July 20, 2010 | In: Interesting Programs
Use Laptop as a Wifi router
Today I am going to introduce a program that’s quite useful. It’s called “Connectify”, which is a windows-7 based program to turn your regular laptop into a WIFI access point. Set up is truly simple and wizard helps you build a wifi network in a few minutes. It’s not an ad-hoc network, any device that can connect to the network. (PS3/Printers/iPhone/Etc.)
Network is secured with WPA2 but cannot be turned off, maybe because we can so easily see others’ information we we wanted to. Connectify requires Windows7/2008 R2 but ‘Windows7 Starter Edition’ is not supported. This Virtual Access Point feature was to be included in Windows7, but Microsoft had to rush the release before finishing the project. So developers of Connectify picked up the parts in Win7 and finished the program.