Enable Internet Access through Hotspot to Connected Devices on Windows 8

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Video: Enable Internet Access through Hotspot to Connected Devices on Windows 8

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   The first thing that we need to do is go to the "Network Connections"

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   The easiest way to do this is to right-click on the Windows icon in lower left corner of the screen, and then select "Network Connections".

   

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   Now, as we can see, we have already created "Local Area Connection* 4", which is named "VisiHow" in our previous tutorial

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   To give it internet access for other devices, we need to double click on "Ethernet", which is the current active internet connection

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   This will open up "Ethernet Status"

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   Now, go to "Properties" at the bottom.

   

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   This will open up "Ethernet Properties"

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   Now, we need to click the "Sharing" tab at the top.

   

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   From here, we need to click on the box next to "Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection"

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   Under "Home networking connection", we need to select "Local Area Connection* 4"

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   It may also be "Local Area Connection* 11", or "Local Area Connection* 13". In any case, the name whatever we previously named it.

   

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   Now, we click "OK" at the bottom

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   We can now close all of the Windows

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    This concludes our tutorial on how to enable internet access through Hotspot to connect to devices on Windows 8 computers

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