PS if you want to use cmd to stop broadcasting obv type netsh stop hostednetwork. Now you’ll be able to click the second tab at the top, “Sharing”, which will open the ICS (Intenet Connection Sharing) window: Simply tick the first box, “Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s Internet connection”, and if prompted to specify which networking connection you want to apply this to (in the field below the box you just ticked), select whatever is the blue text after the word “Connections:” to the right of the network you are trying to share (in this case “WIRELESS NETWORK 3”) in the view above. This will open a window that has the button “Properties” (somewhere near the bottom). Click on the blue text after the word “Connections:” (in this case, “LOCAL AREA CONNECTION”). Put your mouse over the info to the right of the network you are surfing. Under the heading “View your active Networks” you see two networks, though not necessarily in this order:(1) the one you’re surfing (here called NETWORK) and its info (I mean Access type, Connections, and possible HomeGroup) to the right of it, and (2) the one you’ve just set up for others (here called TEST), with its info to its right. It probably won’t look the exact same as above but I’ll talk as if it does. To clarify step 3, look at the second picture above, and compare to your own. To clarify step one, running cmd prompt in administrator mode, see here: Concise, and I really didn’t feel like downloading third-party software.įor anyone out there who’s struggling, I’ll elaborate a tad on the steps I took, which may not have been the fastest way but worked: Thanks blogsdna! This is precisely what I hoped for. Thanks to Long Zheng of istartedsomething for posting this steps. Select the interface that currently has Internet connection (like your Ethernet or normal wifi), enable “Sharing”, and then select the special “hosted” interface. Configure Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) This example creates an access-point with an SSID of “Test”,ģ. Netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=Test key=password Open a command-prompt with administrator privileges.Ĭlick on Start menu, All Programs, Accessories, right-click on Command Prompt, select “Run as administrator”). Here is simple guide on how to create/setup Virtual Wifi on Windows 7. Your Windows 7 machines can become a wifi access-point, routing the connections over Ethernet or even over a client station connection on the same wifi adapter. The software handles the connections of each adapter to ensure every adapter has an opportunity to connect to their respective networks limited by time. Virtual WiFi, abbreviated to VWiFi, is a software layer that abstracts the wireless LAN card hardware into multiple virtual adapters. Apart from visible changes like Taskbar (superbar), Aero Peek, Aero Snap in Windows 7 there several other hidden enhancement in Windows 7 like virtual Wifi.
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