Turn your laptop into a wireless Access Point

There are a couple of use scenarios where I find useful to providing wireless access from your laptop:

• Creating a network “island” without a router;
• Sharing internet access to other laptops where only one wired point is available;
• Providing network and internet access to your PDA where no AP is available. My favorite usage :)

Here are a couple of tools:

• Virtual Router (Codeplex)
• Connectify

Please note: at least for Virtual Router, there’s a (short) wireless network card short compatible list.