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"Glen \"Wiley\" Wilson" wrote:

This may be of interest to Skip and others playing with wireless.
Microsoft is developing a new technology called "Virtual Wi-Fi". It
virtualizes a single wireless card to appear to the user as multiple
cards. Benefits cited:

# With VirtualWiFi, you can connect to a guest's machine or play
games over an ad hoc network, while surfing the web via an
infrastructure network.
# You can use VirtualWiFi to connect your ad hoc network, which may
contain many nodes, to the Internet using only one node.
# VirtualWiFi can help make your home infrastructure network elastic
by extending its access to nodes that are out of range of your home
WiFi Access Point.

I don't know much more than that, but you can get a little more info
at

http://research.microsoft.com/netres...fi/default.htm


It looks rather experimental at this point. I don't have a spare
machine to install it on right now, so I'd be interested in reports
from anyone that plays with it.

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Glen "Wiley" Wilson usenet1 SPAMNIX at world wide wiley dot com
To reply, lose the capitals and do the obvious.

Take a look at cpRepeater, my NMEA data integrator, repeater, and
logger at http://www.worldwidewiley.com/

This is nothing more than MultiHoming with Multithreading, and MacOS has
been doing it since 10.1.5. When is Billy Gates going to admit, that
hegets most of his ideas from other peoples workproduct.


Me one who wonders.......