how to make a wifi hotspot from mac when it is connected to wifi

Question

I need to make a wifi hotspot from my mac when it is connected to the home wifi . I need to give wifi to few temporary people without giving my home wifi password. So I need to create a wifi hotspot from my macbook when it is connected to home wifi, so I can create a new password from my mac and give it to the temporary users.

Update

I tried to share wifi from internet sharing options in macbook , but there is no option to turn on wifi sharing from the wifi connection it has already established .

With windows

with windows , this is is possible by following below steps ,

• open cmd as administrator & type, netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=wifinameyouwant key=12345678 and hit enter
• then type, netsh wlan start hostednetwork , and hit enter

• then go to network and sharing settings and you'll see the new network

• then go to adapter settings and right click on the wifi adapter , and go to sharing and enable sharing to the temporary network you have created

that's it , but I need a solution in Mac

Solution

Your Mac’s physical Wi-Fi interface can either be connected to a Wi-Fi network or host its own network. It can do only one of these things at a time. You cannot connect to a Wi-Fi network and sharing that Wi-Fi network’s connection over Wi-Fi.

Sharing a Wi-Fi network connection by creating another Wi-Fi network will require a separate physical network interface.

Windows has a useful feature that allows you to create a virtual Wi-Fi adapter interface, making it possible to both connect to a Wi-Fi network and create a Wi-Fi hotspot using the same physical network interface at the same time.

Macs unfortunately don’t have the same sort of virtual network interface feature. To share a Wi-Fi connection over Wi-Fi, you’ll need a separate physical Wi-Fi interface.

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Comments

[Liliana Castañón]

you can't do this without a second wireless card, or the mac should connect via ethernet cable

[theModerator713]

@perreal but with pc it is possible. what's wrong with mac ?

[Liliana Castañón]

as far as I know it is not possible with any os

[theModerator713]

@perreal it is possible with windows .I edited the question by showing how to do this in pc .