[Win7+] Software Accesspoint

Sometimes you just need to give wireless access to one of your little toys (i.e. Tablets, Smartphones, Raspberry Pis with Wifi - you name it) - but you got no wifi accesspoint with you. Starting with Windows 7, this ain't a problem anymore. You can setup an software ap in just a minute:

Enter following code into your command line interface to start an software accesspoint with the SSID WiBridge and the password mh28-dyi9-txwt:


netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid="WiBridge" key="mh28-dyi9-txwt" keyUsage=persistent
netsh wlan start hostednetwork

You can check upon your ap via:


netsh wlan show hostednetwork

And you can stop it with:


netsh wlan stop hostednetwork

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