How to Turn Your Windows 8 or higher into a WiFi Hotspot

How to Turn Your Windows 8 or higher into a WiFi Hotspot

Internet has become a familiar and indispensable to modern life demands of us today. Using your PC or Laptop would be some time you need to share your connection to other wireless devices around such as smartphones or tablets using Android or iOS. Currently there are many ways that can help you make from Laptop or PC Wifi found. You can use softwares, buy a wireless transmitter but they are usually complicated to setup.

However there is another way without software and the only thing you need is your operating system is Windows 8 or higher.

Below is the instructions of how to turn your Windows 8 or higher to a WirelessWiFi hotspot:

Step 1: First you need to open the Command Prompt dialog box (CMD) as Administrator by selecting the right mouse button on the bottom left of the screen on Windows 8 >> Select Command Prompt (Admin)

Step 2: Enter the following command and then press Enter

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=wifi-window8 key=12346789

SSID: The name of the Wi-Fi hotspot. In this example the wifi-window8
Key: Is the Wifi password. In this example is 12346789

Enter and you have your WiFi hotspot created. Then enter the following commands to enter and to be able to share your Internet from your PC or Laptop.

netsh wlan start hostednetwork

Done! Now connect your device to this wifi-window8 and enjoy.

To be easier, you can save the following command in Word or text file:

Turn WiFi hotspot on:

netsh wlan start hostednetwork

Check WiFi information:

netsh wlan show hostednetwork

Turn WiFi hotspot off:

netsh wlan stop hostednetwork

Create wifi hotspot:

netsh wlan set mode = allow ssid = hostednetwork ten-window8 key = 12345678

Remove WiFi hotspot:

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode = Disallow ssid = ten-window8 key = 12345678