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Using An Android Smartphone As A WLAN Hotspot To access Wireless LAN you usually need to find a so-called hotspot where you can use the local Wireless LAN to access the Internet. Android smartphones however have a feature which enables them to become a wireless hotspot themselves - they use UMTS to connect to the Internet and make the Internet connection available to other computers/devices via WLAN. This article describes how you can configure this feature.
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Any Idea how to make PC as Hot spot and connect Android to it ?????
Like we do AdHoc.
my aim is to connect my phone to PC, so I can share my Internet on PC with android.
It is possible, but only with a few WiFi cards and drivers which allow you to setup the wireless interface in a "Master" mode on the PC.
In addition to above, you must install and configure a DHCP server for auto-magically assigning IPv4 addresses, routers and dns-servers etc. to the client machines or mobile devices on the PC.
To make it secure, either manually configure wpa_supplicant or use a Network Manager GUI like wicd to setup the wireless interface as an access point on your PC.
Last, but not the least, do configure a good firewall using iptables or whatever you prefer and enable packet forwarding on the PC (your PC will work like a gateway/router for the WiFi client machines, nodes and, or mobile devices).