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How to Create a Wireless Home Network without a Router

Think you have a internet connection at your home and you want to share this connection across all your desktop and/or laptop computer, Wi-Fi enabled mobile, tablets, video game consoles like Xbox etc.etc and/or any other wireless devices that may have at your home.

So, How do you do this?

The simply way to setup a wireless network with the help of a router. Just attach a wireless router to your modem and add any Wi-Fi enabled gear, that's located inside the signal range of your router, will be able to connect to the web using that internet connection.

But today I am telling you How to Create a Wireless Home Network without any Router.

Now the setup process:

Consider a slightly different scenario, you have all types of Wi-Fi enabled devices at home but there's no router in your home. Well, there's no reasons to purchase one because you can still easily setup a wireless network as long as your computers have a wireless network adapter. If your computer doesn't have built-in wireless capabilities you can either buy a USB network adapter that plugs USB port of your desktop or go for a wireless adapter that directly plug into your notebook's PC card slot. Desktop users can also opt for an internal wireless PCI card but you'll have to open the computer case in order to install this network adapter.

Making a Wi-Fi Network without a Router

Now that you have everything in place to create a Wi-Fi network, let's actually build one.

For Windows XP and Vista users:

If your main computer, that is already connected to the internet, is running Windows XP,Vista or even Mac OSX, you can set up an ad-hoc Wi-Fi network and the other wireless devices can then connect to the web via this ad-hoc network also called a computer to computer network.

Wired Connection In, Wireless Connection Out

It's an easy process. To set up an ad-hoc network in Windows Vista, go to Network and Sharing Center from the control panel, select "Set up a connection or network" and choose "Set up a wireless ad-hoc network"[computer to computer].

Make sure that you select " Save this network " option else the ad hoc network will be removed if other computers / devices are connecting to the network.

Now Turn on Internet Sharing in the next Screen and now to your other home PC can connect to the ad-hoc network just like they would connect to any regular wireless network. Now, Setting up an ad hoc network in XP takes a couple of extra steps but you have to make sure the host computer is running at least XP SP2 or SP3.

For Windows 7 Users:

If you are on windows 7, you can instantly turn your computer into a personal Wi-Fi hotspot without having a configure anything. All your need can done by a free software called Virtual Router and the computer connected to the internet must be running Windows 7.

Using a Virtual router is simple- just run the program in widows 7 computer, assign a password and that's it. In, the above example , I used the virtual router too connect a iPod, an Ubuntu Linux Laptop and a widows desktop to the Internet via windows 7 where that Virtual router software was running. As a new device join the wireless network, their assigned IP and MAC addresses instantly appear in the virtual router window. And you may also can click the "Stop Router" for anytime to deactivate the hotspot and disable Internet Sharing.

Virtual Wi-Fi VS ad Hoc Wireless Networking

To set up AD Hoc networking, your main computer needs to have an Ethernet based internet connection and WLAN network adapter. In this case virtual Wi-fi, the Ethernet card is optional so, you can turn your Laptop into hotspot even if your laptop itself is connected to the Wireless Network and not to an Ethernet Cable. Computers and other wireless devices in an ad hoc network must be within 30 feet of each other but there is no such restriction in the case of virtual wireless networks.

Ad-hoc wireless network is available on Windows Xp, Vista and/or Windows 7, while Virtual WiFi , which is much easier to setup is available on Windows 7 and/or Windows Server 2008.

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