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Is a Wi-Fi AP just a piece of software + a Wi-Fi card?
As I have seen till now every device having a Wi-Fi card has been able to act as a Wi-Fi Access Point.
So is a Wi-Fi AP just software managing a Wi-Fi NIC to act as an AP?
If yes, then what does the ...
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WRT54GL Tomato Router in Client wireless mode to an iPhone Personal Hotspot
I am trying to connect a router with Tomato firmware to an iPhone 4. The goal is to connect to the Personal Hotspot in Client Wireless mode.
This should allow wired and wireless users to connect to ...
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Can the Lenovo X220 Tablet serve as a WiFi HotSpot?
I want to let other devices connect via WiFi to my new ThinkPad X220 (tablet). I'm running Kubuntu 12.04. How do I determine if my X220 will function as a WiFi HotSpot?
Here is the info hwinfo ...
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Can a Windows XP desktop be made into a WiFi hotspot?
Can a Windows XP Home desktop be made into a WiFi hotspot for using other wireless devices?
We are in a metal building and the DSL modem is in another central room.
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Windows7: Auto start Ad-hoc hotspot if no preferred WiFi network is available
I am on Windows7 and have two different WiFi routers with two different networks at home. But sometimes both these networks are not available, in that case I want my Windows7 machine to start a hot ...
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Why Wireless NIC Loses Its Lease To Router?
This constantly started to happen some time ago. I connect to my router andand lose every few seconds connection to router and it reconnects again. I have screenshooted most errors that Event Viewer ...
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NAT for Sprint Nexus S “Portable Wi-Fi hotspot”
I am on a 2010 Macbook Air connected to the web over wifi tethering on my Sprint Nexus S.
I want to be able to host a few files using MAMP, but it seems that Sprint is running a NAT. When I query ...
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“No Internet Access” But Still Can Access Internet?
This is weird because while status bar of wireless connection tells me that it still identifies hotspot (Not Available) and internet is not accessible, my email client (Windows Live Mail) freely pulls ...
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How can I use an iPhone Personal Hotspot and at the same time stay connected to a Local Network for File Sharing?
I am on a WinXP machine in a LAN.
Through the LAN my computer connects to a server that has some shared drives I need to access.
I usually connect to the internet through that server (which also ...
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Captive portal architecture- internal or external?
I am interested in captive portal architecture. Initially my understanding was that places such as airports and internet cafes would have all the RADIUS and AAA infrastructure on the local side of the ...
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Encrypted Connectify connection
I am connected to internet with proxy (only 8080 and a few other ports are allowed, and only http connections are allowed). I am creating a hot spot with connectify. There are two disadvantages
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Captive portal redirection by IP?
I have read a lot online how redirection by DNS works, could someone please tell me or point me in the right direction how a captive portal redirects unauthenticated users via IP and not DNS to ...
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Does RADIUS monitor billing info for public wifi hotspots?
Im just trying to work out where in the wireless hotspot architecture one would conduct billing and user account monitoring?
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MiFi2200 3G hotspot issue with VPN connection
with TruConnect MIFI2200 hotspot, I am unable to complete network connection over VPN to my office network. The settings show that VPN tuneling is enabled. Is there something else needed in the ...
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Creating a Hot Spot - Vmware + Usb WiFi Adapter
I'm looking for a Linux build (to be installed on a low spec pentium 4 with usb wifi key or a VM) that will act as a wifi router hotspot...
Looking for following functions -
Splash page with terms ...
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WiFi-sharing with Windows XP Pro (similar to “mobile hotspot”)
When on vacation, I always buy a local SIM card and use Android's "mobile hotspot" feature to provide Internet access to two Windows XP Pro laptops (mine and my wife's).
Unfortunately now the Google ...
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Getting XY values of selected region in an image editing program (Specifically Paint.NET)
I hope this is question is in the correct location, but if it is not, please let me know where it belongs.
I'm creating a bunch of hotspots for a skeleton image that I have. Some areas are really ...
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Is it possible to filter which applications can use my iphone personal hotspot?
I'm on a windows machine trying to use the iphone personal hotspot.
I would like to know if it is possible when I use the iphone connection, if I can tell windows which applications are allowed to use ...
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How to find directory with most writes and/or turnaround (write and delete)
is there a way under linux to find out directory with frequent writes and/or deletes?
I'm using Ubuntu and recently bought SSD. I moved /tmp to ramdisk and did some other tweaks to avoid wear. But I ...
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Create a wifi hotspot in a Desktop
I have a Windows XP desktop and I need to create a wifi hotspot there so that I can share the internet connection on my Desktop. I don't have any wifi devices on my Desktop. Now the problem is that I ...
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Can I run Connectify in a virtual Machine running windows 7 on a Macbook Pro?
I have MBP 13' and I tested the Connectify on bootcamp. It works fine, but the problem is that I need Connectify to run on my Mac too. On my current Wifi network I can connect to the internet using ...
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Can I set up an ad hoc connection if my base laptop is connected to a Wi-Fi connection?
I have a Vista computer and cannot download Connectify as it requires Windows 7. Is it possible for me to connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi and share that connection through the same Wi-Fi adapter in ...
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How to bridge a wifi connection between two computers by wifi
Pc 1 : netbook with an usb wifi antenna spotted on a free wifi hotspot
Pc 2 : same model netbook that can't access internet
What I need : Share the wifi connection by the 2 internal WLAN on ubuntu ...
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Tethering on Windows 7?
Is there an option in Windows 7 (or 3rd party) to offer Tethering (that is, act as a WiFi hotspot while being connected to a WiFi network?)
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Macbook WiFi won't connect to public wifi hotspots, but works fine otherwise
I've looked at other posts with similar keywords, but none of them seemed to apply quite right.
(I have a Macbook purchased in June 2008)
I am able to use my home wifi, the wifi at my mom's house, ...
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Will Hotspot Shield hide multiple “votes” from the same computer?
There is a website that allows One Vote Per Computer, per day. Does Hotspot Shield hide the ip, isp and other personal identifying information? For example, if someone voted their "one vote" for the ...
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Any free software for creating paid WIFI hotspot?
Anyone know free software (or very cheap) for creating paid access to WIFI - with tokens mechanism?
Can be on Linux, or Windows...
I have a small Hostel and I want to create paid access to wifi ...
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Using command line to connect to a wireless network with an http login
I'm trying to connect to a wifi network where it hijacks all requests and redirects you to a page where you have to agree to a terms of use before it lets you connect to the actual outside world. This ...
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Australian Wifi Hotspot Providers [closed]
More informational than techy, but are there any Australians (or frequent visitors to Australia) who can tell me who the big players are in providing Wifi hotspots over there?
A colleague is going ...
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Establishing a hot spot
Can anyone hazard a guess as to the degree of difficulty and the approximate cost of establishing a hot spot at a small lake?
The spot in question is Lime Lake and it's a relatively shallow and ...
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Improve and boost the wifi connection to public hotspots
Are there software and/or hardware solutions that I could use to increase the wireless reception (to strengthen signal, reduce connection losses, etc.) to public hotspots?
I use a Trendnet TEW-444UB ...
