There are a lot of resources to convert your windows 7 machine to a wifi hot spot on the internet.
I am just trying to summarize some of the problems I faced and some of the things I tried in order to
make it into a hot spot.
I hope it can be of use to some one.
There are some applications that convert your laptop to a hot spot. One such application is the virtual router software. Its pretty simple with a gui, few steps and we have a hot spot.
Heres a link for the same http://virtualrouter.codeplex.com/
The second method is through the terminal or command prompt
For that we need to create a virtual miniport adapter.
Once the adapter is done a few commands and the laptop is a wifi hot spot.
Go to the command prompt.
Make sure you run it with administrator privileges or else it will not work.
Type the command
netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=urname key=password
This should make the adapter.
Make sure that the adapter is enabled if you have disabled it previously
Make sure to enable wireless networking in the laptop before the next command
type in
netsh wlan start hostednetwork
this should give a message saying "the hostednetwork has started" in the command prompt.
To stop the hostednetwork type in
netsh wlan stop hostednetwork
and you should get a message saying the "the hostednetwork has stopped"
To share internet connection with the network that you set you, perform the following steps.
Open the networking control panel
Go to the adapter currently connected to the internet.
Go in properties open sharing tabs
once the sharing tab is opened .
select the microsoft virutal adapter from the drop down menu.
If sharing is enabled on some other adapter you will get a warning and on accepting the sharing properties should change to your current network
Walla you have a wifi hotspot
cheers
I am just trying to summarize some of the problems I faced and some of the things I tried in order to
make it into a hot spot.
I hope it can be of use to some one.
There are some applications that convert your laptop to a hot spot. One such application is the virtual router software. Its pretty simple with a gui, few steps and we have a hot spot.
Heres a link for the same http://virtualrouter.codeplex.com/
The second method is through the terminal or command prompt
For that we need to create a virtual miniport adapter.
Once the adapter is done a few commands and the laptop is a wifi hot spot.
Go to the command prompt.
Make sure you run it with administrator privileges or else it will not work.
Type the command
netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=urname key=password
This should make the adapter.
Make sure that the adapter is enabled if you have disabled it previously
Make sure to enable wireless networking in the laptop before the next command
type in
netsh wlan start hostednetwork
this should give a message saying "the hostednetwork has started" in the command prompt.
To stop the hostednetwork type in
netsh wlan stop hostednetwork
and you should get a message saying the "the hostednetwork has stopped"
To share internet connection with the network that you set you, perform the following steps.
Open the networking control panel
Go to the adapter currently connected to the internet.
Go in properties open sharing tabs
once the sharing tab is opened .
select the microsoft virutal adapter from the drop down menu.
If sharing is enabled on some other adapter you will get a warning and on accepting the sharing properties should change to your current network
Walla you have a wifi hotspot
cheers
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