0 Turn your laptop into a wireless access point

Here is a guide to those laptop users at home who want to share their internet connection with their friends if they don't have a wireless router. You can turn your laptop into a wireless computer with this simple trick...

This works with both Mac and windows PC.

 First go to control panel >  network and internet > network connections.

Make the wireless to work as the router, we need to change it to AD-HOC mode.

To do that, right click on the wireless network connection and select properties.

After selecting properties, select the wireless networks tab. click on advanced, choose computer-to-computer [ad-hoc] networks only, then close.

click on add, name your SSID, check the box  (connect even if this network is not broadcasting). Choose network authentication, Data encryption WEP (put a password for your network) or disabled. click OK.

Go back to general tab click on Internet Protocol [TCP/IP] then click properties. In the TCP/IP window, click on use the following IP address, and in the box type in IP address 192.168.01 and in Subnet mask type in 225.225.225.0. This will be the gateway and DNS server for other computers. click on OK, then close it.

Now let's share the internet connection. on the Internet connection right click on the icon and then choose properties. after choosing the properties click on the advanced tab, click on allow other network users to connect through this computers internet connection. Click on OK (a new window will appear, just click ok and click yes).

Wait for your Wlan to acquire  network when its connected, now your internet connection is shared through your WLAN, thus making your laptop a wireless router.

Hope this guide helped you...