Connectify Turns Windows 7 Into a Wi-Fi Hotspot
November 2, 2009
Connectify is a new program that turns your Windows 7 PC into a Wi-Fi hotspot. It’s interesting because Microsoft had announced that this feature would be built into Windows 7 on release, but never got around to finishing it. Interestingly, enough code was left in the operating system to make it easy to code a program to implement what Microsoft had originally intended to do.
It’s possible to run your PC as a Wi-Fi hotspot if you don’t run Windows 7, but it is pretty difficult.
I’m interested to see if this actually runs in station (SoftAP) mode or in ad-hoc mode. We will see.
Connectify is a free beta download, though I wouldn’t be surprised if they charge once the final version is released.
Thanks for writing about Connectify. We thought you may want to know that today Connectify 1.0 is now available for free as the first production ready release. We believe that we have fixed all of the issues that were seen in testing. Some older wireless cards do not yet have full Windows 7 support, and for those devices Connectify will act as an Ad Hoc connection manager, instead of a full blown Wi-Fi Access Point.
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