Starting up Connectify. Sharing WIFI from Laptop or computer

Once we have installed Connectify we restart our PC, connect via WIFI or LAN to the regular router, and we set up our new connection to share WIFI or internet. If you have missed any steps, please see older posts.

Image by yum9me via Flickr

Now we should have Connectify already started, on a hidden icon in the bottom right corner of the screen, next to the hour/date of the system, if not we just go start>and on the search box displayed below, we type in: Connectify. Although, it should show up once you have typed in the first few letters. Double-click it.

Once done, we use the wizard to set up our connection. Its pretty self-explanatory. Just a couple tips:

1. You need a password. It won't allow you to set up an internet sharing connection without a password.
2. Ad-Hoc and other types of connection, are not able to share internet with this program, so we need to choose:  Mode Access Point, WPA2-PSK.
3. Share internet: YES. Wireless Network Connection (or the one you want to share). 
4. Then just start the hotspot. If it works. Awesome. You're done. 
5. If it doesn't work. Keep on reading. We are going to go over all sorts of trouble when doing this.

Image by suhreed via Flickr

BTW, the image featured is just to show you how it looks like. However, that is the Ad-Hoc mode. Does not share internet. You need to change the mode to the one specified above.