A form of peer-to-peer wireless networking, Wi-Fi Direct devices can establish wireless connectivity with each other without requiring a wireless router, hot spot or access point. The access itself is ...

Wi-Fi is increasingly being used in consumer applications like video, audio, digital cameras. Wi-Fi Direct Connect lets Wi-Fi devices talk to one another. Wi-Fi, the IEEE 802.11 standard wireless ...

@spiff17, I'm no expert but AFAIK, ad-hoc still creates a single, weaker hotspot from one of your devices, which your other devices connect to. It's still the old router and client model whereas with ...

When the command executes, from the output, you’ll see the adapters are disconnected as you can see from the lead-in image above. Note that Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter and Microsoft Hosted ...

If your laptop has an LTE or 5G adapter and thus a fast Internet connection, you can use it as a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot to connect other devices in the vicinity to the Internet, such as your smartphone, ...