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Windows 7 as an WiFi AccessPoint | |
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| Time: 03:47 EST/08:47 GMT | News Source: Bink.nu | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Steven Bink: So I am at the airport and my laptop has built in mobile broadband and I have a cheap roaming subscription. Now I would like to do Internet connected stuff on my iPhone too, but that roaming data is ridiculously priced. Now with Windows 7 you can share your internet connection (nothing new) but you can make it an access point! |
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| #1 By 13997 (98.246.101.184) at Thursday, November 12, 2009 05:03:29 AM |
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Not to rain on Win7, but features like this have been available from various WiFi Adapter vendors for several years for both XP and Vista.
I have a laptop from 2005 that with the XP, Vista, and Win7 drivers it acts as a Client and an AP point. The Win7 feature here is built in to the networking stack with OS recognition/control, where the older solution provided this functionality in the Driver only and had to be configured from the Driver settings. I mention this because you always find lots of people saying OS X or ABC OS had this for years, well, yes they have, and so has Windows for the majority of users that pay attention to the features of their WiFi Adapter. |
| #2 By 17855 (205.167.180.132) at Thursday, November 12, 2009 08:42:41 AM |
| Three words "Internet Connection Sharing". Been around at least since Windows 98. |
| #3 By 8556 (173.27.242.53) at Thursday, November 12, 2009 11:15:41 AM |
| #3: I don't recall wireless connection sharing in Windows 98. |
| #4 By 23275 (68.117.163.128) at Thursday, November 12, 2009 11:20:40 AM |
| #3, Bobs, ICS shipped as an optional component in W88SE. |
| #5 By 2960 (68.100.201.101) at Thursday, November 12, 2009 01:56:39 PM |
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Cheap Mobile Broadband Roaming Subscription?
I wish this guy would name names! I know of no such animal. Verizon is like $65 for a paltry 5GB a month! |
| #6 By 2960 (68.100.201.101) at Thursday, November 12, 2009 01:58:11 PM |
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Great. Just great. Now everyone will turn on ICS, and I'll get 2000 tickets for users who's SecureClient have crapped out with an IP Forwarding error.
Thank you. No, really. Thank you... |
| #7 By 13997 (98.246.101.184) at Thursday, November 12, 2009 02:51:03 PM |
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#2 ICS - Just to be clear this more about using a duality mode of the same Wireless Adapter, allowing it to connect to a WiFi spot and then create an AP/ICS at the same time. This is what makes this beyond ICS. In the past you would need two WiFi adapters to do this with ICS or a dual AP/WiFi card as I mention above that did ship in a lot of laptops.
#3 ICS has been around since Win98, and NT4.0 - also other features like bridges and multiplexing connections. Back in the days of dial-up these were life savers for people with one phone line and also businesses without access to highspeed or a fall back to dial-up where you could use 2 or more modems to create a larger bandwidth connection. Windows has had a lot of connectivity features from the NT4.0 and Win98 days, and is one of the reason Win98 was more than just an 'update' from Win95. (Win98 also introduced OS level sound mixing -playing more than one sound at a time - and a lot of other 'nice' little features that people in the Windows world just take for granted.) #5 Go look at Alltel/Verizon, if you have a 3G phone, Tether it, and pay the $25 a month for virtually unlimited Internet access. ATT is one of the more expensive 3G broadband plans and a really poor example to use if you want cost effective easy 3G. (There is even chaper 4G in many cities now.) #6 Um, not really... ICS is a very strong and reliable NAT solution, that is just as functional as any home NAT based router. Also this is just turning on ICS for the WiFI virtual adapter, so unless your iPhone has a magical VPN application that is somehow incompatible with NAT, you won't see this. |
| #8 By 2960 (68.100.201.101) at Monday, November 16, 2009 11:38:05 AM |
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I can assure you, if you turn on ICS on a SecureClient equipped computer, you WILL get an IP Forwarding Error when SecureClient tries to initialize.
It's a top 10 around here. |
