How To Create Wireless Ad-Hoc Internet Connection In Windows 8

If you’re a power user, you might have noticed that Windows 8 doesn’t include an option to create and setup ad-hoc network connection to share files and internet with Wi-Fi enabled computers and devices. Windows 7 ad-hoc connection feature does nothing except creating a shared connection with separate IP address to register the device on the virtual network. This allows users to use router’s default or specified DNS server address to easily connect to internet. Even though Windows 8 comes with ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) feature to allow devices  to connect to yours PC internet connection, it doesn’t allow creating a wireless network connection to share the internet. In this post, we will look at a simple tool that lets you easily create and manage ad-hoc connections in Windows 8.
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Steps:
1. Open Notepad
2. Copy and Pasted this code in there

     netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=Whatever key=Whatever keyUsage=persistent 

    netsh wlan start hostednetwork

*NB: change "Whatever" to your what you desire3. save the Notepad document on your desktop as StartWiFi.BAT
4. right-click the file and Run as Administrator
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When the hosted network is started, enable ICS for newly created Wi-Fi connection, so that you can share your internet connection with others. In order to enable ICS feature, head over to Network and Internet –> Network Connections, and open Properties dialog of network device (which is connected to internet). Now, open Sharing tab, enable Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s Internet connection, and then choose the newly created ad-hoc connection from the list. In our case, it’s Wi-Fi 2, as shown in the screenshot below.

Once the internet connection is shared, check the IP address assigned to newly created ad hoc connection from TCP/IPv4 Properties. If it doesn’t assign IP address, then run netsh wlan start hostednetwork command in CMD.

After following the above steps, you will be able to connect Wi-Fi enabled devices with your Windows 8 PC. As shown in the screenshot below, the current internet connection is successfully shared with ad hoc connection.

you are good to go...