How to convert your laptop into a Wireless HotSpot?
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This article will help you convert your Windows XP and Vista based laptop in a Wireless HotSpot. One you setup your laptop as HotSpot then you do not need a router, switch, hub, etc… to form a network, in fact other laptops or PC’s can connect or access the internet through this newly created HotSpot
What do I need to set a HotSpot?
- Active Cable Internet
- Laptop
- WiFi on Laptop
- Wired net connection
Once you have all the above things mentioned, you are all set to follow the steps:
How to setup HotSpot on Windows Vista:
- Got to Control Panel
- Click on “Network and Sharing Centre”
- Under Tasks choose “Setup New Connection”
- Wireless “Ad-hoc network”
- Now type in a “Network Name”
- Choose “WEP” password if you don’t want to share the connection with the entire world
- Click “Internet connection sharing”
- Done!
Now a WiFi enabled machine will be able to connect to the network you have just setup with the WEP password
Lets setup a HotSpot on a Windows XP machine:
- Go into Control panel
- Open “Network Connections”
- Right click on "Wireless Connection" and click on "Properties"
- Click on the "Wireless Networks" tab and select the check-box which says “Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings”
- Under “Prefered networks” click “Add”
- Type a name in “Network name” text box
- Select “Shared” from the options under “Network Authentication”
- Under Data encryption select “WEP” and type in your password in “Network Key” field and now click "OK"
- Now the new HotSpot should show in the list of preferred networks.
- Click on the “Advance” button and select “Computer-to-computer (ad hoc) networks only" and press close
- Hit “OK”, we are done with the wireless connection properties
One more step, we have to change something in the wired connection setting so that it knows that it has to share connection with the computers accessing our HotSpot.
- Go to local Area Connections, right click it and select properties
- Go to the “Advanced” tab and under Internet Connection Sharing check the box which says “Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s internet connection” and make sure the box under that is NOT selected so that no one can disable the network remotely.
- Hit “OK”
I hope this helps setting up a wireless connection without a WiFi router. Have FuN!
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Comments
i have windows vista ... sony vaio ... i followed all the steps .. my iphone shows the wifi connection but when i try and join it isnt able to ... pls help
thanks
Here's one for ya...
WinXP Pro SP3, on board wifi card, Mobile Broadband card from Sprint(set to NDIS to emulate a wired LAN.
I want to know if there is a way, w/o having to add anymore hardware, to make my laptop a wifi hotspot using the Mobile Broadband Card instead of an Ethernet connection.
Hi, ive done this on XP and Vista but every time i turn off my laptop all the settings go away and i can no longer use the network for devices like iphones
any help?
I have the same problem with "Michael Rainwater on January 9, 2008 @ 12:56 pm"
There was a message " at least .... not applied successfully..." after I changed the property and clicked the "OK" button.
I am the local admin, but it seems I don't have the right to change the wireless configuration. During the working time, I am using the domain user in the office environment, but at home, I would like to use wireless either.
Please help me on this point. Thanks in advance.
Hi
i want to ask u if i can convert my notebook to wirless router and control a internet in other pc in my network??
thank u
hello i did everything and then my pc found the network but i want my psp to detect it.how can i do that
Faltaron Dos pasos:
El primero es que cuando esten especificando la red deben marcar la opcion que dice "esto es una red adhoc"
El segundo es que cuando tengan toda la configuracion lista deben conectarse a la red inalambrica que acaban de crear, incluso la computadora que servira de hotspot
Hice todo eso y estoy navegando en dos netbooks sin problema
Hi,
I do have laptop with wifi feature and currently internet working with wired i tried to make add new Add-hoc network and it is connect but i am tried to connect my blackberry i did not find the network name on my phone but in wireless network connction my network is connect but says"waiting for user to connect"
Need your help
Regards,
Faruk
My laptop has WI-FI feature and working with wired. I tried to make add new Add-hoc network and it is connect but I'm tried to connect my BlackJack. I did not find the network name on my phone but in wireless network connection my network is connect, but says "waiting for user to connect". What is wrong?
I followed the instructions above. But when I selected the last option "Computer-to-computer (ad hoc) networks only" and then click "OK" on the Wireless Network Connection Properties, I get the following error:
"At least one of your changes was not applied successfully to the wireless configuration"
I am admin on my laptop. Is there some registry setting (policy) that my IT department may have installed to keep this from working?
Thanks for the great guide.