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Tuesday June 9, 2009
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 Dell has added the Intel "My WiFi" technology to three notebooks: the Studio 15, Studio 17, and the Studio XPS 16, the company said Tuesday.
What is My WiFi? Put simply, it's the combination of an Intel Centrino 2 platform as well as some associated Intel software that turns your Wi-Fi client into an access point, so that others might share a single Ethernet-based Internet connection.
The technology allows up to eight Wi-Fi devices and to share files
between them on a Centrino 2-based laptop running Windows Vista, according to Lionel Menchaca, who blogged about the addition for Dell.
"So what could do with My WiFi? If you're at a hotel and logged in for
broadband access, you could share your connection with other Wi-Fi
enabled laptops in a room, or transfer images from a Wi-Fi enabled
smartphone to your laptop," Menchaca wrote. "In the home networking side, you could use
it to print wirelessly or to share photos from your laptop directly to
a photo frame without having to transfer the images through a cable or
via an SD card. Pretty cool stuff."
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June 10, 2009 12:10 AM
Wow. You mean Dell laptops can now share a WiFi connection like Apple laptops have been able to do for YEARS now? That really is cool stuff.
June 11, 2009 2:11 AM
Nice stuff actually. IFF they make it easy to set up.
Increasingly I have multiple devices--at the very least a laptop and a cellphone that could use a Wifi boost and on which I can only watch video over Wifi. Yet I am NOT going to pay for broadband at the hotel more than once.
I'm personally using a Cradlepoint that can do this by itself, and supports 3G as well. But if I could do this without the extra hardware, even better.
June 23, 2009 6:01 AM
i have a public wifi near my house and my dell computer can connect to it thought wifi with full signal but my macbook cant get a signal from the public wifi. it has wifi, is it possible to connect the macbook to the dell so it uses the dells wifi internet connection.