There’s no need to create an account and you can use it to share. Once installed, click the purple ‘Try It Out’ button to start using Connectify Hotspot.
#CONNECTIFY WIFI INSTALL#
Step 2: Download and install the latest version of Connectify Hotspot - FREE. The UI is a little goofy, particularly the form validation is unclear. Step 1: Connect to the inflight wifi service on your Windows laptop.
Many have terms against reselling the connections, however sharing with friends, family and your other computers is generally fine. This depends on the terms of service of your Internet Service Provider. From Connectify's site: Am I allowed to share my Internet? I'm planning on using it from, for example, my hotel to share with my phone, or at a coffee shop to share with maybe one additional person. Warning: You need to check with your provider if you're planning on sharing your connection. ICS is nice if you have two network cards, but it's hardly convenient or easy. It loses all of your settings every time the machine reboots for example, making it effectively useless for anything but a quick demo. (ie, you needed to get your internet from another card).ģ) I realize you're at Microsoft, but ICS has severe issues. With the old ICS/ad hoc thing, you could not use your internet connection for anything but the ad hoc sharing.
#CONNECTIFY WIFI DRIVER#
The ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) feature you mention is really ICS + Ad Hoc WiFi.ġ) It's a real wifi access point, not an ad hoc Wifi connection.Ģ) The Virtual WiFi driver feature in Windows 7 lets us set up your Wifi access point, while actually staying attached to another Wifi network at the same time. Step 1: Click here to purchase and install Connectify Hotspot MAX. I asked their support and suggested they add the answer to their FAQ.
Isn't this just Internet Connection Sharing? Personally, I have no idea how much they intend to charge, I just caution them and hope they think about this. If they try to charge $40 for a basic service, that's going to be a hard sell in my opinion. I'd totally pay $19.95 for this to connect up to, say, 3 people. The real question is going to be how they price it. I love this product and I know I'll use it all the time. I was sharing my connection with two laptops. For the test, I disconnected my primary WiFi and connected only to the Connectify spot and it worked famously. Next, over on my Lenovo T60p, I checked out the list of WiFi hotspots nearby: I could have called the HotSpot anything and the passphase can be anything. Then, I simply ran Connectify, gave it a new secret WPA passphrase, and created a new WiFi hotspot. This functionality is actually baked into Windows 7, so if you've got 7, you've got this.įast forward to today and there's a new product in Beta called " Connectify." Since I just started using a new 4G WiMAX product called Clear I thought this would be the perfect match.įirst, on my Dell Mini 9, I made a connection with 's WiMAX.
#CONNECTIFY WIFI HOW TO#
Somewhere around 2002, Microsoft Research started trying to figure out how to virtualize a WiFi adapter so one physical adapter could act as multiple virtual adapters.
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