Use laptop as a Wi-Fi router

Almost all modern laptops (if they have ‘Windows 7 compatible’ label) can be used as a Wi-Fi router So you can use Internet on all your devices such as phones, tablets etc as soon as you get Internet on your laptop.

Here is a nice article how to do this.

Useful commands (should be run as administrator)

Create-WiFi.cmd ```bash

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=MyConnectionName key=MyPassword

**Start-WiFi.cmd** ```bash
netsh wlan start hostednetwork

I had the following issue with Windows 8.

The hosted network couldn’t be started. The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation.

When I installed Connectify tool it installed a driver which resolves the issue. I could then uninstall the tool.