Tethering and mobile hotspots are great if you’re a frequent traveller or if your company is footing the bill. I travel to one or two conventions a year and usually tether to my phone’s connection for Wi-Fi, but I didn’t get a very good connection on the 37th floor and had to pony up $15 for one day of unlimited Wi-Fi. Even worse was that the two friends I shared the room with used my laptop when they needed to check their email. If I had Maryfi, I could have just shared my hotel connection with everyone in the room.
Maryfi can share any type of internet connection on the host computer; other Wi-Fi enabled devices can see and join the Maryfi hotspot which can be secured with WPA2 encryption. Another use is to setup Maryfi as a repeater for your home router — this can help you stretch connectivity to a device just outside your current Wi-Fi range.
Maryfi is a free ad-supported program for Windows 7 available from the developer link below.
Tim
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 10:51 AMSounds and looks a lot like Connectify, which has recently gone from Free to Freemium.
Pattus
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 12:43 PMI’ve used Connectify a lot too. The freemium update isn’t bad, just annoying things like Connectify- is appended broadcast ID, to your to get you to buy the better version. That said though I’ve stuck with the older version that had them for free.
dinesh
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 2:49 PMu could have used window7 hotspot so u can connect to more people Connectify is the same as basic hotspot in window 7 but some people donot know to connect so they download Connectify and use them
vince
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 4:45 AMthe mary-fi website seems to be down. Alternate download mirrors here
http://magos-biologis.blogspot.com/2011/09/maryfi-turn-your-wifi-equipped-laptop.html