Sony VAIO Y and Z Series morph into MiFis with Share My Connection

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/17/sony-vaio-y-and-z-series-morph-into-mifis-with-share-my-connecti/

tl;dr Future Sony Z/Ys can be used as mini wifi hotspots!

Another reason to buy the Z

 

Cool, I wonder if it works if you use a USB mobile broadband stick? Or is it only applicable to integrated 3G?

 

It would probably be able to work with an external broadband stick; if it was only applicable to the integrated 3G. I would be really disappointed.

 

That feature has been available in Windows for YEARS. And its easy to do in Win7, unlike XP. Just clever marketing.

 

yeah, its all software based not hardware based, if it was a hardware based component then it would be something to be jumping around for. but yeah its been around for a long time, but i guess its for those people who arent techie friendly they're the kinda people who would jump for things like this thinking its a better deal on such a nice feature

 

...what's a mifi

 

An advertising name for using your own notebook as a wifi hotspot for a limited number of other devices.

 

Really? Please tell me how in windows do you establish a WWAN connection and then share it with MULTIPLE computers via wifi with no additional software?

 

Ad-hoc connection.

 

1.) Establish WWAN connection.

2.) Go through this wizard in the "Network and Sharing Center" selecting Ad-Hoc...


3.) Enjoy

You can even share dial-up this way if that's your thrill..lol

 

Ad hoc will allow multiple computers to connect? Spec only allowed for one but I know cards were getting around this.

What are the guest computers doing for IP addresses and DHCP?

Are the guest computers now seeing all your network shares as well?

 

Well, the whole setup is much easier than manual with a little utility called Connectify. Works like a charm on Windows 7

 

Ad-Hoc uses DHCP to assign client's addresses. ALTHOUGH they're ONLY local addresses. Ad-Hoc clients under Vista/7 are assigned 192.168.xxx.xxx. I've never tested more than 15 machines, and this was on a Dell Latitude e6400 with dual band WiFi. The 5.8GHz band was connected to the Router/AP and the 2.4GHz band was sharing the 5.8GHz N connection through Ad-Hoc. It hosted 15 notebooks fine. Though with that kind of setup you have to have special drivers and Windows 7 is the only one that supports that kind of setup.

And I've never really thought about looking for local shares. I'll get back to you on that one.

 

^Thanks for responding. Ad-hoc certainly has come a long way since I used it in XP days I could swear you had to manually set all the ip addresses still or you would get assigned a private (ie 164.xx) address but I haven't screwed around with it in a long time. I may have to play around some.

 

Old XP, bless it...lol. Yes, XP was like that. They were usually 169.x.x.x addresses, and NOTHING would work until you went in and manually assigned them all IP's and put them all on the same subnet, and CLEARLY defined a gateway IP. It worked, but man was it ugly. Cisco IOS was easier to configure than XP.