How to make wifi hotspot in windows 10

Demonstrated 2 ways to create wifi hotspot in windows 10, one is using CMD method and other one is directly through windows 10 hotspot creation tool under network settings.

For ease i have also mentioned the steps to troubleshoot the issue if you face any problem in hotspot creation on your windows 10

While the steps in the video are self explanatory but for ease i am listing down the command that you need to enter:

With CMD:

Check whether your computer system supports wifi hotspot feature: netsh wlan show drivers

Set wifi ssid and passkey for new hotspot: netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=Technofare key=Password ”.
Both ssid and passkey should be minimum 8 digits long, can be numbers or alphabets or mix of both.
start the created host network type : netsh wlan start hostednetwork

Before moving to share the Wired or Wireless connection, check the virtual hotspot properties by typing the third command

netsh wlan show hostednetwork
After this last step is to open Run then enter the "ncpa.cpl" to configure the network settings.




Note: If you wish you stop the share network then type “netsh wlan stop hostednetwork”.

Trouble shooting..

Device manager - show hidden devices - network adapters - microsoft hosted network virtual adapter right click and enable it if it is not enabled… ( enable service)...

If you don’t get hosted network drivers then unintstall all the drivers and reinstall them,,,

Without CMD:

Go to start menu then click on Setting icon.
Here click on Network & Internet then from the left side navigation click on Mobile Hotspot.
Now turn on option Share my internet connection with other devices under the Mobile Hotspot

Note: Max number of 8 devices can be connected with the system.

Both the methods work well and are easy to use. Should you face any issue or have any query in creating the wifi hotspot in windows 10, please feel free to write your query in comments below.

Thanks for your time.