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.
In Windows I can use Connectify Hotspot, which enables me to share the internet connection from the same wireless adapter as I am creating an access point on. As you can read on the technology overview page:
After I saw this link offered by vasishath, I managed to setup a wireless hotspot to share the internet connection from the same single wireless interface device. This wireless device must to use an Atheros driver that is already build with nl80211 support. Next I will show you how.
In wpa_supplicant.conf you must provide the settings of your current wireless network. See man wpa_supplicant for some quick examples. And you probably have more examples in /usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/ directory. I used something like:
(no compilation with make is needed)
Easy, right?Well the rest is even easier... ...If your device is able to be used as a client and a PA at the same time (like atheros wifi chip - edit: some Intel chip too, see second comment bellow) you simply have to connect to your home router with network manager, as you usually do, and than you execute a command line like that:
Here is my project Linux Wifi Hotspot which has both GUI and command-line interface. It can create a virtual wifi hotspot on the same wifi adapter which is connected to the internet. It has additional features such as MAC filter, Change channel/frequency band, view connected devices etc.
As you can see in the comments to this answer ther IS a way to do this. It's documented for FreeBSD (which is not Ubuntu/Linux) here: -to-multiple-ap-with-one-wifi-adapter-under-linux-freebsd (Link from the comment). It does not seem to work exactly the same way on Linux, but it should be similar. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find more detailed information about this topic.
The probably easiest and most common way is using two physical network interfaces. So you may buy another wifi stick or just use another technology to connect further and do just one of them via Wifi. The possibilities are for example:
Once I noticed that Ubuntu Linux is capable of managing two wifi devices at once without being complicated. I did not test this in ways of sharing the internet connection etc, but it should be possible. The way how complicated it will be is probably depending of the type of connections you use. On Linux you probably do not need and kind of special software. It should be possible to share connections without the need for any special tools. Unfortunately I cannot try it at this time.
I recommend you try Wifi to Wifi if you have another wifi stick anyway and otherwise LAN or Bluetooth (which is built-in in most notebooks). 3G/LTE sharing is a bit bad because of providers dataplans and so on.
How to configure the Ubuntu/Xubuntu PC as a WiFi hotspot (ex: for use in airports or on airplanes in order to share a single, paid connection from your PC with your phone and other devices):
on latest ubuntu (04.20) - there is a built in options in the wifi settings.so when you turn on wifi, you have the 3-dots button on top - one of the options there is "turn on hotspot", there, you'll set the wifi SSID and password, and that's it.Note: every wifi adapter can be used only for one action at once - or hotspot of connect to network. so if you have only one adapter and you're connected only via wifi - won't do...
Hi, just wandered is anyone is aware of a method to share the wifi connection on an IPad so other devices can connect to it. Not like tethering where I share my 3g connection with a wifi enabled device. I'm going on holiday and have to pay 15 euro per connected device so wondered if I could connect my IPad then daisy chain our iPhones? Thanks
The only way that you can share the connection is by using the cellular data connection like you do from the phone to the iPad. You have the option of using a mobile hotspot with the iPad and your other devices, but you have to purchase a data plan for that device as well. I have no idea how that impacts the overall cost,
Hi, just wandered is anyone is aware of a method to share the wifi connection on an IPad so other devices can connect to it. Not like tethering where I share my 3g connection with a wifi enabled device. I'm going on holiday and have to pay 15 euro per connected device so wondered if I could connect my IPad then daisy chain our iPhones? Thanks
I Tried to figure it out without downloading the AppZap app but I couldn't. Anyhow I have appzap and if you do too just go in and type in wifi in the search. It brings up all kinds of wifi sharing apps. I can't give you any suggestions because I live in the Boone docks. I'm gonna try out a few on my next visit to town.
One solution I can think of is to connect USB wireless adapter to PC and then share internet via router's LAN. But this way, If I want to play games, I have to turn on my PC all the time even I don't use it at all.
on my android phone I opened wifi settings and found my camera as one of the available networks as long as your camera wifi is on. Selected my cam and the phone connected. I then opened the oi app and bingo. Remote, sharing and all works. While connected to phone you are disconnected from primary wifi which will automatically connect when camera is turned off.
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.
We are traveling with our children in two cabins and have the Princess Plus packages for each cabin. That means one wifi device per person. Can we buy the 4-device wifi and share it with the other cabin? We all use multiple devices. Thank you.
Once you purchase the 4 device package, anyone can access the plan from any where on the ship. They just need the cabin number and name who is paying for it.
(We shared our package with our daughter who was in a cabin three decks above us this summer. Never had an issue.)
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.
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