Comments on: How To Share Your Windows Internet Connection With Any WiFi Device using Virtual Router

By: Steve Campbell

Steve Campbell — Wed, 18 May 2011 12:45:00 +0000

Thanks, Faunce. Happy to help!

By: Faunce Cynthia Marie Zepeda

Faunce Cynthia Marie Zepeda — Wed, 18 May 2011 05:26:00 +0000

omg thank you so much! i have been looking for something like this for a while and i love it! i have a broadband usb and i wanted to connect my ps3 to my laptop’s internet, since a bridge wasnt working with an ethernet cable, i sorta just gave up. but then i came across this article and, well, thank you so much!

By: Steve Campbell

Steve Campbell — Sun, 01 May 2011 22:40:00 +0000

Thanks for your help, Tina!

By: Tina

Tina — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:37:00 +0000

Jimmy,

I’m afraid Virtual Router is available for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 only.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 07:05:00 +0000

Does it works with Widows Xp ?

By: Bill G

Bill G — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 04:13:00 +0000

Not unless Mr. Gates secretly runs a mac in his basement :-) (Hey, I run several OS’s, why not him?)

By: Bill G

Bill G — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 04:11:00 +0000

Mike says: Virtual WiFi is different from Internet Connection Sharing for example you can use a single (physical) WiFi Adapter to do both connect to one network and share to or create another.

But that CAN be done on a mac as well — I can share wi-fi with wi-fi. Single adapter doing both things.

By: Bill G

Bill G — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 03:11:21 +0000

Mike says: Virtual WiFi is different from Internet Connection Sharing for example you can use a single (physical) WiFi Adapter to do both connect to one network and share to or create another.

But that CAN be done on a mac as well — I can share wi-fi with wi-fi. Single adapter doing both things.

By: Zaiman Noris

Zaiman Noris — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:34:00 +0000

better interface than connectify.

By: Kieran Madden

Kieran Madden — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:30:00 +0000

Interesting article, although having followed this ( http://www.blogsdna.com/5506/how-to-setup-virtual-wifi-in-windows-7-without-any-extra-software.htm ) I’m not sure what this software does that can’t be done with a couple of fairly easy commands in Command Prompt though – and once this has been done, I think it has to be undone for this software to work properly.

Anyway, I’m trying to use virtual wifi so my PC can act as a wireless VPN router between the Internet and my PS3. My plan is to run an SSL VPN using OpenVPN on my PC, connected to the internet using my main wifi adapter. My PC would then connect to my home network – namely my PS3 – via a wifi adapter.

Trouble is, I can’t even get internet connection sharing working without the VPN running, never mind with it running. Does anyone have any ideas? I’m running Windows 7 64-bit and an old ASUS P5DH motherboard with onboard Realtek RTL8187 wifi adapter.

I did manage to get sharing working using a PPTP VPN, but it’s too slow – and it was different as the item to be shared was the VPN itself, not the wireless network adapter. I wonder whether the system (or the aged wifi driver/hardware) doesn’t like the same device basically being shared between itself?

By: Kieran Madden

Kieran Madden — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:30:09 +0000

Interesting article, although having followed this ( http://www.blogsdna.com/5506/h… ) I’m not sure what this software does that can’t be done with a couple of fairly easy commands in Command Prompt though – and once this has been done, I think it has to be undone for this software to work properly.

By: Steve Campbell

Steve Campbell — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:49:00 +0000

Your last name isn’t Gates, is it Bill? ;)

By: Steve Campbell

Steve Campbell — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:48:00 +0000

Appreciate the clarification, Mike. Users should find this information helpful. Thanks!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:18:00 +0000

Simply sharing the connection [as in Mac OS X Sharing Preferences] from one adapter to another is possible at least since Windows XP. All you have to do is select both Adapters and create a Network Bridge.

Virtual WiFi is different from Internet Connection Sharing for example you can use a single (physical) WiFi Adapter to do both connect to one network and share to or create another.

By: Bill G

Bill G — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:48:00 +0000

MacOS X (and even system 9!) has that built in — just share your internet connection however you wish in the Sharing preference panel. Nothing to download — it just works out of the box.