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Monday, October 15, 2012
[ Tutorial] Use your windows 7 to setup a Software Wireless Access Point (SoftAP)
to share your PC Internet connection without any extra hardware or software
(NOT Ad-Hoc)
I got my Nexus 7 a few days ago, and it doesn't have a 3g
modem in it. That means I cannot use a mobile internet with this device. Tried to create an ad hoc
network in my windows 7 pc, and it cannot even detect the ad hoc network. This is already a
known problem for android ICS (ice Cream Sandwich) and Jelly Bean.
After some research, I found out that ICS and JB only can detect "Infrastructure"
based WiFi signal. Ad hoc network is using another type of signal that ICS and JB cannot detect
unless you root and tweak your phone's wpa_supplicant files. In which they are known to cause
abnormal behavior of the OS itself.
So, I call myself an IT professional and a hacker. How can I surrender to such a small problem!
There must be a solution somewhere. Again, after some research, I realized that Windows 7 actually
provide 2 drivers for a network card. Basically 1 of it is what you use everyday, as a client that
receive service from an AP. The other 1, is the driver to make your wireless network card an
wireless access point itself! (SoftAP)
On Windows 7 and later, the operating system installs a virtual device if a Hosted Network capable wireless
adapter is present on the machine. This virtual device normally shows up in the Network Connections
Folder as Wireless Network Connection 2 with a Device Name of Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport adapter if
the computer has a single wireless network adapter. This virtual device is used exclusively for performing
software access point (SoftAP) connections and is not present in the list returned by the
WlanEnumInterfaces function. The lifetime of this virtual device is tied to the physical wireless adapter. If
the physical wireless adapter is disabled, this virtual device will be removed as well.
OK! SO THEY HAVE THIS HANDY FEATURE BUT WHY I NEVER SEE IT?
ANSWER: Basically there is no native GUI to do all this, so you have to use command prompt to
do all this.
Following will be the step by step guide to setup a SoftAP using your windows 7 without any
additional application. If you want to use an application to do this, there are some out there in the
market, 1 of it i think is good is called Connectify, I never tried it though so I won't comment on it.
Basically, to setup an SoftAP, then share ur PC internet to this SoftAP and then make sure devices
that connect to this SoftAP takes 5 major steps:
1) Setup the SoftAP
2) Share the Internet to SoftAP
3) Startup the services required for Internet Sharing
4) Start your SoftAP
5) make sure your device connect properly to the SoftAP
and here we GO:
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1) Setup the SoftAP
i) Run cmd.exe as administrator and enter the following command. Substitute "ssid" with the
SoftAP name u desired and "passphrase" with the password to connect to the SoftAP u desired,
both without the quotation marks. This will create the required Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport
adapter and also set up your hostednetwork.
netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid="ssid"
key="passphrase" keyUsage=persistent
Run cmd as Administrator
The command and its appropriate output if success (Click to enlarge)
Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter will shown if success (Click to enlarge)
Voila, first step is done, your SoftAP interface is now available, next up we will need to do the
Internet sharing.
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2) Share the Internet to SoftAP
i) Open network and sharing centre
ii) Click Change Adapter Setting
iii) Select the adapter that are connected to the internet, "Right Click" -> "Properties"
iv) Click on "Sharing' tab
v) Check the checkbox that says "Allow other network users to connect through this computer's
Internet connection". In the dropdownbox, select the SoftAP (In my case, Wireless Network
Connection 5)
Click to enlarge
vi) Step 2 DONE!
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_
3) Startup the services required for Internet Sharing
This step is the most technical step of all the steps
i) Run services.msc. (Type services.msc in start menu and you will have it)
ii) Find the following item in the list and start them IF THEY ARE NOT (Right click -> Start):
**If you want these services start after you restart computer, change their properties to Automatic**
-Application Layer Gateway Service
Network Connections
Network Location Awareness (NLA)
Plug And Play
Remote Access Auto Connection Manager
Remote Access Connection Manager
Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
Telephony
Windows Firewall
-**If you want these services start after you restart computer, change their properties to Automatic**
Click to enlarge
iii) After all services are started, Step 3 is done
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4) Start your SoftAP
This step is easy, the command to start/stop the hostednetwork is netsh wlan start|stop
hostednetwork and it needs to be run as adminstrator. Since you will have to start/stop the
hostednetwork every time you start/stop your computer, I would advice you to create desktop
shortcuts for there commands and set them to run as administrator.
