Follow these instructions instead of those above in case you can’t or don’t know how to use your wireless card manufacturer utility. If you already configured your wireless card for Ad-Hoc network please skip to Step 2 – Configure Internet Connection Sharing.
1.
Open Network Connections, Select your Wireless
card right click on it and select Properties.
(To open Network Connections: click Start
► Run; in the dialog box, type ncpa.cpl and click OK.)
2. Click the Wireless Networks tab.
3. Enable Use Microsoft Windows to configure my wireless network settings
4. Click Add…
5. For Network name (SSID) type: 2HOTSPOT
6. For Data encryption select Disabled
7. Enable This a computer-to-computer (ad hoc) network
8. Click Ok to close the ‘Wireless network properties’ window
9. Click Ok to close the ‘Wireless Network Connection Properties’ window
10. Using your test computer wireless adapter, view the available wireless networks, check the list and validate that you can see your newly configured 2HOTSPOT network. If it is configured, try to connect to it. If you cannot find your new network verify the settings are correct.
Note: If you can not see or connect to the 2HOTSPOT network try Configuring your wireless card for ad-hoc network using your card manufacturer utility
11. Open Network Connections; Select your Wireless card right click on it and select Rename. Type: “Private Connection”
Note: To open Network Connections, click Start, click Run, type ncpa.cpl in the Open box, and then click OK.
12. Still in Network Connections; Select the connection from which you go out to the Internet, right click on it and select Rename. Type: “Internet Connection”.
If you have completed these activities you are ready to continue to Step 2 – Configure Internet Connection Sharing