Microsoft Virtually Duplicates Your Wireless Card

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."

Comments

What the crap?

[wolrahnaes]

This just doesn't look like typical Microsoft, and IMO that's a good thing...

Source code, a simple web site, and command line operation.....what more could I ask for?

Thanks, Microsoft (geez I still feel wierd saying that....)

Re:With Source ??? !!!

[lisaparratt]

They're probably too busy finishing their software to finish their website. Shame the same can't be said for a lot of open source projects.

Re:With Source ??? !!!

[wangotango]

They likely created the page in about two minutes. It looks like a page which was originally created for internal employee access, functional only with no intent towards glamour.

Not necessarily a good thing?

[Illserve]

At the moment, wireless AP's don't have to worry about frequent switching.

But if everyone and their brother started using these things, suddenly a given AP is going to have to deal with a huge amount of hookup requests.

Now admittedly I don't know much about the guts of an AP, and how limited their processing ability is (apart from bandwidth)... but this certainly isn't what they were designed for. I would be surprised if they could handle this kind of abuse from multiple users.

Or am I completely off base?

Re:Brute force removal by regedit...ugggh

[Bandman]

come on, this software isn't even anywhere near actual release. Give the guy a break. It doesn't come with a gui and the ability to check mail yet either.