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Description

Quick HotSpot is a simple application developped in C# .NET 4.0, it mainly uses the windows 7 capability of sharing wifi on laptops, and the icsManagerlibrary for .NET that perform internet Sharing.

Requirement

• Windows 7 or higher
• .NET Framework 4.0 or higher
• up to date network card driver

Usage

1. Start the hotspot ;
2. Choose interface to share ( the one that has internet access ) in the first dropdown ;
3. Choose the local area wifi connection to share with it ;
4. Press the green start button for internet sharing;

Developpement

This application starts/stops the hotspot by executing a list of batch commands that could be found in (wlan.bat) and (stop.bat), the commands are natively included in windows 7 , then it keep fetching the arp table to update the connected users list.
in order to start the HotSpot without the GUI just execute this command from wlan.bat folder as administrator :

wlan nameofhotspot password 

Credits

IcsManagerLibrary on Git : https://github.com/utapyngo/icsmanager
Arp class found on CodeProject : http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/358946/Retrieving-IP-and-MAC-addresses-for-a-LAN