Turn laptop into a wifi hotspot

Turn laptop into a wifi hotspot

Wants to share your internet from laptop via WiFi to other compatible devices? You can turn your laptop into a WiFi Hotspot to wirelessly share any Internet connection: a cable modem, a cellular card, or even another Wi-Fi network to other WiFi device like laptop, desktop or mobile phones. Take any internet connection and share it wirelessly with any number of devices with no additional hardware.

Connectify is a free and easy to use software router for Windows 7 computers. After downloading and installing the lightweight application, Connectify utilizes your computers' built in Wi-Fi card to wirelessly share any available Internet connection: a cable modem, a cellular card, or even another Wi-Fi network. Other Wi-Fi enabled devices including laptops, smart phones, music players, and gaming systems can see and join your Connectify hotspot just like any other Wi-Fi access point and are kept safe and secure by password-protected WPA2 Encryption. With Connectify you can share expensive airport Wi-Fi with co-workers, create a hotspot in your ethernet-only hotel or dorm room, even extend the range of your home router. The possibilities are endless.
With ADSL/DSL internet connection, we tend to have a modem / router to connect laptops / computers to the internet. The problem arises when we want to connect through a wireless mobile device and we want to use internet on it using our ADSL/DSL connection, we can not connect the mobile device through the ethernet cable. It can only be connected wirelessly. Here is a software based solution. Connectify is a software based wireless router which turns laptop wireless into a full blown WiFi hotspot so that other wireless devices can connect to it for using the internet. It will work for Windows 7 based Laptops only.

Connectify Version 2.2.0 - 2.2.0.18699:
~Updated look and feel
~Installer should no longer be incorrectly flagged by Microsoft ~Security Essentials
~Fixed Windows XP SP3 clients not receiving DNS addresses (caused by this Windows bug: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953761)
~Fixed handling of incorrect DNS NXDomain from some name servers
~Support for more VPN software (OpenVPN)
~Better memory and resource handling, especially while using UPnP
~More icons and names for vendors

How to Share Internet Connection Wirelessly Using Connectify:
~To get started, click on the Connectify icon in the Notification Tray.
~Select the Internet connection you wish to share
~Choose a name for your new wireless network
~Choose a wireless passphrase
~If the Mode box is visible, select “Access Point” if it is in the menu, otherwise, use “Ad Hoc”.
~Press the Start Hotspot Sharing button to turn on your wireless network
~Now from your other devices, you can see your wireless network. Choose to join it, and enter the wireless passphrase to connect.