How to turn your pc in a WiFi hotspot ?

Enabling Wi-Fi hotspot in window 8 is really a hard option if you are a gui user and find it hard to EXPLORE with the core windows options. In windows seven there was an option to create the Wi-Fi hotspot but it’s not the case with the Windows 8. In Windows 8 you will need cmd to create a hotspot. Later you will share your laptop internet connection with the hotspot through the windows Network and sharing cente.

CREATING WiFi HOTSPOT ?

things you will need are:

A Working Internet Connection (Either Dial Up Connection or Else Lan Internet Connection)
A Built In or External Wifi adapter which supports the sharing ability for internet connection

check if your WiFi card supports sharing:

Let’s find out that whether your wifi card supports sharing or not for this go to search and open up CMD in the administrator mod. For opening CMD in administrator mode you need to right click it and then open the cmd in “Administrator Mode“.
type " netsh wlan show drivers "
if it says " hosted network supported : yes " then it means you can go ahead and follow other sptep to create a WiFi hotspot.

Creating the WiFi hotspot:

open cmd as administrator
type the fillowing command and hit enter " netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=nameofhotspot key=password "
The above is the command is to create the hotspot. Replace “nameOfwifiHotspot” with the desired network name and replace “password” with the desired password which will be used by the others to connect to the hotspot.and the password should be between 8 t0 60 characters.
your creating , starting and stopping the hotspot should look like this.

starting the hotspot:

don't close the cmd after doing the prevous step
type " netsh wlan start hosted network " to start the wifi hotspot

SHARING INTERNET CONNECTION WITH WINDOWS 8 SHARING CENTER:

open search and type " network and sharing center "
open it
click change adapter settings on upper left panel
Here you will see your created hotspot connection plus the connection which you want to be shared with the hotspot for the internet sharing. The created hotspot connection has the star with the name. You need to open the properties of the connection which you want to be shared with the hotspot.
right click on your connection
switch to sharing tab
check sharing box