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WIFI hotspot on Windows

This post is about creating our own WIFI hotspot on Windows Machine with out any software.

Only pre-requiest for creating WIFI hotspot is that our Windows machine should have incoming Internet via Ethernet or WIFI dongles,etc  and a WIFI Device to share as hotspot. We can create our WIFI hotspot with simple windows commands by following the below steps:

  1. Open control Panel, Go to Open Network and Sharing Center and click on Change Adapter Settings.
  2. Go to Sharing Tab of the Ethernet properties and Enable the check-box of  Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection.
  3. Open notepad,type the following commands and save as batch file with filename as "hotspot-start.bat". 
    4. netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=wifiname key=wifipassword
netsh wlan start hostednetwork
  4. Open notepad, type the following commands and save as batch file with filename as "hotspot-stop.bat".
    5. netsh wlan stop hostednetwork
  5. Now we can start WIFI hotspot by executing hotspot-start.bat file and stoping by hotspot-stop.bat file.
Now enjoy the WIFI hotspot without any software and by simple commands.
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