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Microsoft Virtually Duplicates Your Wireless Card

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the engineers-having-fun dept.

akhomerun writes "Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its experimental new VirtualWiFi Software. The free software enables Windows users to use a single wireless card to connect to multiple wireless networks simultaneously. The current build is a very primitive release, with no support for WEP or WPA encryption."

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  1. Not free software by frp001 · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is Shared Source NOT free software.

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  2. Original Page... by perlionex · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... found using Google, at: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/ranveer/multinet/ software.htm And the author's page, which follows quite naturally: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/ranveer/ ...which, if you look at it, will explain the origins of this "Microsoft" project :) His papers on "MultiNet" date back to June 2003.

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  3. Re:What the crap? by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Informative

    I see it's from their research division... They sometimes seem uncorrupted by their marketing machine. ;-) They have other projects going on too, like ConferenceXP (yes indeed, source here too), and Netscan. Kind of interesting projects actually.

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  4. Re:I wonder... by svanstrom · · Score: 4, Informative

    You could use it to share a WLAN with a second computer/PDA/whatever, which can't connect directly... either because it's too far away, or isn't allowed (hasn't paid, not part of the company or simply blocked because some idiot login-requirements forcing people to use IE).

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  5. Re:Network Bridge? by Fortress · · Score: 4, Informative
    Does this mean we can connect to an AP and then connect using ad-hoc using the same card to another computer? This would result in a relay

    Only if there is routing between the two connections, which I suspect will be optional.

  6. Re:Network Bridge? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 4, Informative
    Does this mean we can connect to an AP and then connect using ad-hoc using the same card to another computer? This would result in a relay
    Only if there is routing between the two connections, which I suspect will be optional.
    Or bridging. Windows XP has built-in bridging. Bridging is different than routing in that it occurs on Layer 2, while routing occurs on Layer 3.

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