Your travelling…. and you want to share your mobile broadband connection over WiFi. What can you do…?

Following are the options available…

1) Using a MiFi router. There are various models and types, Google it if you want more information.

2) If you have an Android or an Apple Device (iOS), you already have it; assuming that you have your cellular/mobile data connection connected.

• Android portable Wi-Fi hotspot -  Android Help.
• iOS – Personal Hotspot - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4517

3) If you don’t have any of these still there is a way, as long as you have a windows and a PC with a WiFi adapter. (Disadvantage of this method is that you can only connect windows computers)

• Connect your Mobile Broadband Connection
• Go to; Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center
• Create the Ad-Hoc Connection
• Turn on Internet Connection Sharing
• Ask others to connect to the defined WiFi Connection Name (In the below video it’s VENURA9.COM)
• Following video explains how it is done;

4) If you are more of a techie you can have a fully fledged WiFi network on your PC. This way you are not restrcited to a network where only the windows users can connect.

• Run the “cmd.exe” as the administrator

  C:\Windows\system32>
  

• Run the following commands to setup the network (Network SSID is VENURA and the password is 12345678):

  netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow "ssid=VENURA" "key=12345678" KeyUsage=persistent
  

• To Start:

  netsh wlan start hostednetwork
  

• To Stop:

  netsh wlan stop hostednetwork
  

• Go to: Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network Connections
• Go to the properties of the connection you want to share, this can be a mobile broadband connection or even a wired connection
• Select the sharing tab and tick “Allow other network users to connect through this computers internet connection”
• From the drop down select “Wireless Network Connection 2″ (Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter)
• Press OK
• Other PCs, MACs and Phones will see a network named “VENURA” and they can connect using the password “12345678“

References:

• http://www.ishanarora.com/2009/07/29/windows-7-as-a-wireless-access-point/
• http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3849841/How-to-Create-Wireless-Hosted-Networks-in-Windows-7.htm