virtual wifi in windows 7 – 5 things you did not know

Long age, when HT technology was introduced, it revolutionized the way the Operating System uses the CPU. It  emulates a single core into multiple ones allowing different processes to take control separately, thereby allowing effective usage. Now its turn for the Wifi adapter. Microsoft has been working on something similar for wireless networks from 2002 and has finally introduced a virtual Wifi system in windows 7.

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With this advancement, we can use a single Wifi adapter on a system, divided into multiple connections. Here are some advantages with this new feature ::

• Our adapter is divided into multiple ones, so what next? Exactly as you guessed. We can connect to more than one hotspots at a single time.
• Virtual Wifi is based on the mesh network technology in which every client is also a repeater.
• As reception becomes more powerful, the largest constrain-the area of coverage for the network can also increase.
• As your network adapter is divided into multiple virtual networks, some of the virtual networks can also act as a repeater in a network, simply passing on signals to other computers thereby increasing speed considerably.
• As for using this feature, hardware vendors need to make minor changes to their drivers for the system to work.

My college has a wireless network which never performs optimally and on top of that they have put a total baud cap on it. This feature will let us use the network with a better speed. Good work Microsoft.