : Yes means that your computer supports hosted network.



Step 3- Now type netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid="hotspotname" key="hotspotpassword" in Command Prompt. This will create a hotspot.



Step 4- Now type netsh wlan start hostednetwork in Command Prompt to start the hotspot you just created.  



Step 5- Type netsh wlan show hostednetwork to check the status of your hotspot.  



Step 6-If you want to stop the hotspot then type netsh wlan stop hostednetwork in Command Prompt.