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Creating a wireless ad hoc network in windows 8

I'm using Windows 8 Pro.Can anyone please help me with creating a wireless ad-hoc network so that i can share files and my broadband connection as well with others connected to my network.
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Hi,

 

 

Thank you for posting your question on Microsoft Community Forums.

 

From the issues description, I understand that you want to know how to create a wireless ad-hoc network on Windows 8.

 

I am sorry to inform you that Windows 8 doesn’t include an option to create and setup wireless ad-hoc network connection to share files and internet with Wi-Fi enabled computers and devices.

 

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.

 

 

For more information on this, you may also post the question at the link mentioned below:

 

 http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/w8itpronetworking/threads

 

Feel free to get back to us if you have any question related to Windows. We would be glad to help you.

 

 

 

Regards,
Rajesh Govind - Microsoft Support Engineer

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