Chris Pietschmann

After all, this UI is a feature that should have been baked into Windows 7 anyway!

Hi Chris,

Looks great, but I have a couple of questions, I'm sure you will be able to answer. First, I tried Connectify and on  two machines it told me that no compatible Wifi drivers were found. Would I have the same problems with this app or does it use the  drivers as used by Win7? That also brings me to  the second question: In my house we have two Wifi networks. Would I be able to combine the two into one virtual Wifi network/hotspot? I've seen this mentioned in an earlier version of the Microsoft Research project that delivered these APIs.

Keep up the good work.

Hey Chris,
Tried it but I get "Virtual Router could not be started." I know my wifi radio works as I can connect to an existing wifi router...any ideas?

Greg, you'll want to check that the Virtual Router Service is started. Plus, you'll need to have drivers installed for your wireless card that are Certified for Windows 7.

Robert, presumably you would have the same issue with Virtual Router working that you described having with Connectify. The only real way to find out though is to install it and try using it. As a note, both Connectify and Virtual Router use the same Windows API's for Wireless Hosted Networks.

Chris, I'll bet that's it...the drivers...I'll check it out when I get back to that machine. Thanks for the help...

Hello. Thank you for this program, but I have the same problem as Greg, "Virtual Router could not be started". The wi-fi card is USB-adapter Asus WL-167. Driver is Windows 7 default automatically assigned (not Asus) driver.

Yeah, i have the same problem.  I have a linksys pci-adapter with SRX, but it says "Virtual Router could not be started".  Any ideas?

Please reference the Frequently Asked Questions within the Virtual Router Documentation. There you will find a list of "known" supported devices and an explanation of why some devices may not work.

http://virtualrouter.codeplex.com/documentation

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I try to install your application. It's good idea. But I can't run.
I checked service is started. My adapter is Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter.
My OS is Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

I got this error msg.
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException was unhandled
  Message="Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation."
  Source="mscorlib"
  at VirtualRouterClient.App.Main()
  InnerException: System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException
       Message="An error occurred while receiving the HTTP response to http://localhost:31337/VirtualRouter/service. This could be due to the service endpoint binding not using the HTTP protocol. This could also be due to an HTTP request context being aborted by the server (possibly due to the service shutting down). See server logs for more details."

PS. I download your 0.9 Beta and Latest source code(41376). Try to build, it succeed. But same problem. How can I debug?

Just downloaded, installed and connected to the virtual network via my iPhone. I am really excited. Thnks. I will be waitng for your next project.
Good Luck

Nice work. Very informative article. I will love to bookmark you for the future preferences. Thanks for sharing.




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George

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I guess there's always an easier way ...

I'm going to have to buy win7. I've yet to make the transition, but it seems it has a lot of new features like this in it, plus I'm tired of vista's UAC.

Mm, excellent, but how about windows xp? Can we get some for windows xp edition?

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This is such a cool application.  I'd love to try it with my netbook!  I've been looking for a solution to allowing two people to tether to my cell phone at the same time and this is it!  Thanks for making this free to all!

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It worked! Thanks for the help.

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I am going to have to get windows 7 to get this set up. It'd be perfect for my needs.