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Farzad_K Author

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Hosting a WiFi

Hello.

My mid 2012 MBP has a boot camp partition where I have Windows 10 pro, and where I create a hosted wifi network in order to get a few computers connected together for file sharing. Internet is not required and in fact isn't available.

i want to create such a private wifi on the OSX partition of my MBP because I have found an app that I can use on OSX to remote into the other PCs, all that I need is to get my MBP to broadcast its own wifi and then have the other devices attach to it.

I have found some information online but they are a bit confusing. Can anyone direct me to a good source on how to do this? Thanks a lot.

Farzad

MacBook Pro, macOS Sierra (10.12.6), Mid 2012 Model A1286

Posted on Mar 12, 2018 9:47 PM

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MrHoffman

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Posted on Mar 17, 2018 1:57 PM

You'll probably want to acquire a Wi-Fi router. That's the easiest way to deal with this, and you can configure and wire that for security and for a link to the internet. But if you want to set up an ad-hoc Wi-Fi network on macOS, here's one discussion: How to Create and Use an Ad Hoc Network on Your Mac. macOS and Windows make comparatively clunky and expensive and awkward network routers, if you're thinking of sharing the network links.

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