OBIEE Making your laptop available for Wi-Fi

If you want to do a demo for customer showing the mobile capabilities for OBIEE you need a Wi-Fi access point. Since most organisations don’t allow ‘experiments’ on there Wi-Fi here is how you can set up an Windows 7 laptop as a Wi-Fi gateway.

Open a command line box on your laptop and enter:

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=ObiLaptopWireLess key=OBIEE123

Open the network centre and look for the new entry

It’s probably called something like ‘Wireless Network Connection 2’

Open the connection and select the Sharing tab on the incomming connection:

Select a Network to use for the connection:

On the networking tab select only the IPv4 protocol:

Open a command box to start the network:

netsh wlan start hostednetwork

Change the name to something meaningful:

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