Can desktop act as "wireless" router?

Jeff Liebermann <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Yes. Given the choice between wireless and wired, the best streaming
>video and minimum VoIP packet loss is with wired ethernet.

Thanks for your advice Jeff!

Fred McKenzie <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Dave's ad hoc suggestion may be the answer you need.

well I can always TRY the ad hoc connection first and
if it doesn't work go buy the wireless router second I
suppose

Dave <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2:52 pm, m...@privacy.net wrote:
> > Rather than buying a stand alone wireless router....can
> > a person just configure his desktop with wireless card
> > to ACT as a wireless "router" and save some desk space
> > if short on space?

> Yes. If you enable an ad hoc network your desktop can act as a server
> for other wireless devices. Just search on "ad hoc network" to see how
> it's done.

I was in a little coffee shop that just opened. Their WiFi wasn't up yet,
and they were "borrowing" access from an adjoining business.

They had some software running on a wireless Windows laptop, and it
appeared as a normal WAP Infrastructure to me, not an AdHoc, as I expected.

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