Ad-Hoc Network Creator

Ad-Hoc Network Creator provides you with a Windows 8 utility to make it easier for you to wirelessly connect to your mobile devices through the use of your wireless network adapter. This way, you can also quickly and easily establish an ad-hoc network between two computers.

First things first, ad-hoc networks refer to infrastructure-less wireless networks, with no trace of another network equipment but the actual computers or other mobile devices presenting wireless capabilities. This means no wireless router or any other similar equipment. This is also called a peer-to-peer connection, as the devices are directly connected to each other, through their very own technology.

Within such setups, you have to make sure that the connected devices are fairly close to each other and that other interferences are as minimized as possible. Moreover, ad-hoc networks offer little if no security at all, pretty weak signal strength as well as slower speeds than what an infrastructure wireless network would be able to provide.

Nonetheless, there are many occasions when all of the above just do not matter as an ad-hoc wireless connection between two devices is all you need in order to exchange files and even share an Internet connection. While Windows should be enough to do that, Ad-Hoc Network Creator offers a far more simplistic approach. With this particular piece of software, all you have to do is make sure your wireless network adapter is on, open the program, enter the SSID (Service Set Identifier) of your very own choice and the corresponding password and that’s it.

Using Ad-Hoc Network Creator you can also share the Internet connection from your wired network card through the established ad-hoc network. While this cannot be done within Ad-Hoc Network Creator, you can access the ‘Properties’ window of your LAN connection adapter, go to ‘Sharing’ tab section and tick the first option, select the appropriate home networking connection (the one virtually created by the application) and click ‘OK’.

This would not be possible if your LAN connection gets its IP address as well as the other details from a DHCP server; however, with Ad-Hoc Network Creator, you can accomplish that quite easily. Ad-Hoc Network Creator is not the best software for this type of job, but, with some thought put in it and intuition, it can prove to be a very helpful companion.