Share your Wi-Fi network - on Windows 10

Wi-Fi Sense was originally a Windows Phone 8.1 feature now availbale with Windows 10 on PCs and Tablets.

This feature lets you share Wi-Fi network access with your Facebook, Outlook.com, and Skype contacts. It works in the background, automatically sharing networks you choose to share and downloading credentials for Wi-Fi networks your contacts have shared with you.

When you visit your friend’s house or place of business, Windows 10 can automatically sign you into their Wi-Fi if they’ve shared it with you  — that’s the idea.

It is designed to automatically share Wi-Fi passphrases between friends, eliminating the need for handing them over the old-fashioned way and typing them in by hand.

If don’t want your friends sharing your Wi-Fi network further, you’ll have to label it with _optout.
(eg. 'NetworkName_optout' like 'MyHomeNetwork_optout')

Sharing Wi-Fi Networks
To easily share a Wi-Fi network, enable the check box “Share network with my contacts” that appear when connect to a network (Networks --> Connections)



Configuring Wi-Fi Sense
To customize Wi-Fi Sense navigate to Network & Internet --> Wi-Fi --> Manage Wi-Fi Settings

>> Can disable Wi-Fi sense / choose whether Wi-Fi Sense automatically connects (by default) / choose which types of contacts shares connection details with — Outlook.com, Skype, and Facebook contacts

>> Can also see known networks you’ve shared, and which you haven’t and share/unshare networks accordingly.

**There is also a controversial discussion on this feature as risk of exposing your network connection...
But Microsoft claims that this feature improves security and reduces frustration.
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