Wednesday, 11 June 2014

How To Create Portable Wifi Hotspot in Windows 8 Using CMD


Create a Portable Wifi Hotspot in Windows 8 using CMD
Many a times u need to create a hotspot from your laptop for playing Multiplayer Games or using your brodbands internet in mobile.

You cannot create a hotspot directly in Windows 8.
For that you need to use a software called Connectify.
In this tutorial i will teach you to create a portable hotspot without using any software and with the help of CMD(Command Prompt).

Steps:

  • Open CMD as a Administrator.
  • Now type the following command   netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=yourname key=password
  • replace yourname with the name you want to keep for your hotspot and password with your desired password. Password should be of minimum 8 characters.
  • Now your Hotspot is created. To start your hotspot type the folllowing command netsh wlan start hostednetwork
  • To stop your Hotspot type the following command netsh wlan stop hostednetwork

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