Question by zombie z: Creating a virtual hot spot on a laptop?[connecting gadgets to internet without a router for Wi-Fi connection]?
I want to use my laptop as a router so that I can connect my PSP 3000 to the internet.
I have tried searching on how to do so and got a few articles on how to do so. However, most of them are for either Win XP or Vista and I am currently using Win 7 and ofcourse its way too difficult to imply those techniques on Win 7..
I came across an article which said that i can used softwares which create virtual hot spots and turn my laptop into a router(host) through which i can connect my PSP. I tried using some like Connentify and Virtual AP but they didn’t work.Connectify uses WPA-2 encryption which is not accepted on a psp .
So, basically,..what I am asking is that can anyone suggest me a good and trusted software that might help?.
Or maybe I can tweak some setting so that my laptop simply acts like a router and the PSP detects the Wi-Fi signals and connect to it?
For you info-
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate.
I am using a wireless broadband connection( A USB modem to be straight )
Have a Broadcom 802.11g network adapter. Broadcom NetLink Fast Ethernet(dunno what those two are for).
And ofcourse all that explains i don’t want to buy a router. Connecting that way is possible because i have seen a few videos for XP where it is done. However, the procedure for Win 7 is way more different and thats the problem. An example of such video is this -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k69jPfpxosc
Lastly and the most important of all..It should not be an ad-hoc connection but on Infrastructure mode.PSP aint a normal PC so it does not displays any ad-hoc connections nearby but shows only the normal Wi-Fi connections.
Any help would be appreciated.
~Thanks
Best answer:
Answer by family_guy
All the different software such as connectify etc. use the same technique within windows 7 to create the virtual hotspot. So it doesn’t matter what software you use, it is gonna produce the same results. Connectify is by far the best one i have used, i would try to change the security for the hotspot within the connectify settings.
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