Wi-Fi Hotspot Utilities
Wireless Internet access can often be taken for granted in today’s increasingly Internet-enabled world. When you and your friends or family are out on vacation or a business trip and find yourself in a place without wi-fi access, your options can seem slim. That’s where software that can turn your device with cellular data access into a wi-fi enabled hotspot comes in!
Apps like Connectify Hotspot will enable people around you to connect to your computer as if it was a Internet-enabled router.
NetSpot is a simple and accessible wireless survey tool, which allows collecting, visualizing and analyzing Wi-Fi data.
NetSpot Features
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With Connectify Hotspot, you can transform your PC into a real WiFi hotspot, and share your computer’s Internet connection as Wi-Fi with any other PC or mobile device.
Connectify Hotspot Features
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Virtual Router turns any Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 computer into a Wifi hotspot using Windows 7 Wireless Hosted Network (Virtual Wifi) technology.
Virtual Router Features
DiscontinuedThe project is no longer developed. Last version, 1.0, released in February 2013, can be still downloaded from CodePlex, but it may not work.
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MyPublicWiFi is an easy-to-use software that turns your laptop/PC into a Wi-Fi wireless access point. Anyone nearby can surf the Internet through your sharing. This is also an ideal solution for setting up a temporary Access Point in a hotel room,meeting room,at home or the like.
MyPublicWiFi Features
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- 11 Swift WiFi - Free WiFi Hotspot Portable alternatives
- Free • Proprietary
- Android
100 million installs strong, Swift WiFi is the #1 FREE portable WiFi hotspot app on mobile. Download Swift WiFi - Free WiFi Hotspot and enjoy the free WiFi app to let you find & connect to shared WiFi around the world.
Swift WiFi - Free WiFi Hotspot Portable Features
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Improvements from Virtual Router :
- Works on Windows 8 and Windows 2012
- Solved the problem of "Virtual router could not be started"
- No installation needed
- Do not start background service so anything is under your control.
Virtual Router Plus Features
WarningChrome blocks download from official site. Use Sourceforge download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualrouterpl/
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create_ap - This script creates a NATed or Bridged WiFi Access Point. The create_ap script combines hostapd, dnsmasq and iptables to create a Bridged/NATed Access Point
create_ap Features
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- 6 Wireless Tether for Root Users alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Android
This program enables tethering (via wifi and bluetooth) for "rooted" Android phones. With Wireless Tether, your laptops and other devices can connect to your phone's 3G or 2G connection over WiFi.
Wireless Tether for Root Users Features
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- 21 LibreMesh alternatives
- Free • Proprietary
- Linux
- OpenWrt
- LEDE - Linux Embedded Development Environment
LibreMesh is a set of modules extending the OpenWrt router distribution to create self-configuring wireless and wired mesh networks.
LibreMesh Features
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OpenWISP is a software platform that can be used to implement a complete public wifi service.
OpenWISP Features
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Share your VPN connection over hotspot or repeater! (root required) - Mygod/VPNHotspot
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Connect to WiFi passwords for FREE internet access all over the world!
The most popular WiFi application
*** TOP 1 in 50 countries *** TOP 1 in Travel category in 100 countries *** Contains to 100 million WiFi hotspots!.
WiFi Map — Free Passwords Features
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Feature-rich wifi hotspot creator for Linux which provides both GUI and command-line interface. It is also able to create a hotspot using the same wifi card which is connected to an AP already ( Similar to Windows 10).
Linux Wifi Hotspot Features
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Set of batch scripts that can be used on Windows 7 to share your wifi connection with any mobile device. This script is especially made for android mobile devices.
AndroidWifi Features
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Wefi has compiled the world's largest collection of free and safe wifi hotspots in order to help you easily find and automatically connect to the best quality FREE and secured Wi-Fi, conserve your precious cellular data plan and battery life.
WeFi Features
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