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Hey Friends, last week my friend told me that he want to use his
laptop as wifi or hotspot,but he don’t know how to do that,so he ask me
to create a virtual wifi using his laptop.I gave him a solution for that and now am going to share that with you
This article will help you convert your Windows XP and 7 based laptop in a Wireless HotSpot.Once you setup your laptop as HotSpot then you do not need a router, switch, hub, etc… to form a network, in fact other laptops or PC’s can connect or access the internet through this newly created HotSpot.you can use this with your wifi enabled smartphone,PSP ,tablets,PDA and other devices.
Requirement to Create a virtual HotSpot?
1. Active Cable Internet2. Laptop
3. WiFi on Laptop
Once you have all the above things mentioned, you are all set to follow the steps:
How to create or setup wifi HotSpot on Windows 7:
1. Got to Control Panel2. Click on “Network and Sharing Centre”
3. Under Tasks choose “Setup New Connection”
4. Wireless “Ad-hoc network”
5. Now type in a “Network Name”
6. Choose “WEP” password if you don’t want to share the connection with the entire world
7. Click “Internet connection sharing”
8. Done!
Now a WiFi enabled device will be able to connect to the network you have just created.
Lets setup a wifi HotSpot on a Windows XP PC:
1. Go into Control panel2. Open “Network Connections”
3. Right click on “Wireless Connection” and click on “Properties”
4. Click on the “Wireless Networks” tab and select the check-box which says “Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings”
5. Under “Prefered networks” click “Add”
6. Type a name in “Network name” text box
7. Select “Shared” from the options under “Network Authentication”
8. Under Data encryption select “WEP” and type in your password in “Network Key” field and now click “OK”
9. Now the new HotSpot should show in the list of preferred networks.
10. Click on the “Advance” button and select “Computer-to-computer (ad hoc) networks only” and press close
11. Hit “OK”, we are done with the wireless connection properties
One more step, we have to change something in the wired connection setting so that it knows that it has to share connection with the computers accessing our HotSpot.(both in XP & 7)
1. Go to local Area Connections, right click it and select properties
2. Go to the “Advanced” tab and under Internet Connection Sharing check the box which says “Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s internet connection” and make sure the box under that is NOT selected so that no one can disable the network remotely.
3. Hit “OK”
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HAVE A GREAT DAY!
Thanks for the solution. Also tell your friend I said thank you because without him asking you, this post wouldn't exist!
ReplyDeleteI tried this on my ultrabook laptop for school and my friends are loving it. We use to share a laptop but now with the hotspot, we can go on at the same time.
sure Buddy i will tell him.
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