Share Your Internet Connection via WiFi on Windows 8.1
January 21, 2014
For the first time in years, I’m using a Windows PC as my main computer. It’s Windows 8.1, and thanks to a great introduction video, the transition was quite smooth. Of course, there are things that I miss and keep doing wrong (right-click… had forgotten all about that one), but overall I’m happy.
The first main issue I encountered was sharing my internet connection so that my phone could use it. Nothing strange really—I do this several times a day on my MacBook Pro, and it’s dead simple. Click the Network symbol, select “Create network…”, give it a name (and optional password), and you’re done.
So you can imagine my surprise when I started searching for this in Windows 8.1. There were guides on how to use DOS commands and other configurations or stuff to download and install, which ended up crashing on me anyway.
After a...