making desktop into wireless point

[rory129]

i was wondering how i make my wifi adapter into a wireless access point once i am plugged into a LAN connection

 

[AdmnPower]

You can't do it with windows but if you were to install pFsense on your computer you could run it as an access point. This would only work if you were planning to use the computer as an access point and nothing else though.

 

[Damorian]

It is possible, I set them up occasionally when others around me need wifi. I wrote a nice guide for Vista/win 7 here. It's pretty easy to do.

http://thegreatdamorian.com/howtos/wifiap1.html

 

[rory129]

hey thanks for the tutorial and i just wonder why windows made it more difficult to do because i have done it on my macbook multiple times and it is so simple

 

[Damorian]

hey thanks for the tutorial and i just wonder why windows made it more difficult to do because i have done it on my macbook multiple times and it is so simple

No problem and me either. On Macs it's incredibly simple. I would've assumed Microsoft would've made it easier in their new OS since it's a pretty handy function. Hope it works out for you.