Turn Your Laptop into a Wi-Fi Hotspot with Connectify

Ishayat August 12, 2011 2

Connectify is a free wireless networking software that helps you to share your internet connection with other Wi-Fi enabled devices by turning your laptop into a hotspot. This free wireless networking software is specially designed for Windows 7 PCs.  It uses the built-in Wi-Fi card that comes with the laptop for creating a Wi-Fi hotspot.

People can share any active internet connection including a cellular card or a cable modem. Once you have turned your laptop into a hotspot, you will be able to use internet from your Wi-Fi devices including your smart phones, gaming systems, laptops and even music players. They will be able to join this hotspot just like you access to any Wi-Fi access point. Moreover, you will be able to keep your connection secure by adding password. It’s very easy to turn your laptop into a hotspot with this free wireless networking software.

With this free wireless networking software, you can share expensive airport Wi-Fi with other people who have Wi-Fi device or you can create a hotspot in a hotel room or dorm room. You can also extend the range of your home router in this way. There was a problem with the installer earlier as it was flagged by Microsoft Security Essentials but it’s fixed on the latest version. The latest version also supports a lot of VPN software and its resource and memory handling is also better.

Features of Connectify:

  • Turn your laptop into a Wi-Fi access point
  • Better resource and memory handling
  • Supports a lot of VPN software

Connectify is available for download at Connectify’s official website. It’s only 2.34MB in size and supports Windows 7 only. Try Connectify Free

2 Comments »

  1. krish September 2, 2011 at 10:18 pm - Reply

    dude….we have “mhotspot” for the same purpose but the advantages are..

    1.no need to install the software

    2.no system crashes

    its kool..

    http://www.mhotspot.com

    jus check it once….

  2. kamal January 22, 2012 at 11:21 am - Reply

    hello

    can we create a setup for windows XP machine?

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