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I set up a mobile hotspot. According to the admin panel, I can only allow up to 8 devices to connect to it.

How do I increase the maximum number of connected devices from 8 devices to 20 devices?

Screenshot of mobile hotspot settings

Giacomo1968
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feklee
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If you add a Dword value named WifiMaxPeers to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\icssvc\Settings

it will change the upper limit in Mobile Hotspot, e.g. I changed it to decimal 10, and the Mobile Hotspot control panel showed "Devices connected: 0 of 10".

I have tested this with 10 connected clients concurrently.

I strongly suggest making the change with Mobile Hotspot turned off and rebooting for the changes to take effect.

The maximum value of this key appears to be decimal 128. Larger values prevent Mobile Hotspot from starting.

Antidisestablishmentarianism
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To.supplement the other answers:https://superuser.com/a/1620967/1777639 No need restart, just run powershell or cmd, run commond

stop-service "icssvc"
get-service "icssvc" 
start-service "icssvc"
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