Hardware

No additional hardware needed! Say you have your wireless router in the office of your house, directly above or below the office the signal is great, but when you reach out to the far corners, there’s such a low signal or even no signal at all that you can’t even browse or check your email.  Even running a ping yields packet loss.  If your computer already has a wireless card and Windows 7, you can magically give your wireless router a boost from that room above or below the office, extending the range of the signal to areas of your home or office that were dead zones before.

Microsoft has been working on a software layer called Virtual Wifi (VWifi for short) for a while now, and it appears to have made a hidden entrance in Windows 7.  The layer abstracts your wireless card’s hardware into multiple virtual adapters, enabling your Windows 7 machine to become a wireless access point while it’s connected to your router via wireless using the same adapter! Best of all, it’s surprisingly easy to set up:
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