Making your Laptop/PC as hotspot to share the internet

Making your Laptop/PC as hotspot in Windows Operating System

1. Click on START->cmd (Run as Administrator)
2. Check whether your laptop/PC supports wireless
3. To check type the command in the cmd as "netsh wlan show drivers"
4. If hosted network is mentioned as "Yes" then you can continue
5. Type "netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=username key=password"
6. Note the username and password can be anything as your wish
7. Then type "netsh wlan start hostednetwork" to start the service
8. Go to network and sharing center->Change adapter settings
9. You will find a wireless network as virtual miniport (which we created)
10. Then right click on the internet network (ie.,LAN or other wireless) then click properties
11. Select sharing tab and check the first check box(ie.,allow other............)
12. Select the name of the wireless virtual miniport in the dropdown Ex:wireless connection 2
13. Click OK
14. Now the network will be visible to the wireless devices.
15. If not, check whether the Wifi is enabled on your laptop/PC.