I've enabled Settings -> More networks -> Tethering and portable hotspot -> Portable - Wi-Fi hotspot
, and when I click on the left-hand-side of such entry (after enabling its left-hand-side green toggle button), and click Configure
, I can set the Security
option to either Open
or WPS2 PSK
(the latter being the default).
But with the WPS2 PSK
enabled Windows 7 tries to connect, but fails because it just won't ask me the password and try to connect as though the only connection configuration setting it knows for this type of connection is the Open
option (which works if enabled on Android).
Is it possible to get WPS2 PSK
to be supported on Windows 7?
NOTE: I can probably obtain a reasonable degree of security by setting the connection security to Open
and allowing only allowed devices to connect, but then someone faking my MAC address, if they knew it, could still connect (the MAC address can be obtained by issuing the ipconfig /all
DOS command and grabbing the entry next to Physical Address
. But such method has the following disadvantages:
- Information sent is visible over the network (any plaintext and other unencrypted data).
- I've entered the PC's mac address from
ipconfig /all
into my Android device's allowed devices list and configured the device to allow only allowed devices, but after this connecting from the PC was unsuccessful. Not sure what I've done wrong.