How to Turn Your Laptop into Wi-Fi hotspot with Windows 8 without Any Software

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 Techfabia is here to save the day with this neat command line trick. Windows 8 comes with lots of cool features to make your PC using experience more eventful. Now you can turn your laptop into a WiFi in windows so you no more have to worry about the router or connection. This allows you to share your internet connection even if you are on a go.

Here are the steps to help you in this process 

1. Press the windows +R key to open run box, then type ncpa.cpl and press enter 

2. Then on your network connection right click on wireless network adaptor then select properties from the context menu. 

3. Now go to sharing tab and check on ‘allow other network users to connect through this computers internet connection’ and uncheck the second option ‘allow other network users to control or disable the shared internet connection’ then press OK. 

4. Now right click on the bottom left of the screen to launch an administrative command prompt 

5. To set up wireless connection we have to use a netsh command like
netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=nameofwifihotspot key=yourpassaword

Here replace nameofwifihotspot with the name you want to give to your network and your password with your desired password you want to connect with and the access point is created with WPA2- PSK (AES) encryption.

6. Now your network is ready to broadcast
netsh wlan start hostednetwork

7. Now by show command you can know things like the channel you are on and the number of people connected to your network. 

netsh wlan show hostednetwork

To stop the Wi-Fi hotspot

1. Right click on bottom left of the screen to for administration command prompt.

2. Use netsh command

Netsh wlan stop hostednetwork 

3. Press window +R for a run box, type ncpa.cpl then press enter

4. Now on network connection right click on wireless network adaptor and select properties from the context menu

5. Now on sharing tab, uncheck on ‘allow other network users to connect through this computers internet connection’ and click OK.

These are all to help you turn your windows 8 laptop into a WiFi router. You can even download software available to turn your PC into router without much complication.