If your NIC supports virtualization, you’re good to go. In case, it says No, you will need to update your network adapter’s driver. Simply, run the following command to view Hosted network supported status. Now, first you need to check weather your network interface supports virtualization or not. In order to create an ad hoc connection in Windows 8 using netsh utility, run CMD with administrative privileges’ just type cmd on Start Screen, right-click it and select Run as administrator. So, if your NIC supports wireless hostednetwork / virtualization feature, then you can create an ad hoc wireless connection and turn your PC into Wi-Fi hotspot.Īs stated earlier, both Windows 7 and Windows 8 natively support configuring ad hoc wireless connection using the netsh commands. Since it plays a vital role in creating a virtual wireless adapter, it’s used by a majority of virtual Wi-Fi hotspot applications, such as Virtual WiFi Router, MyPublicWiFi, Marfi etc. The Hosted Network is WLAN feature, which is designed to implement virtualization of physical network adapter. Using netsh wlan command, one can easily use hosted network (virtualization) feature to create a virtual wireless connection. The support for configuring WLAN using netsh was first introduced in Windows Vista, and it’s now available in Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows 8. The Network Shell ( netsh) utility is basically developed to let users configure network devices in both client and server editions of Windows.
In this post, we will look at some tools that let you easily create and manage ad-hoc connections in Windows 8.
Even though Windows 8 comes with ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) feature to allow devices to connect to yours PC internet connection, it doesn’t allow creating a wireless network connection to share the internet. This allows users to use router’s default or specified DNS server address to easily connect to internet. Windows 7 ad hoc connection feature does nothing except creating a shared connection with separate IP address to register the device on the virtual network. If you’re a power users, you might’ve noticed that Windows 8 doesn’t include an option to create and setup ad hoc network connection to share files and internet with Wi-Fi enabled computers and devices. Apart from Start Orb and classic Start Menu, what most Windows 7 users, who decided to take Windows 8 for a spin, miss in Windows 8 is ability to create ad-hoc network.
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