Android phones have a built-in feature that allows you to create a QR code to share your password. The exact method of creating this code may vary slightly between devices, but the general process remains the same. Keep reading to learn how to share your WiFi password via your Android device.
Turn your Windows PC into a mobile hotspot by sharing your internet connection with other devices over Wi-Fi. You can share a Wi-Fi, Ethernet, or cellular data connection. If your PC has a cellular data connection and you share it, it will use data from your data plan.
Turn your Windows 10 PC into a mobile hotspot by sharing your Internet connection with other devices over Wi-Fi. You can share a Wi-Fi, Ethernet, or cellular data connection. If your PC has a cellular data connection and you share it, it will use data from your data plan.
I'm trying to share my wifi from my usb wifi adapter through my mac and out of my mac built in wifi and when I share the wifi this way is works for about 3 seconds and then starts searching for a network and stops broadcasting wifi.
This method works and you can broadcast any wifi you are connected to using 2 wifi adapters one being the built in wifi card on mac and the other being a usb wifi adapter, mine is a 150Mbps wireless TP-Link nano usb adapter.
To solve my problem, and others that I ran into with no apparent 'fix', is to make sure you are broadcasting through channel 11 as for some reason this one just works and also if it isn't working just try to restart your mac till it works, seriously I'm not joking. I don't know how or why but restarting your mac repeatedly just fixes whatever unsolvable problem you may have. And I will emphasise this again just restart, and yes, until your mac wifi sharing works.
As several people have already figured out in the question and answers here, it lets you share the connection from one hardware interface via any other hardware interface, but it can't use a single Wi-Fi interface as both the main connection and to re-share. (Windows 7 can do this, thanks to "network virtualization" features added by Microsoft, which essentially allows a single hardware Wi-Fi interface to respond to multiple SSIDs, and that's the underlying feature that Connectify leverages.)
One option that Mac OS X has that isn't quite an answer to this question, but is useful in some of the same situations, is that it can use Bluetooth to create a Personal Area Network (PAN), and its internet sharing feature can share the internet connection from Wi-Fi over the Bluetooth PAN, as documented here.
If you're a developer and use Linux, it should be possible to develop a new kernel module that will accomplish the "full duplex endpoint + repeater" functionality. For starters, target one specific device that you can get the wifi chipset datasheets for; you need bus architecure, register numbers, memory addresses, interrupt numbers, signal timings, radio boot routine, and the function list (synchronous and asynchronous).
You can share using USB wifi modem.Connect to internet using usb wifi.In settings->sharing configure sharing from USB wifi to wifi.Make sure to turn off firewall if not your hotspot doesn't allow DHCP to assign IP to client devices. This worked on my Yosemite.
When you have successfully set up a wireless router and connected to the Internet, if you want to share the wireless network (Wi-Fi) with your family and friends, you need to provide the Wi-Fi name and password, so that your family and friends can connect to the Wi-Fi on their devices.
B. Tap [ Share WiFi with your friends] > select the WiFi band to share (single choice) > set[ Allow access for ]and tap [ OK ], the screen displays the WiFi name, password and the QR code.
I just purchase a Linksys WRT 3200ACM and install openwrt (openwrt-19.07.8-mvebu-cortexa9-linksys_wrt3200acm-squashfs-factory). My goal is to use the router as a bridge or converter i.e. to connect to my WPA2 Enterprise wifi and bridge it as standard personal wifi to be used by any device. I have been reading online but still can't figure it out.
This should make the router route all Internet use out to the enterprise AP, basically working the same as a default configuration except the Internet connection is wireless instead of wired. An upstream IP should be shown on the main status page. You can then add a wifi AP on the lan network for the re-shared users.
I successfully manage to connect to the WPA2 enterprise and reshare it, one issue is that I keep on loosing internet connection. secondly, I was trying to setup DDNS on the same router but am getting the wan IP from the main checkpoint. what is the best way to make it work.
The wpa2 enterprise SSID I am connected to is stable and in use by other devices with no issues, I am only losing internet if I am connected to the wifi I created in OpenWRT to share the wpa2 enterprise wifi.
Hello there. I currently don't have an internet connection set up at home, so I use my mobile data instead. I connect my laptop (running Arch Linux with KDE Plasma) to my phone's hotspot. I recently got an old PC from my uncle, and set up Linux Mint 19 on it. The problem is, the PC doesn't have a wireless network card, and can only use wired internet. I was using USB tethering to share my phone's internet, but it's kinda inconvenient. I want to know how to share my laptop's internet through an ethernet cable to my PC. I've already tried a few things, and none of these have worked :
1) I connected my laptop to my PC with an ethernet cable, and set up a shared Ethernet connection from the network settings in KDE's panel. It shows on my laptop that it's connecting to the shared ethernet connection. While it shows this on my laptop, my PC says that it's connected, and I can use the internet normally. But after a few seconds, the shared ethernet stops connecting on my laptop, and says "Never used.". Once this happens, I can't access the internet on my PC anymore, and have to click connect again.
As some of you may have noticed, iOS 11 introduced a new feature in which it allows users to share wifi passwords with devices nearby. Although I'm not certain, I believe it works with Airdrop over Bluetooth, if that matters.
Obviously this is problematic when you have a business who wants to have a closed wireless network, that's tightly controlled.
Are there any ways to prevent this feature? These are personal phones we're adding to our network, so we won't make any changes to them aside from adding the phone to our network. So I guess we're looking for a way to address this at the network/server/access point level, rather than adjust the settings on a users personal phone.
Hide your SSID so that they can't just see the network and click on it, which would presumably prompt somebody to share it on their phone. They'd have to at least type the SSID in first this way, which I'm not sure would ever prompt to share then. Not certain on that but may be worth a try
you can always use Mac address filtering too - if you can't (easily) do the 802.1x authentication - then simply restricting access to the authorised mac addresses will stop casual connection to your business wifi.
Is MAC address spoofing still a thing? I would think a complex password that only the IT department has and MAC address filtering would work, as well as the latest firmware to your access points that patches the Krack WiFi bug. Your average users just wants WiFi access so they don't run over their data limits. But I do see the need to prevent that password from being shared.
This feature only shares WPA PSK's from what I read. People do this already and you have no way to prevent it. This just makes it easier. If this is all you are relying on for wireless network security then you have bigger issues to consider than people using this iOS feature.
Caveat on MAC Address filtering. Yes, MAC spoofing is still a thing. Secondly, when an AP has a long table to look through before authenticating, it takes a while. I certainly wouldn't do a list of 100 or so. Use 802.1X as iOS doesn't share it. Also, 802.1X is more secure. If you aren't ready for that, some vendors have the ability to control how many times a Private PSK can be used.
Found a link that talks about how the process works for OS11. Seem like if you want to share the wifi password you need to have that person in your contact list. then you have to agree to share it. Does not seem to be automatic. As usual you can not disable it but the good thing is it still does not show the password to the user.
"I can understand why you may have a few select personal devices on the business wifi - when they need to access corporate items - eg printers & presentation devices come to mind."
For those situations, I have a guest SSID that has firewall rules to allow only the necessary ports to the necessary LAN device IPs. I don't want an infected phone/tablet on my internal network just because it occasionally needs to access a network device. My employee-guest network can access my printer, but my regular guest network cannot.
Gregg