Create ad hoc and Connect with Wi-Fi Hotspot in Windows 8

 
Apart from the Start Orb and the classic Start Menu that are missing in Windows 8, the ability to create an Ad Hoc wireless network to share files and internet connections is also absent.

Also See : How to set up Ad Hoc Wireless network on Windows 7

The purpose of this tutorial is to show you how to set up your wireless network as Wi-Fi Hotspot on your Windows 8 computer.

How to create Wi – Fi Hotspot in Windows 8.

• The First thing is to check if your device support Ad Hoc connections or not. To check, Open Command prompt in Administrator Mode. (Press Windows Key + X, then select Command Prompt with Admin).
• Type this command;

          netsh wlan show drivers

• Look out for “Hosted Network Support”. If Yes, you are good to continue. Otherwise, you’ll have you update your wireless device driver.

• Now to configure the wireless network, type this command and press enter when done; netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=networkname key=password

Change the network name to your desire and set your password. Remember your password, you will surely need when necessary.
You’ve successfully created a hosted network on your computer. Now to start your newly set Wi – Fi 
Hotspot, type this command.netsh wlan start hostednetwork
To stop the set up hosted network, just change “start” in the above command to “stop”.
You can see your newly created hosted network in Control Panel under the Network and Sharing Centre tab.

If you want  to share files with your newly created network, then you must read this; Use wireless network to transfer files from one computer to another
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