xfinity wifi -> laptop hotspot

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xfinity wifi -> laptop hotspot

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Im not sure if you guys have this in your areas but in Denver xfinity has wifi towers that act as big wifi routers. you pay $55 for a month, no contract, with DL speeds of 15m. They only allow you to connect with one device per that $55. cool part is you can go anywhere there is a wifi tower and be connected, eg the park. I have more than one device I would like to connect for $55 a month...... here is a work-a-round.

Turn your laptop into a wifi hotspot
Open up CMD with admin priv.
check to see if your wireless card supports hotspot
netsh wlan show drivers
you are looking for "Hosted network support: yes" If it reads no, then your screwed but if yes then continue.
lets create a connection
netsh wlan set hosted network mode=allow ssid=NAME key=8charkey where NAME is the name you set for the ssid and key is the password
now start the hostednetwork
netsh wlan start hostednetwork

open the network and sharing center, click on your current internet connection - not the hosted one we just created, choose properties, click the sharing tab, check mark allow others to connect......, in the drop down just below that choose your hosted network we just created. ok out of everything.

you have now turned your laptop into a wifi hotspot.

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