Click OK. Your wireless hotspot should now be accessible by any nearby devices. Of course, you should replace YourPasswordHere with your own password. Not Helpful 50 Helpful Not Helpful 17 Helpful Run the command prompt as the administrator and type ' netsh wlan show hostednetwork security' and then press enter key. You will get your saved password. Not Helpful 66 Helpful My command prompt is showing an error saying that the parameter isn't correct.
What can I do about it? Reset your setting. Open cmd and type netsh winsock reset Repeat Step 1 again. Not Helpful 19 Helpful You can download files from the hosted computer if file sharing is turned on with the right credentials , or from the internet if internet sharing is turned on.
Not Helpful 18 Helpful How can I set the hosted network to be started automatically every time I start my computer? Create a batch file. Save and exit.
Not Helpful 1 Helpful I was following the steps and got an error message: "hosted network could not be started. First verify that your wireless adapter supports hosted network, as shown in step 3. Try reinstalling the driver. Under Network Adapters, identify your adapter, right click on it and click on Uninstall then click OK on confirmation.
Restart your computer and Windows will automatically detect your adapter and install required drivers. Verify again and if it is yes, then create and start hosted network. Not Helpful 36 Helpful Your connection can be used by these troublemakers to download malicious stuff even onto your laptop, and can severely slow down your internet speed as they use up the data.
Not Helpful 27 Helpful Do you have any troubleshooting tips? Whenever I do this, I get an error message that says the hotspot couldn't be activated and my resource is not in a correct state to perform the requisite action.
My driver does support creating a hotspot. In the Sharing tab, enable Sharing and save. Then try this -- it will work. In case if your LAN goes limited, then just troubleshoot it. Not Helpful 31 Helpful This free app turns your Windows machine into a virtual WiFi router that can connect up to ten devices. You can also use mHotspot as a repeater to extend your Wi-Fi signal. No router or external hardware is required apart from your existing one.
Anyone nearby can surf the Internet through your sharing. You can also prevent the use of certain Internet services e. Connectify is a paid software to create a WiFi hotspot, however, a free version with fewer features are available. With the free version you can still create and use WiFi hotspot. But anyway thanks for the info, because they said the sotware is fully free.
Check the WiFi Pineapple. Its actually a pentesting Tool but it can also be used to set up Hotspots with captive Portals really easy and surveillancing Traffic is very easy. I have a coffee shop and would love it if my clients could agree to check in to facebook to access the free wifi.
I think i understand how to do that on this page, but am i wrong? Is that somwething i can accomplish with these instructions? There is a way to do that, but it is a little more complicated than what is covered here. There are several out of the box solutions that will give you a Facebook login for your router though. I followed the process of creating wireless network using Wi-fi creater and downloaded Microsolut. But when I tried to connect it to my network, it showed this message: drive.
Please help! Hi I want to create a hot spot using my laptop without the Internet access and share some local information with devices connected to it. Indeed, I am going to create a hot spot that only show my local home page. For example, it can be used in a coffee and each connected devices can download data shared with local web page. Is it possible without router and just with a laptop? If it is possible, please guide me to solve this problem.
I want to set something like this up at my school. Do any of these options allow the administrator to view websites accessed by users? This may not be great in a web cafe, but at a school it could come in handy. Thanks for the great article.
I am trying to setup an Wifi hotspot in a mall. Please let me know. It would but XP is now far more vulnerable being used as a hotspot now support has ended. Wifi Creator has a built in Firewall, too, which will block P2P connections…. I have 1 desktop and 2 long range wireless adapters UBDo gt8. I got my Internet connection from my relatives 2 blocks away at my location. It will work but its good only for about 2 minutes.
That is correct, the laptop is the hotspot and as soon as the software is shut off that runs it, the hotspot disappears. Hi raymond nice tutorial! It is very useful tutorial. Just to know: 1 what the best all-in-one solution for building captive portal paid programs. Yes it does, I used that method successfully during testing on a laptop, you simply need to choose the wifi adapter instead of the local area connection in the guide….
Hi Raymond. Id like to use the wifi creator and arpminer, but what doesnt makes sense is that the people connecting to the solution will still need to have a password to connect to my hotspot, and then a username password on landing page as well. Yeap, I know what you mean, sadly most hotspot software requires you to use a WiFi password, so the simplest thing to do is use an easy to remember password for your users. Obviously not something too weak though…. Alternatively you could try a few of the tools in our 10 hotspot programs post: raymond.
Hi raymond, i was reading this and i was wondering if their is a way to do something like this on windows vista.. Raymond Thanks a lot for your endless help on computer and softwares.
I do take enormous advantage of it. Hey, wonderful post! Very interesting, now I know where to look when I need something like this. Brian 10 months ago. You can freely share your computer Internet connection with all WiFi-enabled devices, like phones, tables, laptops, etc.
Baidu WiFi Hotspot conveniently turns a computer into a wireless router for sharing both Internet connection and files. Whether you are using a cable network or USB dongle, you will easily share your Internet with compatible devices. The program allows you to set your preferred nickname and password and determine the people with whom you want to share the hotspot. Depending on your hardware, the software may create the free WiFi hotspot in adhoc mode, which may prevent some phones from connecting.
That stuff sounds great still having trouble on the HP laptop I bought the XfinityWifi is not that bad if you have the proper wireless adapter. HostedNetworkStarter 2. MaryFi 3. My WiFi Router 4.
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