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Questions tagged [wireless-hotspot]

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Turn on mobile hotspot on startup Windows 10

for some weird reason I can't use netsh wlan start hostednetwork and instead I am using the windows 10 option "Mobile hotspot". My problem is that I want to turn on the hotspot automatically on startup, is there a way to do it ? On my other laptop I…
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Activating Mobile Hotspot in Win10 does disable the internet connection

I have the following problem: On my Win10 Laptop I use a WiFi connection to the university network to get internet access in my dorm room. I use a WiFi dongle with a USB-extension cable because I only get a good signal at the window. In order to get…
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How can I limit bandwidth to users on a wireless hotspot on Linux?

I have a Ubuntu laptop (14.04) which is connected to the internet via Ethernet. The internet connection is shared using wireless AP on the same laptop to which mine and some friend's phones connect. I want to limit the bandwidth of all devices…
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Connect by VPN when local and remote networks use identical address ranges

As part of my work I connect to a VPN that uses the 192.168.1.* address range on the remote network. Often I connect from public WiFi hotspots that I rarely have control over their configuration. The hotspots are not within the organization. They…
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Wifi list not showing on Windows 8

I'm having a problem with my laptop, currently running Windows 8. I used to use Internet with my mobile phone's wifi hotspot and enable laptop's airplane mode when I'm not using the Internet. But, yesterday, when I tried to connect wifi, it showed…
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Windows 10 as a wifi hotspot stops if not used

I use below commands to configure my windows 10 as a wifi hotspot netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=AdHoc key=password netsh wlan start hostednetwork source:…
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Windows Hotspot disconnects the Windows itself from Internet

I'm using a local network to connect to the internet. I connect my Windows 11 laptop directly using a Lan cable to the network. After turning Windows Hotspot feature on, My Android phone has access to the internet but the laptop it self disconnects…
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How to let Windows 11 start WLAN hotspot automatically while startup?

I'm temporarily living in a place with no WLAN router and rely on WLAN hotspot on my Windows 11 laptop. As such, I want to turn on hotspot automatically on when I login or when hotspot for whatever reason was turned off (I've turned off energy…
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How to connect my Oculus Quest 2 headset which is 5 Ghz when Windows won’t allow me to create a 5Ghz hotspot?

I’ve been trying to connect my Oculus Quest 2 headset to my PC and I bought a 5ghz Wi-Fi card for it but Windows doesn’t allow me to create a 5 Ghz Wi-Fi hotspot if my router doesn't support it which it sadly doesn’t. I was hoping if there was a…
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Mobile hotspot cannot be activated because "No internet access"

Although I have internet connection, network status shows "no internet access". That prevents using Mobile Hotspot to share the internet connection because it says "We can't set up mobile hotspot because your PC doesn't have an Ethernet, WiFi or…
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make Website restriction or block website in hotspot

I have E5573Cs-609 device from HUAWEI. This is wifi hotspot device. My requirement is when other devices are connected then users should not view website like fb,youtube. I tried but not working. Some one please help me. This may helpful to some…
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Why does hostapd with channel=0 (ACS) fail?

I try to setup a WiFi AP with hostapd on Debian (Bullseye and Bookworm) with Automatic Channel Selection (ACS), by setting channel=0 in /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf. On multiple system with different hardware this does not work, i.e. we did not find…
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Failing to configure local box as wifi hotspot with nmcli

I am trying to configure my Fedora 38 box to work as an access point (WiFi hotspot) called, say, MyAP. So I use nmcli like this: nmcli -p con add type wifi con-name MyAP autoconnect yes ssid MyAp \ ipv6.method disabled ipv4.method shared…
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I want to share my VPN internet to other devices on Windows 11 (without `Hosted Network Supported`)(Newer generation modules)

I wish to share my internet over my Laptop PC. Currently, we use ISP to connect to the internet, then we use VPN/Proxy to access the global network. The Issue I have is on the old time, I would use a VPN/Proxy per device, and as the prices raised so…
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Can connect to linux hotspot only via QR code

I'm trying to get internet from my laptop hotspot. The problem is somewhat unbelievably stupid. There are 3 cases: I set security mode to WPA/WPA2 and set password. Then trying to authenticate, and... there's no any error. The connection status in…
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