Tutorial: How to Create Ad Hoc WiFi Hotspot In Windows 10, Details Below

Using Windows 10 – or indeed many versions of Windows, it’s just nice and easy now – you can create an Ad hoc WiFi network from your computer, allowing anything connected to that network to share the computer’s Internet connection. What you’re doing is effectively turning your computer into an expensive WiFi access point. Isn’t technology great?

Create Ad Hoc WiFi Hotspot In Windows 10

We’re going to cover the setup method here, and it’s only really a case of a couple of commands followed by some mouse clicking. If you find yourself in need of a quick and dirty WiFi connection and have a Windows 10 machine and an Ethernet connection, then this may just save your day.
Here’s what you need to do.
Step 1: Step 1: Right click on Start button or press the Windows + X keys to open the power user settings panel, and launch Command Prompt (Admin) to get started.
Create Ad Hoc WiFi Hotspot In Windows 10

Step 2: Enter the following command, hitting the Enter / Return key at the end. To name your Ad hoc connection, simply replace “adhocname” with a name of your choice, and to change the password, replace “password” with one of your choice::
netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=adhocname key=password
Create Ad Hoc WiFi Hotspot In Windows 10

Step 3: Enter this one last command and hit the Enter / Return key:
netsh wlan start hostednetwork
Create Ad Hoc WiFi Hotspot In Windows 10

Step 4: Open the “View network connections” window, which can be found easily by searching for it using search bar in the Taskbar.
Create Ad Hoc WiFi Hotspot In Windows 10

Step 5: Right-click your Ethernet connection and select Properties and switch to the Sharing tab.
Create Ad Hoc WiFi Hotspot In Windows 10

Step 6: Check the “Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s Internet connection” option, and choose the newly created WiFi connection from the drop down list located under “Home networking connection”.
Create Ad Hoc WiFi Hotspot In Windows 10

You can now connect to your newly created WiFi access point using whatever smartphone, tablet or computer you had in mind. You will also be able to see the new connection as active in Network and Sharing Center. See, that wasn’t too difficult now, was it?
Create Ad Hoc WiFi Hotspot In Windows 10

If you wish to disable the hotspot at any given time, simply enter the following command in Command Prompt with Administrator privileges and hit Enter:
netsh wlan stop hostednetwork

Source: Redmond Pie

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