{"id":347,"date":"2012-12-29T00:25:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T18:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prasadk.com\/my-press\/?p=347"},"modified":"2012-12-29T00:27:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T18:57:42","slug":"windows-7-fo-tethering-wifi-act-as-a-wifi-hotspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prasadk.com\/my-press\/windows-7-fo-tethering-wifi-act-as-a-wifi-hotspot\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 for Tethering WiFi (act as a WiFi hotspot)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Option in Windows 7 for Tethering WiFi (act as a WiFi hotspot) to connect your other devices like mobile \/ tablets to internet<\/h4>\n<div>\n<p>A detailed step-by-step to setup tethering in Windows 7 without any 3rd party software:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>From admin command prompt type:\n<pre><code>netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=mywifinetwork key=mysecretkey\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Enable new virtual Wi-Fi adapter (it might be disabled upon creation)<\/li>\n<li>From admin command prompt type:\n<pre><code>netsh wlan start hostednetwork\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>From current internet conection adapter share (ICS) to the virtual adapter<\/li>\n<li>Connect from wireless client to virtual SSID. Wi-Fi client gets an auto IP and you&#8217;re good to go.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>After host computer restart you only need to repeat steps 3 &amp; 5 to be up and running.<\/p>\n<h4>As a alternate (If facing any issues) simply you can download Virtual WiFi Router application<\/h4>\n<p>CNET URL : <a href=\"http:\/\/download.cnet.com\/Virtual-WiFi-Router\/3000-2651_4-75599199.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/download.cnet.com\/Virtual-WiFi-Router\/3000-2651_4-75599199.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Direct URL : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualwifirouter.com\/p\/downlooad.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.virtualwifirouter.com\/p\/downlooad.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Option in Windows 7 for Tethering WiFi (act as a WiFi hotspot) to connect your other devices like mobile \/ tablets to internet A detailed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadk.com\/my-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadk.com\/my-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadk.com\/my-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadk.com\/my-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadk.com\/my-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadk.com\/my-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadk.com\/my-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadk.com\/my-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadk.com\/my-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadk.com\/my-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}