Today I want to share how great Connectify is if you want to make a wi-fi hotspot from your wired internet connected Windows 7 PC.

Recently I just got myself a portable multimedia gadget that need wi-fi for its internet access. So I need someway to share my internet connection from my laptop to that device.

After quick search I found connectify and tried it. At first I ran into some issues, not because the connectify itself but because I never really use my wireless card on my laptop and didn’t know that it had some issues from day one. After re-installing the driver for it from the manufacturer’s support site, the wireless card got detected and it ready to go.

So basically connectify make it really simple for you to share the internet connection.  You just need to provide SSH ID (the name of the wi-fi network you want to create), the password to join, and the internet connection that you want to share from your PC and that’s it, connectify will do the rest for you. (*note: if you are a tech savvy, you could create the batch for this connection without connectify, but if you are just a normal user than go for connectify to make your life easier)

Today when I boot up my laptop I got notification that newer connectify is up. I’m currently on version 2.1 and 2.2 is the newer one. Without hesitation I upgrade the version to 2.2

But ironically it didn’t work. So I reverted back to version 2.1 and everything went OK again. I guess the saying don’t fix it if it ain’t break holds true here. Well for the time being I will use version 2.1 for now.

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