hello all want to turn your laptop to a WiFi hotpsot. you can call it
like Software AP, Soft AP, Virtual Access Point(VAP), virtual router.
From Windows 7 onwards we can turn the WiFi adapter in the laptop or PC
to work like an Access Point. So after turning on this feature your
laptop/PC will act as an WiFi Access Point so that laptop/PC with wifi
adapter can connect to it for browsing or you can do normal PC
connectivity for data sharing
For this we need to
configure the settings using netsh using administrator privilege and
enable the internet connection for the interface which u want to share.
Follow the below steps to achieve it
1) Select the network interface properties , say if you want to share the data card , select as shown below
2) Go to the Sharing tab and in the Internet Connection Sharing
check the checkbox
Allow other network users to connect through this computers Internet connection as shown in the below figure
3)
Now open the command prompt in administrator privilege, For this you
can right click on the command prompt in the start menu right click on
it and press Run as administrator
4) Now in the command prompt type the below two commands
netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=test key=password
netsh wlan start hostednetwork
You can see the output for the commands typed
After
this, you laptop/PC is ready as an WiFi Access Point (AP), and others
can connect to it for internet browsing or transferring data between the
computers