Posted by Alex on September 27, 2010 under Uncategorized | Comments are off for this article
We are proud to announce that Connectify version 2.1 is now available!
Connectify is a free Windows 7 application that turns your laptop or home computer into a real Wi-Fi hotspot to share the Internet with friends, co-workers, and mobile devices. Connectify allows you to take any available Internet connection and share it wirelessly with no additional hardware, wires, plugs, or chargers.
New features in version 2.1.0.16410:
Support for PS3 and XBox 360 clients
Runs on Windows 7 Starter Edition
Support for more wireless devices
Can now share VPN connections
Easy bug reporting: If something goes wrong, select “Submit Error Report” from the menu, and you can easily submit your issue, and a detailed log files back to us, so that we can help you.
As usual, thanks to all who participated in our beta test program and joined in on the conversation at our Facebook page. We got a huge amount of great feedback, which we in turn used to improve the software.
Update the Internet connection combo box sooner when connections change. Seems that at least some of the confusion about 3G cards in the last beta is that you need to connect your 3G card before starting Connectify to be able to share it, which should be clearer now, as you should reliably see the 3G whenever it’s connected, and not when it isn’t
Support for computers that have “bridged” their Ethernet and Wi-Fi devices. Note that you cannot bridge the Virtual Wi-Fi adapter to another device. This is a Microsoft-imposed restriction
New, easy “Report Problem” option on the menu to report a problem and send your logs to our technical support. Makes it much easier for you to reach out to us when you have a problem, it automatically includes all the technical details that we might want to ask you about
A number of performance and stability improvements
Added the source code to the modified ManagedWifi library that we’re using. Under the installation directory, it’s in the “source” subdirectory
Now the not-so-fantastic-news: Many of the complaints about the last beta have turned out to be related to Atheros’ Windows 7 Wi-Fi drivers. A number of people with Atheros cards have complained of the Network and Sharing Center hanging, Windows not shutting down, or even the occasional blue screen of death. We finally managed to reach someone at Atheros… they now have the crash files and test code to reproduce the problems, so hopefully they can quickly identify and fix their issues.
So, if you have any problems, just go the menu and click “Submit Error Report”, and if you’re like to discuss the software or have ideas to improve it, join us on our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/connectify
A special thanks to all those users who reported issues on our Facebook page and sent us their log files. This helped us identify and resolve issues in record time.
Changes since beta 2:
Better support for non-Roman language versions of Windows, includes fixes for errors on starting hotspot, client connections failing, and for the names of the Internet connections showing with ‘?’ in the name (fully tested in Swedish, fixes should help others as well).
Support for clients that use statically configured DNS servers (such as OpenDNS)
Icons for more vendors (Canon, Sharp, Murata, Quanta).
Connectify now alerts Windows power management that the Wi-Fi is really in use to prevent Wi-Fi cards from going to sleep at inappropriate times. Does not stop the entire machine from going to sleep (if you want to do that change your settings manually in Control Panel’s Power Management applet), just stops the Wi-Fi card from going to sleep by itself.
The biggest new feature is that Connectify now has full support for connecting the Playstation 3 and XBox 360 to their respective online services.
There are also more small improvements than we can list here: improved speed and connection stability, support for more wireless devices, automatic recognition of more manufacturers, correct operation on computers that have the same MAC address on multiple network devices, etc.
So please download it, give it a spin and tell us what you think. Send emails to support@connectify.me, if you have any issues. We look forward to hearing from you.
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