Change the channel of a wireless windows 8 hosted network

Question

I've created a hosted wlan network under windows 8 using

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=”MySSID” key=”password”

and

netsh wlan show hostednetwork

So far so good, but the channel number is set automatic by netsh. Is there a possibility to change the number manually?

Answer 1

netsh does not support this special configuration. You have to configure channel settings directly on the hardware yourself. In my special case it was possible to set the channel in the device properties of windows. With some older hardware you have to configure the AP through a vendor configuration tool or by modifying the firmware itself in extreme circumstances.