How to use laptop as wifi hotspot in windows 10

How to use laptop as wifi hotspot Windows 10

Have you ever been in a situation where you just have network cable and not WiFi router to connect your smartphone or share internet with other people who need to use the internet? Sounds familiar right? Certainly, you would wonder how to use laptop as wifi hotspot in windows 10 to share the internet connection amongst all the devices and users in absence of the WiFi router.

In Microsoft Windows 10 you can make laptop wifi hotspot or turn a computer into a wireless hotspot (mobile hotspot), allowing it to share it's wired or wireless Internet connection with other wireless devices like Android or Apple smartphones. Setting up a mobile hotspot in windows 10 is very easy and does not require any third party software since this option is built in windows 10. This option allows the user to share internet connection not only using a wired connection but also can share internet wirelessly. Instruction bellow will show you how to make your laptop wifi hotspot or a computer into a WiFi hotspot without using a third party software that will not eat up memory unlike other virtual routers like Connectify etc.

How to use a laptop as wifi hotspot?

1. Open windows setting by pressing shortcut key  Win+I on your keyboard
2. On the main windows setting page click “Network & Internet”
   
3. On the Network & Internet page, click Mobile hotspot on the left-hand side
   
4. Turn on the “Share my internet connection with other devices”
   
5. If you need to change the default network name and password, click the edit button
6. On Edit network and info, change the network name and password with the desired name and password and click save
   

That’s all you have to do to enable mobile hotspot in Windows 10 to use the laptop as wifi hotspot in windows 10 or turn the computer into a wireless hotspot (mobile hotspot) without using any software. This is one of the best features Microsoft have provided built-in Windows 10 to share internet with other devices.

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