Android mobile not detecting wireless network created on my laptop

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kalyan picture kalyan · Jun 30, 2013 · Viewed 18.4k times · Source

I use HTC Explorer and I have created an ad-hoc network on my laptop. Although other laptops are easily able to connect to it, my mobile device is not even detecting the Wi-Fi.

How can I connect my mobile to the Wi-Fi hotspot on my laptop (running Windows 7)?

Answer

Dzmitry picture Dzmitry · Jan 1, 2015

There is an alternative solution involving "Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter":

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=NAME key=PASSWORD
netsh wlan stop hostednetwork
netsh wlan start hostednetwork

For additional details and troubleshooting see this post on XDA-developers: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/general/guide-alternate-to-ad-hoc-wi-fi-network-t1924911

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