Turn Your Laptop Into a Wifi Hotspot (WINDOWS XP / WINDOWS 7 / WINDOWS 8)Wifi Router
Turn Your WINDOWS 7/WINDOWS 8 Laptop Into a Wifi Hotspot (WIRELESS ROUTER)
Share your USB Modem/USB Internet Dongle to other devices using laptop or wireless PC
Connectify Hotspot is an easy-to-use software access point ( Soft AP ) or vritual router, for laptops and smartphones. With Connectify Hotspot you can share expensive airport Wi-Fi with co-workers, create a wireless hotspot in your ethernet-only hotel or dorm room, and even extend the range of your home router. Other Wi-Fi-enabled devices can see and join your Connectify hotspot just like any other Wi-Fi access point, and are kept safe and secure by password-protected WPA2 Encryption.
Step by Step Procedure:-
Connectify presents you with a very easy-to-use wizard. Click “Next”, and select the Wi-Fi device you want to use to share your Internet connection. If you only have one adapter, this screen doesn’t show up, so jump to step three!
Note: Some adapters might not allow both connecting to a Wi-Fi network (at home, work, or in public) and sharing the Internet connection at the same time. If that’s the case, you need a secondary Wi-Fi USB adapter.
3.Hit “Next”, and enter the name of the Wi-Fi hotspot that you want to create. Below is an example.
4. Then, select the “Hotspot Mode”. If your Wi-Fi connection is capable of sharing the same Wi-Fi for both the Internet connection and the Connectify hotspot feature, make sure that “Access Point, WPA2-PSK” is selected. If you want to set another security level (for compatibility reasons), then the Internet connection needs to come in from another source like a 3G card, a cable modem or a direct LAN connection.
5. Enter a password to protect your personal Wi-Fi hotspot, and hit “Next” again. The following step of the wizard is crucial; Connectify will now ask you which Internet connection you want to share. For example, let’s use the same Wi-Fi adapter.
6. That’s it! Click “Finish”, and in a few short moments, you will be able to connect all of your Wi-Fi-enabled devices to your laptop’s own hotspot.
Turn Your WINDOWS XP Laptop Into a Wifi Hotspot
First things first, set up the computer that’s connected to the modem to be the HOST. All this means is that this is the computer that will be used to share the internet, not the computer that doesn’t have internet currently. To do this, go:
WINDOWS XP
1. Start > Control Panel > Network Connections.
This should show all the connections you are or have been connected to.
DO THE STEP BY STEP PROCEDURE
Step 1: Right-Click the connection you are currently using to access the internet. Click Properties. Go to the Advanced tab and check “Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s Internet connection”.
Step 2: Click the drop down menu and select “Wireless Network Connection“. Click OK.
Step 3: Go back to Network Connections, right click Wireless Network Connection and select Properties. Click on the Wireless Networks tab.
Step 4: Click on the Advanced button, and select Computer-To-Computer (Ad-Hoc) Networks Only. Also, make sure that Automatically Connect To Non-Preferred Networks is unchecked. Close box.
Step 5: Click on the Add button, enter all the information required. Make sure Network Encryption is disabled.
You've now successfully made your computer/laptop into a HOST computer in window xp operating system, and it will now act as a router for other computers/laptops to connect.
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