Wi-Fi Hotspots
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.
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
PdaNet turns your smartphone into a true WiFi router for your computer (MAC or PC), and allows your laptop to go online wirelessly through the 3G network.
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Windows Mobile
- Android
- iPhone
- HP webOS
- Blackberry
- Cydia
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.
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
+1MyPublicWiFi 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.
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
+2RADIUSdesk is a powerful and user-friendly RADIUS network management platform designed to simplify the administration of network authentication and accounting.
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Free • Open Source
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Raspberry Pi OS
- OpenWrt
- Docker
+5OpenWISP is a free and open-source platform for efficient IT network deployment, monitoring & management. It allows automation of many aspects of networks: from configuration to monitoring, RADIUS, hotspots, mesh and firmware upgrades, all backed by the reliability of the...
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
+2Virtual Router turns any Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 computer into a Wifi hotspot using Windows 7 Wireless Hosted Network (Virtual Wifi) technology.
Discontinued- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
It can turn your Windows 7 PC (when equipped with a WiFi card) into a WiFi router. Windows 7 has an option to create AdHoc networks but devices like phones and tablets will not be able to connect to this network.
Warning- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
TetherMe enables the native tethering feature on all jailbroken iPhones and 3G iPads, so that you can tether your 3G connection for free. It works by telling the iPhone to allow tethering on any APN that is used for iPhone data.
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Paid • Proprietary
- iPhone
- iPad
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.
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
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).
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
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.
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Free • Proprietary
- Android
LibreMesh is a set of modules extending the OpenWrt router distribution to create self-configuring wireless and wired mesh networks.
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Free • Proprietary
- Linux
- OpenWrt
- LEDE - Linux Embedded Development Environment
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
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
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.
Warning- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Free • Open Source
- Windows