Turn your Windows 7 laptop into a WiFi Hotspot to share the internet with friends, family, mobile devices or colleagues. Take any internet connection and share it wirelessly with any number of devices with no additional hardware.
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.
How to share internet connection wirelessly
To get started, click on the Connectify logo 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.
Connectify Says:
Thanks for writing about Connectify. We thought you may want to know that Connectify 1.0 is now available for free as the first production ready release. Some older wireless cards do not yet have full Windows 7 support, and for those devices Connectify will act as an Ad Hoc connection manager, instead of a full blown Wi-Fi Access Point.
Thank you again for your support.
satyank Says:
I am using Windows 7 on my WiFi PC and used “connectify” to connect my wifi mobile to internet. Thanks to techmynd.com and connectify to solve my problem. Its very simple to install and use. Its really works and i am fully satisfied. I rank this application *****
Dr Patel Says:
Is there a way to Turn Windows XP (SP3) Laptop into a WiFi Hotspot – Share Laptop Internet with mobile device like iPhone
bawa35 Says:
Thanks a million, this one really works, i,ve been searching for something like this since ages. thanks once again
ironiq Says:
i hav a pppoe connection and i think that is blocking my acces to internet. i find the wifi with connectify but the internet and cydia doesnt works. what should i do?
Dr Jaydeep Says:
I tried the above method. I am using windows 7. But when i tried to access on my phone i got a pop up “no gateway reply”. Author, please help me out.
milorad81 Says:
Ironiq,same thing is with me,any help????? please
davey68 Says:
does it work for a usb air card internet? author help me out
Hiroshi Says:
@davey68: I hope so. Haven’t tried that with USB though.
name Says:
@davey68:
i am having the same problem, i have tried to get this to work many times it just seems as if there is no way to creat a hot spot if you use a aircard i have a att usb aircard. but yea if anyone knows how to do it using a aircard help would be much appreciated
Patrick Says:
Does not work for me.
Tried to share my 3g connection with a Ipod Touch. Connection and signal is fine, the Ipod have timeout on every web sites.. Data does not want to pass thru. Its a fail for me.
el Says:
wow.. amazing.. thx bro..