Setting up Ad-hoc wireless network for Windows 8.1 and above :: QUARC Targets
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Open “Network and Sharing Center” through the “Control Panel”.
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Select “Set up a new connection or network”
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In the pop-up window, select “Manually connect to a wireless network” and press Next.
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Enter the SSID of the ad-hoc network into the “Network name” field, and select the appropriate
“Security type” for the ad-hoc network (in the following screenshot, the SSID is GSAH,
with an open ad-hoc network).Make sure the “Start this connection automatically” checkbox is not checked, and press Next.
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Go back to “Network and Sharing Center”, and select “Change adapter settings”.
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Right-click on the wireless adapter to be connected to the ad-hoc network, and choose “Properties”.
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In the adapter’s properties window, select “Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)”, then press “Properties”.
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In the “Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)” properties window, select “Use the following IP address”, and
enter the appropriate “IP address”, “Subnet mask” settings. Make sure to choose a different
IP address than the device that is on the ad-hoc network already. Set the “Default gateway” to be
the same as “IP address”. Leave all the DNS server fields empty, and press OK. -
Close all the wireless and adapter windows opened in the previous steps.
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Open a command prompt and enter the following commands (replace
<ssid>
with the actual SSID of the network):For Windows 8.1:
netsh wlan set profileparameter <ssid> connectiontype=ibss
netsh wlan connect <ssid>
For Windows 10:
netsh wlan set profileparameter <ssid> connectiontype=ibss connectionmode=manual
netsh wlan connect <ssid>
The following screenshot shows an example of connecting to Linux Verdex target ad-hoc
network with SSID GSAH with Windows 10 host.
Setting up Ad-hoc wireless network for Windows 8.1 and above
Due to limitations of Windows 8.1 and above, ad-hoc wireless network set up requies some manual steps. First, the
network’s SSID must be known. For example, the SSID of Linux Verdex target supplied by Quanser is pre-configured as GSAH.
Perform the following steps to setup the ad-hoc network: