Windows 7 app turns laptop into Wi-Fi access point

A developer has found an unfinished feature of Windows 7 that turns any laptop into a wireless access point, allowing other devices to share the connection without special software. Nomadio, which specialises in military network consulting and development, used the new “Virtual Wi-Fi” feature in Windows 7 to create Connectify, a free application that it has released as a beta. The beta of Connectify can be downloaded from Nomadio’s website. Virtual Wi-Fi was crafted in Microsoft’s research group as a way to “virtualise” one wireless card as several separate adaptors. The project was discontinued in 2006, but the work made its way into Windows 7 as “Native 802.11 Virtual Wireless Fidelity (Virtual Wi-Fi) object identifiers (OIDs). “A year ago, Microsoft …Read More