Use laptop as access point windows 7

You need to make the connection first, or you will not be able to access the sharing options for the connection. This tab will not appear unless both devices are connected. Reply with the status of the issue and we will be glad to offer our assistance.

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If you have Windows Vista or XP, a different procedure may work instead. A hint: search the web for how to create an ad-hoc connection for the specific version of Windows that you have.

The first thing to do is to check that your Wi-Fi network adapter supports the so called Hosted Network mode. To do that, open Windows command prompt and enter the following command:. Don't worry, you don't need to know what hosted network is, all you need to do is find that line. If you see it, you are good to go.

If not, then your Wi-Fi network adapter does not support this feature, sorry. Now, let's configure your laptop to offer its own Wi-Fi access point, to which you could connect your other Wi-Fi devices. First, decide on the name of the wireless network your laptop would create. It could be nearly anything.

In the example below, we chose the name MyLaptopWiFi. Second, decide on the password that you would need to enter to connect your other devices to this access point. We chose Orange as the password; you can obviously choose something else. To actually create the access point, open the command prompt in the Administrator mode.

To do that on Windows 10, you could press the Win-X keys and select Command prompt Admin from the menu. Then, enter the following two commands into the command prompt:. This creates the access point, but it's not fully operational yet: you need to tell Windows that you want to share your actual Internet connection with the access point you've just created. There, click on the connection that provides the actual connection to the Internet which could be your Wi-Fi connection or the Ethernet line, depending how you have connected to the Internet.

Check the Allow other users to connect through this computer's Internet connection box, and also select Local area connection in the Home networking connection list. This should make your laptop to work as a Wi-Fi access point. Connect to it, as usual, entering the password you have set up, and your device should now be connected to the Internet via the laptop. Pretty neat, huh? Take control of your files and folders with AB Commander file manager for Windows 11, 10, 8.

User rating: 4. Some people on the web speculated that this was because of missing driver support even though Virtual WiFi functionality is a requirement for WLAN drivers under the Windows 7 certification logo. This did not fit. I was never prompted for installing uncertified drivers. As a matter of fact I did not have to install any drivers at all. Everything was done by Windows 7 automatically. I decided to investigate, and found the solution.

Basically there is no native GUI to do all this, so you have to use command prompt to do all this.