I need to make a wifi hotspot from my mac when it is connected to the home wifi . I need to give wifi to few temporary people without giving my home wifi password. So I need to create a wifi hotspot from my macbook when it is connected to home wifi, so I can create a new password from my mac and give it to the temporary users.
Update
I tried to share wifi from internet sharing options in macbook , but there is no option to turn on wifi sharing from the wifi connection it has already established .
With windows
with windows , this is is possible by following below steps ,
- open cmd as administrator & type, netsh wlan set hostednetwork
mode=allow ssid=wifinameyouwant key=12345678 and hit enter - then type, netsh wlan start hostednetwork , and hit enter
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then go to network and sharing settings and you'll see the new
network -
then go to adapter settings and right click on the wifi adapter , and
go to sharing and enable sharing to the temporary network you have
created
that's it , but I need a solution in Mac
Best Answer
Your Mac’s physical Wi-Fi interface can either be connected to a Wi-Fi network or host its own network. It can do only one of these things at a time. You cannot connect to a Wi-Fi network and sharing that Wi-Fi network’s connection over Wi-Fi.
Sharing a Wi-Fi network connection by creating another Wi-Fi network will require a separate physical network interface.
Windows has a useful feature that allows you to create a virtual Wi-Fi adapter interface, making it possible to both connect to a Wi-Fi network and create a Wi-Fi hotspot using the same physical network interface at the same time.
Macs unfortunately don’t have the same sort of virtual network interface feature. To share a Wi-Fi connection over Wi-Fi, you’ll need a separate physical Wi-Fi interface.
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