Shortcut to start hostednetwork
Shortcut to stop the hostednetwork
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!! After run "netsh wlan start hostednetwork"
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_
5) make sure your device connect properly to the SoftAP
Now, the setup of this AP is successful. In order to connect to this SoftAP, I find it best to use static
IP, else it will have quite some connection problem. The setting is as following:
**Set this in the device you want to connect to the SoftAP**
-IP: range from 192.168.137.2 to 192.168.137.254
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Default gateway: 192.168.137.1
DNS: 8.8.8.8
alternate DNS: 8.8.4.4
-**Set this in the device you want to connect to the SoftAP**
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_
By using this method, ANY devices including android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) and Jelly Bean
(JB) devices that can't detect ad-hoc signal can now share Internet of your PC!
BY THIS POINT, THIS TUTORIAL HAS ENDED. THIS METHOD WORKS TOTALLY FINE
IN MY CASE. GOOD LUCK.
Author: Tommy Wong Label: nexus 7, SoftAP, Tutorial, Windows 7 wireless access point
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11 comments:
Crippknottick Orlando says:
at: July 18, 2013 at 7:00 AM said...
I know this is an old blog, but I just wanted to let you know you have saved the day for me.
I was trying to use ad-hoc for connecting my Nexus 7 tablet to wifi only to find out later it
was by design not to connect to it.
My RealTek cheap wifi adapter, like only $9.00 cheap, always had this option in it's GUI
software to enable SoftAP. I had no idea what is was for or why my wifi device had this
sibling virtual wifi device next to it all the time in the device manager. I disabled the virtual
wifi thinking it was some trash generic driver that Windows installed that just would not go
away without a fight. Now I know what it was used for.
While I was literally one tickbox check away from enabling SoftAP I choose to go your
route preferring less 3rd party software running on my machine. It worked like a charm.
Thank you!
Aniket Kesarkar says:
at: July 29, 2013 at 5:31 PM said...
Hey Thanks Budy..!!
Aniket Kesarkar says:
at: July 29, 2013 at 5:32 PM said...
Hey thanks Buddy !!
PeckerDunne says:
at: September 20, 2013 at 7:38 PM said...
Worked great
Sreekumar Sasi says:
at: December 29, 2013 at 12:46 PM said...
not applicable to windows phone :(
Viet Nguyen says:
at: January 4, 2014 at 1:30 PM said...
I did step one and the wifi mini port did not show up.
I typed everything in CMD as admin and got the same results as you. What am doing
wrong?
David Al-Hajjar says:
at: February 6, 2014 at 11:35 AM said...
Fantastic tutorial!! However, the infra is broadcasted from the same Wifi adapter as where
the internet connection is. I have another spare internal Wifi apapter, how do I have have
that adapter broadcasting the AP, so the other can be dedicated entirely on the internet
connection. Thanks.
Tommy Wong says:
at: February 18, 2014 at 11:26 PM said...
@Viet Nguyen, pretty sure this still works..I have no idea what went wrong with your case
w/o further technical info
@David, I'm pretty sure when you are typing the command in cmd, you can specified which
wireless card you want to enable the miniport. After that you can connect to the wifi using
the 1 that do not have mini port, bridge the connection to the wifi card that have the mini
port enabled, not 100% sure that will work, but it seems logical to me. You can try that out.
TevitaVaka says:
at: April 7, 2014 at 3:31 PM said...
please help, I have done all the steps and they are all ok except the last step by starting the
softAP when i input the command it says "The hosted network couldn't be started, A device
attached to the system is not functioning"
Ryno Terblanche says:
at: April 27, 2014 at 10:52 PM said...
Great work! Thanks dude!
perlhaqr says:
at: November 25, 2014 at 10:52 PM said...
Worked for me too. Thanks for the tutorial! Well written and detailed.
(I'm a computer jock too, but from the Unix side of the fence, so I need instructions like this
any time I want to do anything not completely basic under Windows. :D )
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