HOW TO TURN YOUR LAPTOP INTO A WIRELESS ACCESS POINT ROUTER

Technology is fast advancing and a lot of
companies are starting to sell portable 3G routers
that you can take with you when you go out, but
what happens when you forget... Luckily, is here to save the day with this neat
command line trick.

Creating Your Own WI-FI Hotspot
Press the Windows + R key combination to bring up
a run box, type ncpa.cpl and hit enter.

When your network connections open right-click on
your Wireless network adapter and select
properties from the context menu.

Now switch over to the Sharing tab and allow other
devices to use your machines internet by selecting
the first checkbox and then unchecking the second
before clicking on the OK button.

Now right-click in the bottom left of your screen, to
launch an administrative command prompt.
The first thing we need to do is set up the wireless
network, this is done using the netsh command like
so: netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow
ssid="How-To Geek" key="Pa$$w0rd"
Where ssid is the name of your network and key is
the password you want users to connect with, its
also worth mentioning that the access point is
created with WPA2-PSK (AES) encryption.
Now we are ready to start broadcasting our
network: netsh wlan start hostednetwork

The last command you will need to know is the
show command, it will tell you things like the
channel you are on as well as the number of clients
connected to your network: netsh wlan start hostednetwork.