Trouble making an Ad-hoc connection work

Siberian

Siberian

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I've got a stationary PC with a cable connection. It also has a wireless adapter which at this point just sits there. I've read about this Ad-hoc possibility - which supposedly turns my wireless adapter into a router. Correct me if I'm wrong about that. Most of the tutorials out there are quite similar to say this one:

http://lifehacker.com/5369381/turn-your-windows-7-pc-into-a-wireless-hotspot

But, I haven't been able to make it work. The setup itself goes good, but when looking at it in the list of available networks it says "no signal", and no wireless device is able to identify it.

There is another way that involves enabling the Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter. This actually works, but I'd really like to know why the first method doesn't. Any ideas?
 
I'm a bit confused, you say when you look in the list of available networks it says no signal, but then you say no device is able to identify it. Does your ad-hoc network show up at all on another machine? How close are these devices to each other?
 
Siberian said:
There is another way that involves enabling the Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter. This actually works, but I'd really like to know why the first method doesn't. Any ideas?
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The ad-hoc feature implements/requires the virtual adapter.

Personally, I would just use a router as you would have a much larger feature set while consuming a noticeably lesser amount of electricity.
 
Make sure your Wireless card is broadcasting, sometimes wireless cards don't come with the capability of broadcasting a signal, only receiving one.
 
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