Windows Operating System Issue

Asked By Rebecca Ashley 0 points N/A Posted on - 08/10/2019

Though my laptop’s operating system version is Windows 8.1, it was not provided with hotspot by default. So how did I solve this problem was a challenge. I described the detailed procedure for setting up a hotspot by myself on my laptop. As I used to work with the UNIX operating system, I used my knowledge in command prompt and some of the internet guidance here.

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Answered By Burch Patterson 0 points N/A #323904

Windows Operating System Issue

After trying many settings on my laptop, I couldn’t set up a hotspot. Then by running command prompt as an administrator, I wrote a command “netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=username key=password”. After pressing enter, I again wrote a command “netsh wlan start hostednetwork”. Then hotspot in my laptop got activated. The username was the same as what I typed in place of the username in the above command and so the password.

After that, in the adapter settings, which are in control panel, I went through the sharing option, in which the internet sharing located in a client for Microsoft networks, an option called “allow other networks to connect to this computer” was selected. Then the hotspot got activated. Then to stop hotspot in my laptop, I wrote a command “netsh wlan stop hostednetwork”.

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