Share Internet Connection Wirelessly

These are easy steps on how to manually setup your computer to share your internet connection wirelessly. All you need is a desktop computer or a laptop with wireless adapter and a Windows 7 Operating System (note: does not work with Windows 7 Starter edition).

1. First let us enable ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) on WiFi adapter. 
In order to do this press Start, on the search bar type "ncpa.cpl" and press enter.

List of your wireless adapter should appear. 

2. Right click on your wireless adapter and click Properties.

on Wireless Network Connection Properties click on Sharing Tab
check the option "Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection"

and press OK. 

A new Network Connection (Miscrosoft Virtual Wifi Miniport Adapter) will be created.

Right click this new Network Connection and choose Enable. 

3. Right click your wireless adapter again and click Properties.
On sharing tab select this newly created Network Connection on Home networking connection drop down box.

4. Now click Start and search for "Command Prompt"
Right click Command Prompt and choose Run as administrator.

Now on the Command Prompt type the following...

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=xxxx key=xxxx

Note: Replace SSID (whatever you like to name your shared network)
and key (must be at least 8 characters - this will serve as password for the network)

After that, type

netsh wlan start hostednetwork

and press Enter.

"The hosted network started." message will appear on the Terminal.

Now get a Wi-Fi based device and scan for your newly created Network Connection and connect to it.

If you want to close the connection just type the following on the Command Prompt (again Run as administrator).

netsh wlan stop hostednetwork

and press Enter.

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