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    The new Access Connections 5.61 offers P2P technology?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by garga, Mar 28, 2010.

  1. garga

    garga Notebook Guru

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    Would someone tell me if the P2P functionality that appeared in the new version of Access Connections can be used with other non-Lenovo laptops?

    Is it something like the good old-fashion "self-WiFi-hotspoting-on-a-stick" thing:

    netsh wlan set hostednetwork ssid=test1234 key=test1234 keyUsage=temporary mode=allow
    netsh wlan start hostednetwork

    Or is the functionality just a plain ad-hoc connection or is it something completely different?
     
    garga, Mar 28, 2010
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  2. jonlumpkin

    jonlumpkin NBR Transmogrifier

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    I'll assume this refers to the "My Wi-Fi" technology that Intel offers. This has been available in the full Intel drivers (not the one on Lenovo's site) for quite some time. It allows the Intel 5100/5300 (and presumably 6200/6300) to serve as a simultaneous wireless client on one network and access point for other computers. It seems it was finally brought into access connections.
     
    jonlumpkin, Mar 29, 2010
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  3. garga

    garga Notebook Guru

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    It does not seem to be the same as Intel's My WiFi. I could never get the feature working anyway but the commands I posted are pretty much the same as Intel's My WiFI but does not take 20MB :). Other than this, AFAIK the virtualization technology in win 7 works great with other wifi cards too as long as they have the new style driver, it is not a feature unique to Intel.
     
    garga, Apr 1, 2010
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    pkincy Notebook Evangelist

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    I can't seem to get it to work with my XP equipped older HP.

    I suppose it is possible that both puters need Access Connections 5.61 or higher installed and my HP XP doesn't.

    That would be interesting since I would love to get an IPAD wifi rather than an IPAD 3G in order to never deal with AT&T.

    Perry
     
    pkincy, May 9, 2010
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