Turn your Windows PC / notebook to Wireless Router with My Wifi Router 3.0 and TP-Link TL-WN722N

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1 Turn your Windows PC / notebook to Wireless Router with My Wifi Router 3.0 and TP-Link TL-WN722N Author : admin I've been to home of my wife's parents and for this Christmas, they have received second hand Acer Aspire notebook as a Christmas gift. So far they were using internet using their Windows XP PC which is getting internet here in Belarus via UTP network cable using ByFly ZTE ADSL router modem. As ADSL modem lacked wifh WI-FI Antenna (support) and there was already the Acer notebook which had to access the internet preferrably via Wireless connection, the option was to get a WI-FI router and connect it to the ADSL modem but as this would cost (20 EUR at minimum) and there was alreay Wireless (Receiver) adapter TP-LINK TL-WN722N unused, I decided to try make the TP-LINK Receiver and Windows XP PC to act as a small Home Made Wireless (software) router. 1 / 7

2 Until I succeeded I've tried multiple softwares which all failed to turn the Windows PC to Wi-Fi Hotspot. Here is list of few of the softwares I tried that didn't worked for some reason: 1. Wifi HotSpot Creator Turn your PC into a Wi-Fi Router for Free! Instantly share your internet connection with your friends and peers over Wi-Fi. Turns your PC into a Wi-Fi Router! And its Free! Wifi HotSpot Creator is said to be able to convert any Mac OS X and Windows PC to hotspot here is Wifi HotSpot Creator download website Wifi HotSpot Creator is said to work with Windows Vista / XP / 7 / 8, however as I said it doesn't work for me on Windows XP. 2. Virtual Wifi router Here is With Virtual WiFi Router you can create a WiFi hotspot for WiFi Reverse Tethering on Windows 7 and for wifi supported mobiles and other wifi enabled computer to create a network and to share internet. Virtual Wifi Router in a minute converts your PC into a WiFi hot spot for free. To make the program working it depends on.net 4.5. Though the program looked like a superb it unfortunately was crashing on Windows XP. Below are few screenshots from program working on Windows 7. 2 / 7

3 3. My Wifi Router 3.0 Finally I've come across My Wifi Router 3.0 which is just another program that makes necessery Windows configuration to TP-Link TL-WN722N Wireless receiver Adapter to turn it into a homemade Wi-Fi router. 3 / 7

4 By default Amiss_papp Wifi is configured, this can be changed, however in my case when I tried changing it there were some issues, so finally I've had to re-install My Wifi Router to make it working again. Once configured My Wifi Router there is the green button (Activate / Deactivate Free Wifi) as seen from screenshot. As you can see My Wifi Router also allows to Share Videos over WiFi. Once I've tested the program and confirmed it as working, I had to configure it to automatically start on Windows PC boot. This is done from Settings (located on backward triangle button, next to minimize function). I had to set check in to Auto Start and Software Conflict Detection. 4 / 7

5 Once connected to the TP-Link TL-WN722N (USB) Wi-Fi (High Gain) Receiver adapter in Windows Tray a new indicator will popup that a device has been connected. I've tested My Wifi Router and it seem to be working fine with 3 remote connected Wi-Fi devices (1 Notebook and 2 Nokia Lumia mobile phones). The speed of internet was fast and if I didn't know the connection is done in a software way via such an improvised Windows XP Wi-Fi network router I would think it is just a regular Wi-Fi network router. One more thing I had to do to make the internet working I had to share the the LAN Network (ethernet card) Interface's internet from Control Panel -> Networking -> Local Area Connection (Properties) -> Advanced 5 / 7

6 A downside of My Wifi Router is I couldn't find a way to save password while connection to the newly created WiFi router with it, so each time I had to login I had to manually type in the password (default my wifi router password is ). Re-typing password on each login is annoying but if you have to do it once per day in the morning when you turn on your notebook it is not such a big deal. Once connected to My Wifi Router in Connection Management in Friends (tab) you will see a list with connected devices. 6 / 7

7 Powered by TCPDF ( Walking in Light with Christ - Faith, Computing, Diary As visible from above screenshot default IPs which will be assigned to new connected clients to My Wifi Router will be in local network IP range Now all left is to Enjoy your new Software Wi-Fi router :) 7 / 7