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i doubt they will bother since its not setup by default

Thanks for this! I’ve just got it working on my Atheros (not Intel) wireless card.

@Fred: I don’t think its possible to block this behavior since everything is client-side.

This is -exactly- why public hotspots will start blocking this behaviour somehow within the next six months or so, and render the feature next to useless.

“It might also save you paying for multiple connections if youРІР‚в„ўre traveling with somebody else.”

Not asking for credit, since this is publicly accessible info from MSDN. Just an FYI.

But I had been using it to sync and make purchases from my Zune by connecting to my PC (HP tx2 w Realtek card) via the “hostednetwork” since a month or so.

FYI, I posted on this on Nov 3rd on my blog:

I think Connectify used the lake of easy UI for this feature as a weak point in Window. We can’t blame them for doing what Microsoft should have done to make this great feature more “Visual” other than showing a VWiFi Adapter in Connection Manager. CMD is not user friendly at all, Only IT Admins & Geeks can use it in a right way.

Of course this functionality isn’t that useful day-to-day, but a powerful usage scenario for this internet sharing functionality via Virtual WiFi will be when you’re at an airport or hotel which limits your connection to a single wireless adapter. Not only would this save you playing switcheroo with the hotspot, but it might also save you paying for multiple connections if you’re traveling with somebody else.

Share an existing connection to it by going to the “Properties” of a connection, selecting the “Sharing” tab and enabling ICS and choosing the corresponding Virtual WiFi adapter.

Start the adapter by netsh wlan start hostednetwork

Open an elevated command line with administrative privileges and type netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=Test key=password replacing the name and password with your own preference.

To set up and use Virtual WiFi in Windows 7, without paying a buck, just follow :

Recently, the internet has been which interacts with this Windows 7 Virtual WiFi technology, but . Personally I find it ludicrous that someone would charge for what is essential a wrapper to .

After downloading and installing the drivers ( , ), assuming your WiFi chipset supports the functionality (which I can verify the 5300 can but 3945 cannot), a new “Wireless Network Connection” with the adapter name “Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport” will automatically appear in your network connections.

If you have a reasonably new laptop with an Intel WiFi chipset then I have some good news. A set of new Intel WiFi drivers made available just a couple weeks ago, version 13.0.0.107 if you’re playing along, finally adds the necessary driver-level support for the .

November 6, 2009 5:34 pm AEST

Latest Intel drivers add Windows 7 Virtual WiFi support – istartedsomething