How to make your Computer/Laptop a Wifi Hotspot on Windows 8/7 and Linux and share Internet with others

Hi Guys,

Many times there is situation that you want to share your internet with your friends, on Android sharing internet is not a very hard job, one just has to open wifi-hotspot and then other person can access internet through that hotspot. But I think that most of us are unaware of how to create that same(as on android) internet sharing wifi hotspot.

Difficulty Level: Very Easy

Things Required: Your Laptop with wifi support

Sharing Internet on Linux

In Linux, it’s very easy to share internet, just a two step process.

Step 1:Go to wifi-setting on your right of your taskbar

Step 2:Click on use as Hotspot and Wifi Hotspot will be created. It will display the password of wifi hotspot created, use that password to connect to the create hotspot.

 

Sharing Internet on Windows 8 and 7

Step 1: First open command prompt

Press “Windows” key, and then type cmd, right click it and select Run as Administrator(this is very important otherwise you won’t create your hotshot)

 Step 2:Check whether your Wifi supports Hotshot capability

Write the following command on cmd:

netsh wlan show drivers

Check whether your wifi has hotspot support, In todays computer all of them have this capability.

Step 3:Write following commandon cmd to create a wifi hotspot

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=<network name> key=<passkey>
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