How to create Wi-Fi Hotspot using command line in Windows

 

Wifi Hotpot

 Step1: 

Open the command prompt admin. In case of Windows 8 and above you can do this by pressing “Windows logo + x ” and select the power shell or command promt (Admin) as shown in the screenshot below.

 

 

Step2:

At first you had to check whether your wifi adapter supports hosted network mode or not.

So type the command “netsh wlan show drivers” and press enter. If it is Yes then you can create a hotspot, otherwise you have to upgrade your wifi adapter or drivers.

 

Step3:

Considering that your adapter has support for hosted network mode, type the command

netsh wlan set hostednetwork  mode=allow ssid=name_of_your_choice  key = your_password

as on the frist window below. Here type the name of your choice in place of  ”name-of-hotspot” and your password in place of “your-password-key

 

Step4:

Next type the command “netsh wlan show hostednetwork” and press enter. You can see that status is not started for the hotspot.

 

 

Step5:

Next Type the command “netsh wlan start hosted network "  to start the hotspot and press enter.

 

Step6:

To stop the hotspot you just have to type Stop instead of Start in the above command.

That is  ”netsh wlan stop hosted network"

 

Step 6:

Now for the last step all you have to do after creating a hotspot is ,

go to the change adapter settings and select the network(Ethernet) you want to share and click on it’s properties and select the sharing tab and enable the option to share your internet with others.

Now that your Wi-Fi hotspot is created , enjoy the seamless browsing with your other devices.