AD-Hoc question

Since my NDS doesn't WPA/2 (WTF Nintendo?), and there is no way I'm switching back to WEP, I've though about making an Ad-hoc with my laptop.

Is there a way to have the ad-hoc and be connected to my network at the same time? When I set it up on Windows I get disconnected from my network

 

There is, but it can be an iffy, experimental proposition, at least that's what I just learned doing a quick google on the question.

Generally speaking, the physical h/w can do it, but it requires sophisticated software, which generally isn't MS' forte. At any rate, here are two little gems I plucked from my google search:

1) A posting in the dslreports.com forums, describing the poster's accidental discovery of how to simultaneously access internet through an infrastructure network and print to a wireless capable printer on an ad-hoc network, and

2) An experimental app from research.microsoft.com called VirtualWiFi that creates virtual interfaces (on the same physical h/w) that can be independently configured, thereby permitting simultaneous access to an infrastructure network on one virtual interface, and access to an ad-hoc network on another virtual interface.

I would imagine, however, that with only one physical interface, your throughput on either connection will suffer quite noticeably.

 

Hey, thanks! I'll check if that works.

 

There's also another app that was posted in the Best Free Software for Windows forum yesterday by pascallee called Net Profiles that's a bit of freeware from an outfit called Milner Solutions that might (although I'm not entirely sure) be of interest. The main point of the app is to allow a user to set up and quickly shift between different profiles for different networks, so perhaps they've also gone the next step as well and developed functionality to allow multiple logical interfaces to run through one physical interface?

 

Ok

I tried with 2 wireless connection (I have an USB wireless card) on my laptop. It "worked" but no internet on the DS. When I try to enable connection sharing, windows crashes >_>